This last and current one is but another example of how we live in a just-in-time world with centralized production, off shoring of all sorts of finished items and components, combined with supply chain foul-ups, stuck ships at ports in the Suez Canal, and not enough truck drivers, cooks, dishwashers, construction workers and, in Seattle, concrete.
While I personally work to promote disaster resilience, the world we live in is making that very difficult due to many different factors. We have converted to a “one world” economy where our linkages create strengths like cost savings and weaknesses, like dependencies.
Having only a few manufacturers of baby formula means that when only one plant that makes the formula is offline, we come up short nationally.