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Why are tech people freaking out about coronavirus? (10mohstech.substack.com)
3 points by lmetro 2320 days ago
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The intelligent ones aren't freaking out but are computing

* economic impact of fear of a pandemic

* economic impact of shutdown of > 60,000,000 people in china to the rest of the world

* economic impact of panic of people not educated enough to judge real risk of becoming infected

* media inertia

* china specific cover-up tendency

* actions in china

* 2nd and 3rd derivative effects of fear of a pandemic (i.e. delayed/missing deliveries of required medicines)

* fear-caused outage of food etc., since the delivery chain may collapse if fear raises into a critical level

etc.pp.

In other words: from my POV (and my peers), nobody really fears the virus itself but the effect it causes to the social environment.

I fear the virus itself. Not so much for me as I'm healthy but it could easily take out my 80 something parents.