When this is all over, the question will be how to beef up things that collapsed under the stress. There will be calls to: Nationalize things that fail Privatize things that fail Distribute manufacturing more Distribute inventory more Distribute money more Distribute time more
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It’s also very different from both 9/11 and Berlin Wall fall from what I can remember. Those were very human stories of extended impact. Here the star is a virus and the response after will be a reconsideration of the human-nature relationship, not human-human.
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It’s likely that there really is no living memory of something like this. People still alive (100+) who lived through Spanish Flu would have been babies in 1917-20.
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The attenuated feeling of this crisis is uncanny, hollow. It’s a pandemic. But just a cold. But it may kill millions of people. Masks don’t work. You’ve been washing your hands wrong. Cancel your travel plans. The president is a paper mache masked carnival king. Stay calm. Worry.
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It’s a pageant. A masque.
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Nothing like SARS. SARS was mostly a spooky story used to scare kids into being less sticky. It killed less than a thousand globally and, at least in my PWN hometown, was shrugged off as not really a risk.
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Yeah, same in Michigan/NY where I was
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Shit I did think of Andromeda Strain recently
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