From a reader:
I've commented to a few others about my perceptions, exactly the same as in the article above.
This is a major reason I suspect that your "Wuhan" virus is my "Ft Detrick" virus -- that the US bioweapons people created it and released it overseas to make it look like it came from there, to cover the criminal failure and looting of our one-percenters, who have wrecked our economy with their policies of peasant labor in across the Rio Grande, skilled labor deported overseas, create a financialization economy to replace our once-unrivaled manufacturing economy, no taxes or penalties for hi-tech, banks, wall street etc.
I was interested in getting a phone with good privacy, the Librem, but they can't say when it will be available because they can't get parts.
My laptop is dying too, and I looked into the Dell XPS 13, but guess what? Six week lead time because of supply chain issues, and they won't even commit to six weeks.

Its really is getting bad, but this is what happens when you outsource everything to slavers to save a few bucks. Outsourcing to China has been hiding true inflation.