Why are tech people freaking out about coronavirus?
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Why are tech people freaking out about coronavirus?
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Re: Why are tech people freaking out about coronavirus?
#2The 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.
Re: Why are tech people freaking out about coronavirus?
#3The 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. delaye…
I fear the virus itself. Not so much for me as I'm healthy but it could easily take out my 80 something parents.