"Consequently, the [[US]] had to pay exorbitant prices to [[China]]—**the country where the brilliant architects of globalization concentrated nearly all of the manufacturing of these essential items**—in order to secure airlifts of inadequate amounts of protective equipment just to prevent hospital closures in the midst of a pandemic." ([Location 4229](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=4229)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[pandemic]], [[COVID-19]], [[globalisation]], [[manufacturing]] **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]