Maybe this one will serve as a vaccine for the worldwide psyche so we get our act together before the Mad Maxer! Oh no wait, it's just serving as the perfect excuse for consolidation of power by authoritarians worldwide
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I don't see this happening right now: our governments are so far not assuming a lot more powers, they seem to be more worried about implementing necessary measures out of fear of losing support. I think it's true that we need more accountable and more effective governance.
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We're still getting started though. This could get fairly bad still. In particular, how do we get out?
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I am not particularly worried (although I might not personally survive this). It's not threatening our species. In the worst case, we end up with a few million dead until we have effective treatments, in the best case, we will get rid of most respiratory infections by next year.
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This is just the dress rehearsal.
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Agree, we have many more tools for dealing with this and rapid citizen-level global communication which gave us the heads-up
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Yes, this mild pandemic may inoculate our systems (Healthcare, etc) against a worse pandemic.
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Wait for it
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Experts long told us that nuke explosions in our lifetime would be a matter of when, not if. Somehow I imagined it would mean everyone dying or living underground, and breakdown of civil order. After the first crisis I’ll be grateful for how things turn out if only this many die.
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Yes! This could be much, much worse. <still keeping my fingers crossed that our luck holds>
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