The significance of the fact that any person can end up anywhere else on earth in a matter of hours is obvious. But just as significant is the idea that because of the global supply chain and the just-in-time-delivery practices affecting nearly all products and components, the impact of a pandemic will be far greater than one of similar virulence would have been in the past. As just one example, we may have among the world’s best medical infrastructures in the United States, but virtually all of our generic lifesaving pharmaceuticals are manufactured overseas. Let’s say there is a major
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