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The virus itself would be inconvenient mostly, and deadly to a few more than might have died otherwise. The economic ramifications of broken supply chains, populations out of work, and factories that have still not started up in China will be felt for some time. While panic is not a good response to any situation, the economic concerns are worth doing something about.
Many common items will be hard to acquire, and will disrupt the day to day lives of many people. The lack of a wide range of medicines will cause sickness and death. The lack of toiletries will cause issues. The difficulty in replacing electronic components will cause disruption. The difficulty in acquire replacement parts for machinery and farm equipment will cause disruption. Bathroom products, desktop computer parts, PPE, medical supplies, antibiotics, telecommunication equpiment such as cell phones, clothing, dishwares, disposable products of all kinds, steel, concrete, printer paper and a thousand other products will become more difficult or more expensive to acquire. On top of the increased cost associated with nearly every aspect of our lives, people will be put out of work by a faltering world economy.
This should not have been allowed to happen. We should not have allowed our country to become so dependent on another country, but we did. Their economy is intertwined with ours to such a degree that they will drag us into a depression, now. It is unavoidable at this point. We will eventually adapt. Manufacturing will move. Production will move back home. People will learn to live with less. People will die. This has all happened before and it will happen again, but it is still reasonable to be concerned about the collapse of our way of life. Life will not be nearly as comfortable, but we will be better for it in the end. Still, if people were so easily willing to undergo prolonged discomfort to be made into something better, we would not have nearly as many fat people around.
I like what you said a lot. We will adapt. Our way of life may end, but we will replace it with something even better. We will become better people at the end of all of this. A lot of people hate the saying, but life has shown me it always ends up being the case: everything happens for a reason (usually a good reason in the end).
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[–] pcdude 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
The virus itself would be inconvenient mostly, and deadly to a few more than might have died otherwise. The economic ramifications of broken supply chains, populations out of work, and factories that have still not started up in China will be felt for some time. While panic is not a good response to any situation, the economic concerns are worth doing something about.
Many common items will be hard to acquire, and will disrupt the day to day lives of many people. The lack of a wide range of medicines will cause sickness and death. The lack of toiletries will cause issues. The difficulty in replacing electronic components will cause disruption. The difficulty in acquire replacement parts for machinery and farm equipment will cause disruption. Bathroom products, desktop computer parts, PPE, medical supplies, antibiotics, telecommunication equpiment such as cell phones, clothing, dishwares, disposable products of all kinds, steel, concrete, printer paper and a thousand other products will become more difficult or more expensive to acquire. On top of the increased cost associated with nearly every aspect of our lives, people will be put out of work by a faltering world economy.
This should not have been allowed to happen. We should not have allowed our country to become so dependent on another country, but we did. Their economy is intertwined with ours to such a degree that they will drag us into a depression, now. It is unavoidable at this point. We will eventually adapt. Manufacturing will move. Production will move back home. People will learn to live with less. People will die. This has all happened before and it will happen again, but it is still reasonable to be concerned about the collapse of our way of life. Life will not be nearly as comfortable, but we will be better for it in the end. Still, if people were so easily willing to undergo prolonged discomfort to be made into something better, we would not have nearly as many fat people around.
[–] 0rion [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I like what you said a lot. We will adapt. Our way of life may end, but we will replace it with something even better. We will become better people at the end of all of this. A lot of people hate the saying, but life has shown me it always ends up being the case: everything happens for a reason (usually a good reason in the end).