{"id":6634,"date":"2020-09-21T04:53:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2020-09-21T04:53:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:53:35","slug":"we-can-protect-the-economy-from-pandemics-why-didnt-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=6634","title":{"rendered":"We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn&#8217;t We?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we&#8217;re still in this mess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nathan-wolfe-global-economic-fallout-pandemic-insurance\/\">We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn&#8217;t We?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a defining event for all humans who have lived through this, including my 3- and 5-year-old children,\u201d Wolfe said. \u201cBut still, everybody is going to go back to their jobs, and people will wonder whether the risk is really that great again.\u201d <strong><em>Researchers who study epidemics even have a term for the phenomenon: the cycle of panic and neglect<\/em><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,18,100,140],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-economics","tag-longread","tag-paul","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}