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There is a real question here about whether we can sustain the sort of sprawling, interconnected, JIT supply chain that has been set up in the last 20 years and also whether our international travel patterns are sustainable.

The speed with which COVID-19 got to pretty much everywhere is stunning. If the death rate was more in line with, eg, the Black Death it would be interesting to see what happened to food & other supplies in the major cities.

Hopefully there is some principle that a virus can't jump between species that is both infectious, deadly and slow to show symptoms after becoming infectious.