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March 19, 2020 • #

Morgan Housel draws similarities between the current crisis and global response to World War II:

Pandemics kill people and recessions ruin people. Saying they have silver linings is a step too far.

But I wonder if the best map we have that tells us what to expect next is the kind of extreme cooperation, solidarity, and empathy we last saw in the 1940s.

And I wonder if we’ll look back at COVID-19 as one of the worst things to happen to us, yet triggering something positive that couldn’t be achieved any other way.

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