Where does this rank among historical global events?

I don’t think we can really say at this point.

It's comparable to financial crisis but on a different trajectory entirely.

COVID 19 was like this freight train you heard squealing on its failing brakes miles away. Financial crisis was like trying to run the blinking red lights and getting the rear end of your car totaled but surviving.

Got to be top 3 silly overreactions.

Somewhere between WWII and that time Kim Kardashian's arse "broke the internet ".

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For some reason this puts me in mind of the 1980 Gdansk, Poland shipyard strike. A local event that nobody paid attention to at first, but it kept getting bigger and bigger until it seemed as if it would spark a world war. The strike was crushed and martial law declared. The world caught its breath again, but that little strike began a cascade of unforseen events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism. It turned out to be one of the turning points of history.

In the same way, this will fundamentally change the world. We don't know exactly how yet, but historians will look at this as a turning point.

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Definitely the biggest event since 9/11, maybe edged out by the 07/08 financial crisis?

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I would agree with this, probably.

9/11 represented a shift in the way we live and made Americans feel vulnerable for the first time in decades.

The 08 crisis was a system wide collapse with years and years of misfeasance and negligence underscoring it - it could not be resolved quickly and the damage was very deep.

The hope, I think, is that this damage will be shorter-lived and shallower - and there are plenty of good arguments to support that idea.

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I don’t think we can really say at this point.

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here but not one person really knows.

That's the shitty part about the time we live in.

We want answers immediately.

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