wish there was a way to see financial damage the way you can see maps of forest fires or bomb damage from wars... covid is such a physically bloodless catastrophe it's really hard to see the extreme invisible damage
These update every month right? There's also probably a 2.0 version of the "Misery Index", which prev was the unemployment * inflation, but both are dated measures.
Ah, so like anything on a balance sheet? Or just CapEx? Reminds me of the data those old coin collecting books would have "1944 (P) Steel Penny, Double Lincoln Head: 10K extent"
Just generally how things fit into the world-machine and the societal value of saving them. Like on a walk recently we saw a closed indie cafe. Wife was upset, I was like “meh, Starbucks will survive and if this dies, not a big deal.” How to make such discussions more rigorous?