Just got a notice from my parts supplier in Shenzhen.
All businesses in Shenzhen, China's manufacturing hub, are closed effective immediately for an indefinite period. That includes all shipping companies including FedEx. NOTHING is going in or out of the most important manufacturing hub in the world right now, and there is no timeframe on when it may reopen.
Supposedly, this is due to a Coronavirus outbreak. We all know that reason is crap. I suspect the invasion of Taiwan is about to begin. Can't think of any other event big enough to warrant this.
Just thought I would pass along the information in case anyone had any doubts.
Their argument is that it's to prevent it from continuing to spread further and then that leading to overwhelming their hospital services and things like that. And they argue that if you let it spread more than about here, it just continues exponentially like infections do, and you can't get it down again. Their covid policy in China is literally called the "Zero Covid Policy" so they are striving to have essentially 0 covid cases, which 0.00046% essentially is. So those are their arguments and policy.