Thread by @elleprovocateur

#McKinsey Data visualizations from "Charting the Path to the Next Normal". "Globally, governments allocated a stunning $10 trillion for #economic #stimulus in just two months. That was triple what they spent during the entire 2008–09 financial #crisis."

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"#Digital became the way to get many things done—from visits to doctors to shopping to #socializing. The reliance by Asian governments & businesses on six digital & mobile technologies would become a model for the world."

#4IR #5G #GreatReset #telehealth

#McKinsey is a World Economic Forum strategic partner.
On Jan 25-29, "The #Davos Agenda", will focus on "the future of work, accelerating stakeholder capitalism, & the Fourth Industrial Revolution." #Social, #human & "natural capital".

#CapitalismAsPathology Even the stark decline of well-being, pain, anguish - is something to be measured in terms/relation to #GDP & monetary equivalents.

The #pandemic is "dwarfed by the loss of life it caused and the toll it took on people’s #happiness and #mentalhealth."

#Canada. #UnitedStates. UK. The crisis is a growing obesity epidemic. A cultural, societal crisis.

"Prevalence of conditions & health risks associated with severe outcomes in Covid-19" - #obesity, #diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (#COPD).

Current trends suggest that the incidence of #cancers, #cardiovascular disease, #mentalhealth disorders, etc. "will rise over the next 20 years, while infectious diseases may decline."

Of course "covid cases" are increasing in the Northern hemisphere during the winter months.
"And flu-like symptoms—which are similar to COVID-19 symptoms—are, on average, three times higher in the winter than in the spring."
Solution? Stop testing.