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Hank: the COVID-19 pandemic's economic fallout will hit very unevenly (2020)

prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2020-04-10) · owner: Hank

In April 2020 Hank said the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic would hit very unevenly.

Told alongside: Hank: the COVID-19 pandemic will make countries even more nationalistic (2020) · Hank: later 'it wasn't as bad as they said' messages will work against experts (2020)

About: COVID-19 pandemic, health equity

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2020-04-10 predicted Hank says the economic fallout is going to hit very unevenly. Things I'm Finding Encouraging 00:02:40

What is said about it

4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank worries that at a moment that calls for international cooperation, the pandemic will make us even more nationalistic. (hedged) — 00:02:45
  • 2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank worries that later, dealing with the repercussions, messages that it wasn't as bad as experts said will work. (hedged) — 00:02:53
  • 2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank says experts and their policies are right now saving thousands of lives a day. — 00:03:03
  • 2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank says people with strong opinions and no expertise always get to pretend they were right, since their advice is never taken and no one runs the simulation their way, thank the Lord. (playful) — 00:03:10