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Civil unrest should not occur. Society and order will not disintegrate, and people will keep working (one of the better ways of dealing with the anxiety of this situation for many people, I imagine).

There isn't a food shortage; there will be a slow down of cargo movement because of extra safety precautions and less people working, but there is no reason to expect people to go hungry and riot over this. Food shelters will not be closing down. Water, electricity will continue working.

Things will get quieter for a little while, shopping malls will be empty and then running in a reduced capacity as things return to normal.



> people will keep working

> less people working

Something here doesn't make sense to me.


He meant to say “fewer”.


> There isn't a food shortage; there will be a slow down of cargo movement because of extra safety precautions and less people working, but there is no reason to expect people to go hungry and riot over this. Food shelters will not be closing down. Water, electricity will continue working.

Based on the panic buying I saw yesterday and the reports of the same from elsewhere, a significant number of people do not believe this.




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