I am not an expert on infectious disease. If you haven’t done so already, please read an article or listen to a podcast by someone who is—I’d suggest Laurie Garrett, author of the Pulitzer-winning The Coming Plague. Unfortunately, some of her best new pieces are behind a paywall , but there is a good short interview with her here , and you can read her recent tweets here . Another good introductory article is this one by Jon Barron. What I do bring to the table is a couple of decades of thinking about what might take down industrial civilization. I’m not saying that COVID-19 (the official name of the coronavirus that’s currently in the process of causing a global pandemic) will necessarily do that, but the risks are growing that it could trigger a major unraveling that would leave the world substantially less networked, less wealthy, and less […]