the supply-chain crisis

Have you been keeping up with the supply-chain crisis? At Instapundit, the issue lately has been boiling down to "Where is Pete Buttigieg, head of the Department of Transportation, when you need him most?" Buttigieg seems to be an absentee landlord these days, and supply ships are anchored offshore, close to but not at the US port cities where they ought to be offloading their wares. This isn't just an American problem, either. Here's what I wrote in a comment at Instapundit:

A Korean buddy of mine who deals with international business told me about the supply-chain crisis months ago, long before it became big news in the US. He mentioned the example of McDonald's branches in Korea that could no longer sell french fries because the American potatoes needed for the fries (McD's has corporate standards, after all; can't use Korean taters) weren't coming in. I ordered from McDonald's the other day, and while I got my fries, my burgers didn't have any lettuce because of a domestic (i.e., in Korea) supply-chain crisis. I realize how stupid it sounds not to think of a problem as real and relevant until it's right in front of your nose, but here we are. The problem is real; it's not going away, and it's arguably more serious of an issue than COVID. My buddy was a bellwether months ago, and the chickens are definitely coming home to roost.

The Korean buddy in question is the one-and-only JW. He did indeed give me the heads-up about this months ago. Has the time come to follow the logic of preppers? Maybe I ought to be stocking up on the necessities, raiding the local camping stores for dried goods, ordering Mountain House food by the bucketful from Amazon while I still can.