Disruption Escalates: Proctor And Gamble Says Over 17,000 Products Potentially Impacted By Coronavirus

Via ZeroHedge

While mom and dad on Main St. still aren’t getting the dire warning that the coronavirus has been offering up to Asia and the rest of the Eastern world over the last several weeks, perhaps a lightbulb will finally go off when Jane Q. Public heads to the grocery store and is unable to buy shampoo and toothpaste.

Proctor and Gamble, one of the world’s biggest “everyday product” manufacturers, has now officially warned that 17,600 of its products could be affected and disrupted by the coronavirus. The company’s CFO, Jon Moeller, said at a recent conference that P&G used 387 suppliers across China, shipping more than 9,000 materials, according to CIPS.org.

Moeller said: “Each of these suppliers faces their own challenges in resuming operations.”

And it’s not just everyday consumer goods that are going to feel the impact of the virus.

Smartphones and cars are so far among the consumer products that have been hardest hit from the virus. In fact, according to TrendForce, “forecasts for product shipments from China for the first quarter of 2020 had been slashed, by 16% for smartwatches (to 12.1m units), 12.3% for notebooks (30.7m units) and 10.4% for smartphones (275m units). Cars have dropped 8.1% (19.3m units).”

Their report states: “The outbreak has made a relatively high impact on the smartphone industry because the smartphone supply chain is highly labor-intensive. Although automakers can compensate for material shortage through overseas factories, the process of capacity expansion and shipping of goods is still expected to create gaps in the overall manufacturing process.”

A separate coronavirus analysis by Mintec says that “Chinese demand for copper (it has hitherto been responsible for consuming half the world’s output), will fall by 500,000 tonnes this year, and falls in demand have already impacted prices. From December to January the price of copper fell 9.6%.”

The report notes: “Millions of people have been affected by the travel lockdown in Hubei province, the centre of the outbreak. This has been responsible for a glut of jet fuel and diesel on global markets at a time when petroleum supplies were already abundant.”

Other products that have been negatively affected so far include pork, which is up 11% this month, chicken, garlic and dried ginger.

Product supply chain issues could eventually compound hysteria at supermarkets if coronavirus becomes widespread in western countries. Northern Italy, which has seen a small outbreak of coronavirus cases over the last 48 hours, is already experiencing long lines and sold out store shelves.

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M G
M G

I KNEW I should have bought another big package of Toilet Paper.

gman
gman

what, you didn’t already ten years ago?

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow

OMG “only” 275 million new smart phones! We’re doomed… Chip

Ginger
Ginger

I need more information on Kobe and his daughter.

M G
M G

I agree Ginger. I am not sure I can get thru another article that doesn’t even mention the devastating loss to humanity.

Let us see if my tablet clears the filter.

PAULA
PAULA

Lol.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

I learned everything about his wife when it only took an 8 carat diamond to placate her after him getting caught chasing hookers while on the road.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

TN.
And she dresses like a hooker as well. Wonder if there’s a connection.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I know, right!

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2

How about this information on Kobe – he was a fucking rapist!

Ghost

I may stop by the Dollar General and pick up more toilet paper.

mark
mark

Don’t forget the fluffy sponges and disposable gloves in case we go into Sudden Death Overtime…just in case your stack of old magazines runs out too…

Magazines are good for the heavy swiping…but re-washable sponges will be the closer for the detailed work.

Ghost

Don’t you just hate the modern SLICK magazines? They literally are not good for shit.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

booh

Ghost

https://youtu.be/4vzFeiKH1jQ

2:50 to hear Gates say vaccines are population control.

MTD
MTD

Speaking of vaccines, I assume at least a few readers here are aware of some of the books written by that patron saint of vaccines, Jonas Salk. If you haven’t heard of any of his books, just type in his name on Amazon and you’ll see some of the titles. He was all about population control, etc. He openly talked about how vaccines could be used to sterilize people. Just further proof that so many of the revered people of the last 100 years or more were total scumbags.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Mark – Too bad Sears and Monkey Ward went out of business. One of their catalogs would last for a long time.

