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{{a|g|[[File:Gray paper bag with sad smiley over head.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[legal eagle]] with a functioning [[risk taxonomy]] yesterday]]}}The moment when that carefully crafted [[risk taxonomy]] falls apart before your very eyes. For is the bigger issue here the ''sickness'' of crowds, or their ''madness''? | {{a|g|[[File:Gray paper bag with sad smiley over head.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[legal eagle]] with a functioning [[risk taxonomy]] yesterday]]}}The moment when that carefully crafted [[risk taxonomy]] falls apart before your very eyes. For where in it, pray tell, does it cover the risks of flu epidemics, let alone the second order calamities associated with people irrationally panicking about them. | ||
And is the bigger issue here the ''sickness'' of crowds, or their ''madness''? | |||
the [[JC has been ruminating about the possible second order impacts of the corona virus, even if all you get from it is a hacking cough and a bag on your head: | |||
*The secondary epidemic of ''dissentry'' because neurotic stockpilers in north London have cleaned the entire southeast out of lavatory paper and soap? | *The secondary epidemic of ''dissentry'' because neurotic stockpilers in north London have cleaned the entire southeast out of lavatory paper and soap? | ||
*The sudden bankruptcy of the nation’s entire Italian restaurant sector, and consequent disruption to dependent industries, because (a) they’re ''Italian'' and omg coronavirus!!! (b) the restaurant and kitchen staff all insist on working from home and (c) the restaurants can’t get hold of any linguini anyway because neurotic stockpilers in north London have cleaned the entire southeast out of pasta? | *The sudden bankruptcy of the nation’s entire Italian restaurant sector, and consequent disruption to dependent industries, because (a) they’re ''Italian'' and omg coronavirus!!! (b) the restaurant and kitchen staff all insist on working from home and (c) the restaurants can’t get hold of any linguini anyway because neurotic stockpilers in north London have cleaned the entire southeast out of pasta? | ||
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*Homicidal fights breaking out in the gents lavatories between threatened employees misconstruing each others intentions when singing happy birthday at the hand basins | *Homicidal fights breaking out in the gents lavatories between threatened employees misconstruing each others intentions when singing happy birthday at the hand basins | ||
*The fact that the only way to the BCM site is therefore on public transport and omg coronavirus!!! | *The fact that the only way to the BCM site is therefore on public transport and omg coronavirus!!! | ||
*Marital discord from spouses "on business trips" being quarantined in Venetian knocking shops, and access to justice issues for said knocking shop-quarantined spouses who cannot find any family law experts to represent them in their divorce hearings | |||