Europe, on the other hand
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 7:09 am
"The normal is often meaningless. Almost everything in social life is caused by rare but momentous shocks and jumps." This sentence from Taleb's book "The Black Swan" has never been as relevant as it is today. "For the first time since World War II, the whole world has been torn out of normality," a reporter from the morning magazine on ZDF announced today.
"Gossiping about delayed trains and patchy israel rcs data radio networks is like a reminder of the good old days." When the world was still normal. It is astonishing how quickly habits of civilisation that have been practiced for decades can be forgotten. For example, when saying hello. Or when commuting to work. What is happening around the world reads like a seminar on crisis management. The coronavirus is not actually a black swan because we have already experienced similar patterns: Sars (2003), H1N1 (2010) and MERS (2013). We followed this, but from a safe distance; Asia is far away. Now it seems that Asia (with the exception of Japan) is fighting this crisis much more effectively than the rest of the world because it has learned lessons from past epidemics. has internalised the pattern that such stories only take place in Asia. When Wuhan was sealed off, the ARD correspondent from Beijing said that we should consider ourselves lucky that this epidemic had broken out in an authoritarian state. At the same time, several doctors explained to me that the coronavirus was harmless ("Every year, far more people die from a 'normal' flu").
"Gossiping about delayed trains and patchy israel rcs data radio networks is like a reminder of the good old days." When the world was still normal. It is astonishing how quickly habits of civilisation that have been practiced for decades can be forgotten. For example, when saying hello. Or when commuting to work. What is happening around the world reads like a seminar on crisis management. The coronavirus is not actually a black swan because we have already experienced similar patterns: Sars (2003), H1N1 (2010) and MERS (2013). We followed this, but from a safe distance; Asia is far away. Now it seems that Asia (with the exception of Japan) is fighting this crisis much more effectively than the rest of the world because it has learned lessons from past epidemics. has internalised the pattern that such stories only take place in Asia. When Wuhan was sealed off, the ARD correspondent from Beijing said that we should consider ourselves lucky that this epidemic had broken out in an authoritarian state. At the same time, several doctors explained to me that the coronavirus was harmless ("Every year, far more people die from a 'normal' flu").