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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by Barrin92 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @09:24PM (#23288245)
>You maybe, but how many others will?

I'm willing to bet you in the next ~12-24 months virtually everyone. This isn't the first pandemic in human history. It's frankly ridiculous how people seem to have no awareness of how strongly we tend to overestimate events simply because we're living through them.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by spideymans on Saturday May 23, 2020 @09:27PM (#23288257)
Yes but prior large pandemics have had triggered losing lasting social and economic changes. Things won’t necessarily go back to how they were before. Only time will tell
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