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We don't know what we don't know, but we are learning. And what we're learning is pretty alarming.What my physician said. It will take long-term studies until we really understand this. By then, there will likely be more. This comes with costs, real and financial. The price tag globally is already in the trillions and the real costs in terms of resources, human resources in particular, have not yet been inventoried. So far, the emphasis has been on deaths. But that is only part of it.Then, there is climate change.Meanwhile, the world is caught up in endless war which is also running in the trillions in financial costs. and real losses, including lost opportunity.We (humanity) are not coping with this well. The future is cloudy at least, if not stormy. All these are interconnected and
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We don't know what we don't know, but we are learning. And what we're learning is pretty alarming.What my physician said. It will take long-term studies until we really understand this. By then, there will likely be more. This comes with costs, real and financial. The price tag globally is already in the trillions and the real costs in terms of resources, human resources in particular, have not yet been inventoried. So far, the emphasis has been on deaths. But that is only part of it.Then, there is climate change.Meanwhile, the world is caught up in endless war which is also running in the trillions in financial costs. and real losses, including lost opportunity.We (humanity) are not coping with this well. The future is cloudy at least, if not stormy. All these are interconnected and
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We don't know what we don't know, but we are learning. And what we're learning is pretty alarming.
What my physician said. It will take long-term studies until we really understand this. By then, there will likely be more. This comes with costs, real and financial. The price tag globally is already in the trillions and the real costs in terms of resources, human resources in particular, have not yet been inventoried. So far, the emphasis has been on deaths. But that is only part of it.
Then, there is climate change.
Meanwhile, the world is caught up in endless war which is also running in the trillions in financial costs. and real losses, including lost opportunity.
We (humanity) are not coping with this well. The future is cloudy at least, if not stormy. All these are interconnected and influence each other in the world system. Now we are looking at them separately. That doesn't bode well for the future. This is what should be occupying attention about leaving the grandkids instead of the national debt foolishness.
The Lens
The Long COVID Road Ahead
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/the-long-covid-road-ahead
See also
The Sanders Institute
https://sandersinstitute.org/fellows/dr-stephanie-kelton/