RE:RE:RE:RE:Excuse me!Makes me wonder whether it is some other supply chain disruption in lab supplies or equipment. Surely there are lab techs available or who can be trained.
In decades of dabbling in exploration speculation I can’t recall any assays from October drilling unavailable by mid-February. This is bad for the whole mining industry. Four months? Wow.
So much has been offshored from Canada. No more vaccine production labs, no more manufacturing of many household items or their critical components. Just the other day I heard GM and Ford car plants in Ontario will have to slow production due to computer chip shortages, even though they expect good demand - the chips all made in Taiwan and Korea in high capex, large facilities, they dominate world production, and they have had slowdowns in their supply chain as well, ripples of disruption.
I’m a globalist not because of economic efficiency, although that may be a great effect, but because of basic fairness in people around the world all being allowed to participate, but most importantly I believe global interdependence fosters communication and helps prevent conflict and war, the worst scourge of humanity. If the price of peace is a moderate reduction in my standard of living, I’m for that, the pain and suffering and death from war is inexcusably primitive behaviour for mankind. So we sometimes will see these disruptions ... there is a theory about the rise and fall of civilizations, that in order to maintain increasing production to satisfy both the greed of the rich and the stability of the working masses, the system must become more complex over time, until it fails due to lack of resilience and flexibility to accommodated unexpected environmental changes. As in global climate cycles or biological epidemics affecting plants, animals or people. Sound like the wheel is turning at its usual inexorable, unstoppable pace?
The outfall from Covid is being clouded by the amount of government subsidy but there is a lot of disruption all over, and an incredible amount of money supply expansion to counter - faster than at any time since WW2. It is a war out there until Pfizer or Moderna and friends get into our arms, and the teeming billions of the less developed nations who have become incubation populations for variants that might have life for a long time, which is pretty daunting if some of those variants turn out resistant to this primary vaccine cycle. If it turns out this allmstarted because of a lab error in Wuhan, people around the world are going to be disappointed in China to say the least. Even it the wet market story is true, we still have reason to be upset that they failed to move faster in the critical first weeks - especially in sharing what they knew with the WHO so international travel could have been stopped faster.
Ha. No news leaves time to BS around the water cooler for me.
cg