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Comment by tasuki

4 days ago

Yet the stock market mostly didn't get it. I know some people who made some money based on the knowledge that a pandemic was coming.

Ideology is powerful and so is the bias towards the status quo, not to mention the want and belief that Everything is Just Fine™.

At least in the US, there was a ton of political and economic incentive to pretend that nothing was wrong, as business proceeding as usual was paramount.