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Hmm. So by the time we have normalcy, the US will have lost ~600k people. This is like an American exceptionalism IPO valuation in deaths. In fact it’s a world wide governance system IPO festival. There’s never been such a valuation event in history.
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This is startling to read — there is a potential path to get to “a nearly normal Thanksgiving next year,” given progress in vaccination. So difficult to see that right now — just heard NPR story projecting additional 250K deaths in US by March… washingtonpost.com/health/covid-v
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The Spanish Flu was more a globally local internal valuation event. Without a vaccine endgame, there is no IPO. Only a contingent march to herd immunity with no meaningful comparisons possible.
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Next pandemic live-read. Pale Rider, by Laura Spinney, about the Spanish Flu. I'm relentless. amzn.to/2Fg1TaI
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