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I think being sure to be balanced is important.  So, careful with wording where you are explicit when some things are still open for debate. Don't be afraid to be a little ‎contrarian in your writing, such as at the beginning where you state that the severity is quite bad but many of these statistics are seemingly changing on a weekly basis. In any event, it served as a good set-up. For your assessment.  

I think a section on your opinion as to how to make the global supply chains more resilient would be ‎great. I might like a little more explanation as to your conclusion that whole supply chains should shut down simultaneously when something bad occurs. This seems to be a call for tighter SC integration amongst often competing firms (at least in the west). This may be too much to ask them, as individual companies may still try to figure ways to keep supply going opportunisitically.  I know from my days at GM, we never would let the line shut down for instance, it was so costly. So, we would find ways to keep it working, even if it meant shipping a tiny amount of material via very expensive air freight. So, I wonder if those best practices can just suddenly be unwound due to an outbreak across whole supply chains? 

I think the move to local may make sense, but global people flows and contemporary cities seem to suggest, at least to me, that we don't want to just eat or buy local, we wish to engage with a plethora of products.  I wonder too if these local busineses ‎have the scale / can scale-up fast enough to repsond to new local demand? It seemed that you mentioned that they may be somewhat shielded albeit need materials from abroad, but I also wonder if these small organizations can get access to funding. Do they really want more credit to build local scale? Just some more food for thought.