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Starting to think there’s an outside chance this could snowball to much worse than Spanish flu due to immune attack capability... we’ve been operating under baseless assumption that this can’t be worse than 1918, but that ignores fact that there’s more that can go wrong in 2020
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But in general... we have more ways things could go wrong as 2nd/3rd order effects - nuclear war - grid failure (1918 was barely electrified) - lots more complex tech systems dependent on the knowledge of critical architects with weak succession planning
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