In early February I was asked to prepare a roadmap of a sort for U.S. rotational molders based on 1) my years of research tracking developments in this business and 2) my background in economics. I prepared and submitted the following piece later that month, with publication scheduled for mid-April. In the interim the U.S. economy and virtually every other economy around the world have been impacted in some way by the coronavirus emanating from Wuhan, China. The advance of the virus has been rapid and virulent; as of this writing there have been over 2,401,400 global cases and over 165,042 deaths reported (which no doubt will have increased by the time this is published). Here in the United States certain regions of the country have become epicenters. Concern among federal, state, and local governments has led to calls for lockdowns, and there is universal cautioning against transmitting the virus to vulnerable segments of the population. The U.S. Congress has passed into law several bills to alleviate this growing economic and humanitarian crisis.
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