Uncola

Coronavirus: China to boost mass surveillance machine, experts say

KEY POINTS

The Chinese government has enlisted the help of technology companies to create products to help contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Technologies from drones to facial recognition are being used to track people.

Experts told CNBC that the ramp up in surveillance could continue even after the virus is contained.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut

Government certainly isn’t gonna let this crisis go to waste

Doctor de Vaca

Good time to unshackle ourselves from the Chicoms and bring our manufacturing back home.

Fedup
Fedup

Yeah, we’ll go full circle at that point.
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TN Patriot
TN Patriot

It is, but they will only move it to Viet Nam, India or some other country with cheap labor.

22winmag - TBP's top-secret Yankee Mormon

Trump was touring India… YESTERDAY.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

AMAZING coincidence, isn’t it?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

I would consider it a blessing in disguise.

Globalism is a horrible idea. Shiny baubles.

yahsure
yahsure

It just shows a portion of the jobs that were shipped off for cheap labor.

Ghost

Again: what you see below is a letter from a physician appearing on an opinion blog, not a news report. Read it with that in mind.

The whole article is at https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/china-apocalypse-buddhist-prophecy-locusts/

Now, to the Doctor’s latest dispatch:

I am very sorry this took so long – I wanted to make it as thoughtful as I possibly could. Much has happened in the past few days. The USA is in the grip of a 2nd wave of influenza – and I have been profoundly busy the past few days because of this. People who comment about epidemics and the fact that influenza is much worse here in the USA are not making that up – this is a particularly bad year – but what is happening in China is really just as bad if not worse – and I am beginning to really despair that we here in America are just having this whole thing really downplayed by our media and leaders.

**** So here is the update on multiple fronts.

First of all my wife’s family.

Her father has still not been heard of — now approaching a month.

No words can express my wife’s grieving. I am running out of ways to help her cope.

Her brother and his family are still in their upper floor apartment in a major metro area — not Wuhan. The martial law and lockdown continue.

****They have not left their apartment in about 3 weeks.

Food is delivered to them twice a week. There is no end in sight at this time.

****The family immediately across the hall was forcibly removed about 3 days ago because one of them was sick.

My wife is concerned about their mental health – but so far they are staying healthy.

Her mother remains under in home quarantine in her apartment in a small city on the Western frontier. She seems to be fully recovered. She is eating rice that she has had piled up in her apartment for just such a reason – and refuses to eat any food that is brought to her door. This city is in the middle of a vast agricultural area. Hogs, cows and chickens are a staple of their economy. My mother-in-law has told us that the “death stench” has permeated her city the past week or so and getting worse daily. She cannot even open her windows. Why? No one is going to work – and no one is taking care of the livestock. No shipments of grain are coming in for the animals — and throughout the land the animals are starving in the pastures. The bodies by the hundreds of thousands are just laying in the sun and rotting. All this while the industrialized part of China is beginning to have severe food shortages. Something in my doctor brain is telling me that having millions of people so close to rotting animals cannot be good. What could possibly go wrong?

And about the locusts. This is becoming an ever more important part of my wife’s Mandarin news feed every day. Vast clouds of locusts made it to Xinjiang (the furthest west Chinese province) last week. The videos are amazing. The Mandarin news is showing the government deployment of these gigantic fire throwers that lay waste to not only the locusts but all the land in the path of the fire. Huge bursts of fire blow out from them and they truly look like something that would be appropriate to accompany the Four Horsemen. Today we learned that the locusts have now arrived very close to the western border of Gansu province. Gansu is part of the ancient Chinese homeland and is a huge producer of wheat and rice. If this swarm gets started up, it will be a huge blow to China and their psyche. The CCP has now ordered that every live chicken in China is to be immediately dispatched to the western border, where they will be released to eat the locusts. To everyone who thinks this is not a huge problem — think about the decision being made. Take away eggs and meat for the people who are already angry — to stop the locusts. The CCP must have data that this locust swarm is going to become a disaster unless stopped immediately, no matter what the cost.

