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    1. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 26 Apr 2020

      The virus has disrupted: - K-12 - bars - cities - retail - sports - hotels - airlines - offices - colleges - subways - concerts - medicine - Hollywood - immigration - conferences - supply chains - meat packing - movie theaters - aircraft carriers Do you think it all snaps back?

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    2. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 26 Apr 2020

      Balaji Srinivasan Retweeted Neeraj K. Agrawal

      Many of the foundational assumptions and/or economics of these sectors have changed forever. Pandemic insurance will be expensive. Digital alternatives will rise. And we may be just at the start. In other words, I like @NeerajKA but disagree with this: https://twitter.com/neerajka/status/1254546852445372421?s=21 …https://twitter.com/NeerajKA/status/1254546852445372421 …

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      Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA
      Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I think everything is going to go back to pretty much exactly how it was when all this is done. No big changes
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @balajis @NeerajKA

      Economics of all this will change, for sure. But let's say we get a solid vaccine and are unconstrained. (Otherwise, who knows?). Definite possibility that there will a massive outpouring of demand for all the freewheeling, crowded YOLO. Existential events do that. Roaring 20s.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @balajis @NeerajKA

      I saw people discussing how parents will now realize that they can teach their kids more via homeschooling, and won't want glorified babysitting that is school. Other option: people will embrace the "glorified babysitting" with every ounce of their being and never complain again.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @balajis @NeerajKA

      In sociology, there is a concept called "latent function"—pretty obvious. Schools don't just teach facts/skills (manifest function); they socialize and babysit. Shock makes latent function explicit: and you might be tempted to assume manifest function was all people want. Nope.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @balajis @NeerajKA

      The coronavirus makes some things that anyone who studied the institution knew kinda explicit to most everyone. Okay. It could be an opportunity to reshuffle or jettison some of the latent functions. But it's not true that the latent functions are irrelevant or unnecessary.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Apr 2020
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      I don't know how anything will go anymore than anyone else (vaccine? endemic? who knows?). But it's completely plausible to me that the latent functions plus the unavailable options will come back roaring, with enormous demand while we rarely speak of COVID again, a la 1918 flu.

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