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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 4
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      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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 4
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      This is the generic resilience debate that’s long overdue, via a “case study” that’s somewhere between a fire drill and the real SHTF thing. This is almost like the world itself is being administered a vaccine in the form of a partially deactivated crisis trigger.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 4
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      There will also be narrower conversation around pandemic response innovation: Touch-free built environment Rapid testing Agile vaccine development and deployment Social distancing based culture

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 4
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      Conversations that are possible but unlikely to happen First-response acute mental health management Chronic stress management at population scale Ultra-wealthy flight/exit culture (cost of billionaire bunkerism, which is unfortunately totally a real thing) “Microgrid” economics

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 4
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      I’m trying really hard to make a fair comparison to what I remember of SARS etc. Especially discounting for the effect of apocalypse larping by we the Very Online. This does feel different. It’s like living through a milquetoast Michael Crichton novel.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 4
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 4
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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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        2. vaughn tan‏ @vaughn_tan Mar 5
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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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        2. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 Mar 4
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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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        3. raVen Iona‏ @spiral_virus Mar 5
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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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        2. John ("Nec circus, nec simiae ...") Jainschigg‏ @jjainschigg Mar 5
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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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