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GriffenRamsey

(181 posts)
2. Off the top of my head and in no particular order...
Tue May 12, 2020, 06:25 PM
May 2020

Death of friends and family
Starvation and hunger
The loss of doctors, veterinarians, dentists and healthcare providers due to bankruptcy and suicide.
Increased pollution from Trump's gutting EPA
Loss of ballot access as election approaches
Disruption and collapse of housing market
Widespread bank insolvency due to bankruptcies
Collapse of the US bond market
Collapse of the labor market
Year 3 with no vaccine
The virus can be spread by mosquito
The virus becomes endemic in the human population
The virus adapts to human, becoming more lethal
The virus becomes endemic in a human-adjacent, widespread species like dogs or cats or fleas or rats
The US becomes a pariah nation as it settles in as the global reservoir of the virus while the rest of the world controls it
WAR - I have dozens of scenarios
The supreme court decides Trump cannot be subpoenaed
Trump disrupts election
Trump calls for armed insurrection
The U.S. descends into a Rwanda or Serbian style orgy of violence and civil war
The coalition of dictators and autocrats worldwide destroys democracy and the rule of law
A world too weak to fight climate change

...oh, and Spiders.

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