Again – all anecdotal at this time — but this bears watching.

Last week, the FDA stated that it expects the medical supply line to be affected by the China crisis. I would like to hear from physicians and other medical personnel who read this blog. Does what the Doctor says toward the end of his dispatch resonate with your experiences?

If what the Doctor predicts about drug supplies comes true, then coronavirus will have destroyed globalization. No country can allow its critical manufacturing to be outsourced.

Again: what you just read is a letter from a physician appearing on an opinion blog, not a news report. Read it with that in mind.

gman
gman

“The CCP has now ordered that every live chicken in China is to be immediately dispatched to the western border”

what, mail them?

MTD
MTD

So it’s basically a draft for chickens! Just imagine the tearful scenes at the train stations, bus stations, etc as the owners hug their chickens and wish them luck in what will eventually be known as the Great Locust War of 2020. Some gave all, all gave some.

Paulita
Paulita

Locust war and the chickens commit hairy carey

23 Vamoose (EC)
23 Vamoose (EC)

Is your carey hairy?

gman
gman

“Just imagine the tearful scenes at the train stations, bus stations, etc as the owners hug their chickens and wish them luck”

it’s china, they just might do exactly that.

23 Vamoose (EC)
23 Vamoose (EC)

Have you hugged your chicken today, gman?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

I thought eating insects was the new veganism? Better to send every hungry person in China to the western border. Bring your wok!

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Maggie – Very interesting article. I was wondering how the shortage of fentanyl would affect the drug addicts and it was covered in the T A C article.

After seeing the empty shelf pictures coming out of Milan Italy, I am beginning to think I may need to make another grocery run to stock up on the staples. I should be covered for 60 days, or so, but may need to double it for safety sake. I have some teenage grandsons that can eat some groceries.

BTW – Today is Tuesday, if you are going to post a twofer.

gman
gman

“the impact of the virus”

rather the impact of the panic.

CharleyC

Surprise!??? How did anyone think it was going to work out when America started importing everything it needed to survive?
Just my little conspiracy theory but it would not surprise me to find that the Corona virus was paid for by the democrats in a last ditch effort to tank the economy. Prove me wrong!!

gman
gman

“How did anyone think it was going to work out when America started importing everything it needed to survive?”

oh everyone knew this would happen. remember buchanan and perot in the 1990’s? they ran entire presidential campaigns on exactly this subject. everyone knew. and all the corporations off-shored, and all the economists said “progressive globalism good, patriotic mercantilism bad”, and most of the consumers bought cheap chinese, and most of the politicians said everything was A-OK. and now here we are.

the real issue is, if china does a total face-plant, can they recover? can we recover? in my opinion, no, for both – the entire system is just too JIT and just too marginal and just too debt-burdened to recover from any major shock. so whatever you’re gonna stock up on you might want to do it now – if for some bizarre reason you haven’t already done so.

22winmag - TBP's top-secret Yankee Mormon

Piss off.

Whole nations and corporations are lining up for welfare.

Right on cue.

gman
gman

they may line up for welfare money, but there’ll be little to buy.

flash
flash

17,000 products that used to provide jobs for working Americans., but muh free market capitalism knew better.

gman
gman

it was not free market capitalism that put us in this position. it was deliberate tribal warfare sabotage.

Anonymous
Anonymous

ha ha ha …you have another definition of companies leaving the US seeking cheap foreign labor abroad? See your problem, turd polisher, is you don’t factor labor in muh free market equation. Don’t bother answering. I already know you drank the koolade, chump

gman
gman

“Don’t bother answering”

the tribal sabotage operative knows what I’m talking about.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

I would like to know where in the world you think there is a free market.

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