To me, meat consumption is a much more likely victim. Pandemics are caused by high-density livestock. Once everyone understands the costs, I don't think people will think meat is worth it. COVID-19 = Meat Market 1918 Spanish Flu = Slaughterhouse H1N1 = Chicken Swine Flu = Pork
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I hope you’re right, but I doubt it. This will be blamed on exotic meats only, (with some justification), and traditional factory farming will just face more regulation. Plant-based proteins are a promising development but so far don’t seem on a trajectory to displace meat
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Recency bias. This isn't the first pandemic. Spanish flu didn't change people wanting to move to cities.
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They didn’t have the choices we do now tho
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personally i’m extremely pleased to have half a dozen groceries, four liquor stores and like eight pharmacies within easy walking distance for quick sorties. i don’t suddenly want to use a car for any of that
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furthermore we should bring back nuclear
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Have you heard of Japan?
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or south korea, with like a huge city handling it better than rural italy.
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Asian countries apparantly have no problem with it, so I doubt it. Aren’t econ benefits too high? Everyone’s acting like they can keep up 24/7 zoom meetings indefinitely, when people are fraying already.
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Do you think that will apply to Western cultures though?
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