If you think the market had a bad reaction sending stocks to crash over the last few days over new lockdowns, you have no idea the chaos that has been enacted on the global supply chain. For several months conditions have severely worsen, but many were expecting disruptions to calm down and operations to come back to normal after the winter. That hope has been successfully crushed by the emergence on the "nu variant"  strain. Asian countries a key exporter of goods into the US and other trading partners have already started to impose new port shutdowns, work restrictions and factory closures to stop the spread of this new variant. Some executives are worried we are about to see a repeat of 2020, when mandatory shutdowns disrupted the entire supply chain.