D&D and the rising pandemic

[Sadras]

America is in real trouble. ...(snip)...
Very quickly they're going to be #1 in the world for confirmed cases.
With so many other very serious systemic problems I could see this crisis completely crippling/collapsing the country. The world is definitely changing forever. In individual countries but also geopolitically.

Agree. Unlike China the spread within the USA is vast. It actually looks pretty scary.

We're also looking at months of social distancing, not a week or two. I think that's something that hasn't sunk in for most people either.

They need a full lock down of states completely for a period of time to curb and halt the virus spread. Anything less than this will prove futile I fear.

 

[Umbran]

But every crisis does affect how humanity does things. in smaller or larger change.

MoonSong seemed to be speaking of fundamental restructuring of supply chains overall, which seems a very large statement, especially when supply chains are not currently the issue - the issue facing us are panic purchasing and the fact that folks have to sequester themselves.

2011 Fukushima nuclear accident changed global view on nuclear energy and stopped many in-development nuclear power plants to be built(I wont go into how stupid that decision is, but it was made as an reaction to a big crisis).

That's debateable. In the US, the amount of power generated by nuclear plants did not substantially change over the period of 2008 to 2016. Nuclear power is on the outs in the US not due to Fukushima. Even at pre-Fukushima levels of safety and cost, progress in wind and solar has made nuclear a poor economic choice.

 

[Bupp]

I work for UPS, and continue to go to work. We are considered "critically essential". Even in areas in lock down, which includes us here in Pittsburgh. If anything, our volume is increasing, as people adjust to working from home.

I actually think that D&D will soar. It ports very well to online play. The Basic Rules are free. My kids continue to play almost daily with friends online. We are actually starting up a new game at home as well.

Game sales traditionally do well during recessions (and even the Great Depression).

 

[Oofta]

I predict that if we are successful in slowing the infection rate, a large faction of the population will sit there and claim that it wasn't that big of a deal in the first place and people just overreacted. If we don't slow the infection rate to something hospitals can handle people will just point to it as another big government failure and say there's nothing that can be done.

End of the day, nothing will really change all that much. People still have short memories and look out for their own self-interest. But tectonic shifts in world politics or the way the economy runs? I don't expect that any time soon, pandemics will just become another existential threat people ignore for the most part.

Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well I don't think people are gonna be to happy about another round of corporate bail outs for the second time in just over a decade.

So neo liberal trickle down theory I think will be on the way out. Won't be a massive fundamental swing in terms of capitalism but there's going to be more regulation and intervention.

 

[ad_hoc]

USA Vice President Pence is advising those with COVID 19 to return to work but 'wear a mask'.

Meanwhile places like Canada are demanding people to go into 14 day isolation if they even have a chance of being exposed including all people returning from outside the country. This includes not even making a stop to get groceries. It is likely there will soon be enforcement in the way of fines for breaking this mandate for isolation.

America is in serious trouble.

Trump Says Coronavirus Cure Cannot ‘Be Worse Than the Problem Itself’ (Published 2020)

The president, who has watched the economy plunge amid social distancing measures, says restrictions will be reassessed.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Oofta]

USA Vice President Pence is advising those with COVID 19 to return to work but 'wear a mask'.

Meanwhile places like Canada are demanding people to go into 14 day isolation if they even have a chance of being exposed including all people returning from outside the country. This includes not even making a stop to get groceries. It is likely there will soon be enforcement in the way of fines for breaking this mandate for isolation.

America is in serious trouble.

Trump Says Coronavirus Cure Cannot ‘Be Worse Than the Problem Itself’ (Published 2020)

The president, who has watched the economy plunge amid social distancing measures, says restrictions will be reassessed.

www.nytimes.com

Yeah, it's difficult to write much in here about the US without getting overly political.

But we're screwed.

 

[MoonSong]

MoonSong seemed to be speaking of fundamental restructuring of supply chains overall, which seems a very large statement, especially when supply chains are not currently the issue - the issue facing us are panic purchasing and the fact that folks have to sequester themselves.

That's one face, but it isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about shortages of key medical supplies. The supply chains of most of them go through the Hubei region -and exclusively in those points-. During the lockdown stocks of things like facemasks, gloves and drugs got dangerously low, which would have been a problem even if the virus hadn't spread outside China.

I mean nurses have stopped applying tests in Ontario because they aren't being supplied N95 masks and that leaves them vulnerable to getting infected by the virus. And they aren't being supplied, because the supply chain got broken and what little remains is being used on other procedures.

 

[SkidAce]

It is already a middle and upper class game. No change there.

Not sure I agree. Been playing my entire life and just recently clawed my way into middle class. And all of my group live pay check to pay check in retail. But any evidence from my part is anecdotal, so meh...

 

[Zardnaar]

Not sure I agree. Been playing my entire life and just recently clawed my way into middle class. And all of my group live pay check to pay check in retail. But any evidence from my part is anecdotal, so meh...

It's kind of your background I've noticed.

What do your parents do? Don't need to know on the forums.