I’m guessing 10 more weeks before we see the first signs of economy reboot. This is going to get really brutal. I’m not seeing any historical comparable for what we’re headed for. Not WW2, not the Great Depression, not the Spanish Flu. This is a totally sui generis cataclysm.
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I agree it's unlikely to be over 1% of the population. But I think people will view deaths from Corona more like they viewed deaths from 9/11. There is a specific ongoing threat of infectious disease that we didn't fight well enough, and it is a particular tragedy.
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Again the “we”... I for example *didn’t* view 9/11 that way, and like half the country, was against half the policy response (wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) and was skeptical of the other half (homeland security theater and curtailment of civil liberties).
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