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But Boris Johnson and his cabinet are almost incapable of thinking of Western capitalism not providing, having always had it work for them extremely well, so they're absolutely rubbish at preparing for things outside of their world-view
Really? You seem awfully sure about this. You must know them intimately?
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Interesting piece from Zeynep Tufekci on the reasons to prepare for a coronavirus pandemic; not out of fear, but because the disruption that will come from a pandemic will be lessened if we are thoughtful. There hasn't been a widespread disruption to the day to day operation of the West since the oil crisis of the 1970s, so people are just not prepared, mentally, to have things Not Work.
Some folks are. People who lived through the fall of the soviet block, Syrian refugees, etc. But Boris Johnson and his cabinet are almost incapable of thinking of Western capitalism not providing, having always had it work for them extremely well, so they're absolutely rubbish at preparing for things outside of their world-view. And the people whose job it is to tell them about External Events are the experts and mandarins of the home service they've been telling to fuck off since they got in power...