Covid-19 impact rings
1. Direct illness/death
2. Secondary due to overloaded healthcare
3. Primary economic impact (lost labor time)
4. Secondary: supply chain
5. Tertiary: demand collapse (service, travel, events)
6. Institutional: fragile ones collapse
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I’m suspicious of apocalyptic thinking but does feel like we’re in a fire drill for entering a serious evolutionary bottleneck
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How worried are you about a case of general institutional collapse here in the US? i.e., Widespread infections in healthcare workers, police render them inoperable, political blowback and infected officials/legislators fragment government, etc. How probable does this look to you?
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What happens when Fedex, Amazon and garbage-disposal workers come down with this thing?
Definitely a fire drill for worse.
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Stress and anxiousness impact on health,economy and even violence (people fighting over food,masks,etc)





