I’ve had this nagging sense that something is not even wrong about the views (single-use weltenschauungs?) being applied to the pandemic: as a health or economic crisis. Both frames are wrong, because both presume a fundamentally intact (if stressed) civilizational tech stack.
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Two possibilities: 1. There really were deep reserves of serendipity in the 2-stack system and this really is a well-timed and “lucky” (for some values of “lucky”) smooth changeover. 2. The integration test is failing in all sorts of invisible ways. It’s a house of cards.
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I’m betting the answer is 2. There’s going to be a huge pile of crap in the log file of this integration test to sort through. Full rollback is impossible, but we’ll do a lot of local, partial rollbacks/reverts to the old stack while we fix this in production.
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In a way this is the other side of the yin-yang. Pre-covid was the old stack with patches of localized new stack units. The rollback will be new stack with patches of old stack units. It will be an unholy mess that will take a decade to cleanup.
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So if this hypothesis is correct, the reboot problem is a tech problem: how to finish the unfinished stack that has been hot-swapped in? I think if the economic approach aims at this problem, it will “take” otherwise it will not, and trigger a secondary larger technology crisis.
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By which I don’t mean a tech market crisis like the dotcom bust, I mean an actual tech crisis like Y2K. But way harder.
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No. Looks like this was planned.https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
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