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Re:Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be? by smitty1e on Sunday March 22, 2020 @08:37AM (#22654518)
Either this thing is "The End of the World As We Know It", or it is not.

Give it another week or so.

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Re:Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be? by mpodlasin on Sunday March 22, 2020 @08:54AM (#22654606)
This advice does not work.

I have been "giving it another week" for 3 weeks now, trying to figure out which direction it is going to go.

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Re:Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be? by smitty1e on Sunday March 22, 2020 @11:12AM (#22655459)
It's unknown at the moment, but I doubt the bad guys win.

Pessimism isn't my style.

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Re:Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be? by robjan on Sunday March 22, 2020 @11:45AM (#22655816)
Who's the bad guy? Viruses don't have intentions
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Re:Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be? by smitty1e on Sunday March 22, 2020 @02:07PM (#22657083)
Some spreading them may.
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Re:Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be? by KoftaBob on Sunday March 22, 2020 @03:23PM (#22657756)
That's a pretty useless dichotomy. You could say that about pretty much any problem of any size, and it would be technically true.

Enough of the dramatization. It accomplishes nothing but stress.

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Re:Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be? by contravariant on Sunday March 22, 2020 @07:02PM (#22659592)
The one thing I'm confident in predicting is that things won't be as they were.

To what extent is impossible to say right now.

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