I also learned that ICU care is as simple as it is brutally traumatic. It is the body being manipulated at laws-of-physics level rather than advanced pharmacology. Pressure, volume, oxygen, nutrients, excreta. The biochemistry is brute force carpet bombing, not smart bombs.
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The human body is a finely tuned and delicate piece of equipment. It’s not built to withstand such brutal intervention for long. We rely on our brains to create a narrow comfort range around ourselves.
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The body politic is also the same. QE is like ventilator support Oxygen is reliable news Pressure regulation is logistics Etc etc. Not a fan of social organism metaphors for advanced stuff but at ICU first principles level it seems to work.
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I like this idea but can you define “the ICU”? (Was China was “in the ICU” 1840s-1970s and so we shouldn’t expect recovery until the year 3000 or so?) (Was Germany in the ICU only 1942-46, or 1933-45? Or 1917-51?)
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However you define it, I’m not sure the West is in the ICU quite yet. Extremely ill, yes, but not yet in critical. For example: Britain’s *constitutional order* has been in the ICU for 3 years, but so far there has been very little social disruption, merely a political farce.
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The USSR got shanked by the West as it was walking out of the hospital.
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And they’re returning the favor now
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Solid analogy, can we extend it to time spent while injured tho?
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But before going to urgent care, sorry forgot to clarify
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Weatern economies can’t defy the law of gravity for ever. SHTF soon.https://youtu.be/3WclYu5l4G0
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Broadly agree, but the speaker is an EM asset manager. Will talk his book.
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