Compensated for if the United States was capable of importing lead from other countries but this isn’t possible for two reasons. First, COVID-19 has stalled the ability for shipments of any kind making its way across country borders for fear of spreading the disease. Second, COVID-19 has caused extreme tension between the US and China, who the United States is reliant on for the importation of lead. Politicians have adopted rhetoric that aims at Americans’ frustrations at China, calling COVID-19, “the China virus”. This narrative that COVID-19 is the fault of the Chinese has been substantiated by policies that heavily tax goods imported from China.
COVID-19 has created global hostility and political turmoil that can be felt on both on a macroscopic scale through policies and a microscopic scale through niche markets like the digital multimeters