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Stress testing the system. Imagine if this viral of a disease had a 25% mortality rate on all age brackets. It would be pandemonium.

Businesses get more robust, start having a larger margin of safety. It reminds me of how banks got deleveraged after 2008 because Dodd Frank forced them to keep more cash on hand.

People eat all those random items in their pantry that would sit there uneaten for 10 years without a virus.

People realize that it’s possible to survive and thrive under the constraints of not going out much at all.

Parents are forced to cope and learn how to parent their kids instead of putting responsibility on teachers and schools.

Online education because more normal.

Work from home will be desirable if people successfully adjust.



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