Well, when people run out, it then will be Baby Boom 2.0 ("we ran out of stuff to watch on Netflix"), with the thereby resurging global human population (net of losses) pulling the global economy out of a depression with a 1950's U.S. style era of growth and prosperity.
And if the condom factories get retasked to making latex gloves, then that will further exacerbate the condom shortage:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...un-out-of-gloves-as-plants-curbed-in-lockdown
In both articles, we see how government edicts, along with the underlying viral outbreaks themselves, impact the continuing supply-chain disruptions. Malaysian government shutdown/reduction orders have at least temporarily impacted both condom and glove production.
And, critically, the article about gloves suggests that glove production will be applied first to local needs before supplying the rest of the world economy.
The just-in-time, global "we are all one big happy global community" network continues to be fractured by the pandemic and government reactions thereto. Calls to restore what will be deemed to be critical (medical exam gloves in particular here but also really condoms, too) in-country industrial capacity are being heard not only in the US. Of course, one still has to be able to obtain the underlying raw materials.
