what do mass protest gatherings mean for coronavirus containment lol?
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yea funny how it works. Portugal will have one too bc everyone is flooding the beaches lol
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second order consequences re: different countries having different rates of recovery will be interesting to watch. Sad in terms of human cost, but truly the greatest natural human experiment perhaps of all time
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feels like there’s a good chance that the Greatest Country In The World is going to be one of the last to recover. If that happens: how they face up to that will determine so much subsequently
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Not only one of the last to recover, but one of the only ones to have extreme social unrest hit *before* any 2nd order effects like rising food prices/persistent shortages kick in.
If those also hit in full, I can only shudder for friends in the US.
Yup. If/when the rest of the world recovers better than the US does, the US is going to have to face that the same way the USSR had to face the superiority of US supermarkets. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say it led to the collapse of the USSR... blog.chron.com/thetexican/201
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