Why are tech people freaking out about coronavirus? (10mohstech.substack.com) 3 points by lmetro 6y ago ↗ HN
[–] chupa-chups 6y ago ↗ The 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 leveletc.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. [–] tim333 6y ago ↗ I fear the virus itself. Not so much for me as I'm healthy but it could easily take out my 80 something parents.
[–] tim333 6y ago ↗ I fear the virus itself. Not so much for me as I'm healthy but it could easily take out my 80 something parents.
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 16.6 ms ] thread* 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.