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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uhh, there was this thing called AIDS... I suspect some in some communities remember that... The fact that you forgot suggests something of how ephemeral these things really are.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Y1v5gVvWc …
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I agree HIV/AIDS triggered elements of this effect but I wonder if the lower transmission barrier for coronavirus is enough of a difference to invoke a response at a greater order of magnitude, such as that described in the tread. But ya we forget quick.
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one of the more significant aspects of this is how unremarkable the effects of the virus are for most people. it's like something designed to have difficult-to-comprehend effects on systemic risk.
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and testing for it becomes difficult when you can't estimate the prevalence or accurately evaluate anyone's prior risk
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Everybody in West Africa (and elsewhere) lives with constant pressure of malaria (and other diseases and conditions). Everybody who's sexually active does with HIV (and other diseases and conditions). This scenario isn't unique beyond the fact of its being global and airborne.
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those two differences create the unique scenario. Airborne makes effects global. Global invokes a scale of interruption to the meta stability of vital complex systems that is many orders of magnitude greater than regional disruption.
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