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A major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant was severely damaged after a deadly tornado ripped through North Carolina on Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunate? Yes. Do I feel bad for Pfizer? No. For their employees? Yes.

Should a company with as much capital have redundancy in their manufacturing facilities to the point that “shortages” are nearly unthinkable? Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is the problem with just in time supply chains

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Destruction such as this will never again be uncommon.

This as a sneak preview not many years into the future, when there'll be no workable supply chains at all, as climate change wreaks hellish havoc everywhere, consistently.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If your dicky don't ticky that's tricky