[TrackerFF]

It's a good lesson for those that naively think the world is (largely) uncoupled, where you can shut down / remove one part, and nothing around it is affected.

I remember talking with some ex-colleague of mine some 3 months ago, just before the pandemic hit us (where I live, that is) - we were talking about how this would impact business, and to my big surprise he was very cool about the situation. I had to remind him that he (working in marketing, living in a tourist city) was only approximately two edges away from the businesses most in danger of getting pummeled by the virus.

But, no, it was only "hysteria". Lo and behold, 6 weeks later he's temporarily laid off, because the businesses he's making ads for are closing down, because they again were supplying stuff to the travel industry, among others.

And we're going to see a lot more of that, in the upcoming months. The reach is wide, and the aftershock is long.

[asdff]

And these same people think they will just be hired right away and things will spool right back up. With nearly 40 million people claiming unemployment. Things that took years to build crumbled in weeks. It will take years again.

[mensetmanusman]

I wonder about the alternative timeline scenario where America didn’t have such high levels of the pre-existing conditions that make covid deadly (>98% of covid deaths in MA are due to/with preexisting conditions).