Cisnes negros, rinocerontes grises y sociedades frágiles

El COVID-19 ha irrumpido en la sociedad y en la economía. Un evento imprevisible en el tiempo para el que el mundo no estaba en absoluto preparado. […]The collision of multiple catastrophes such as pandemics, climate change, destruction of natural infrastructures that deliver ‘ecosystem services’, and global commerce fragility based on limited supply chains and just-in-time operations are making black swans into grey rhinos, and we should expect more of them to come at an accelerating pace in the years to come. We need less fragile and more resilient economic, political, and social systems in order to cope with these disasters[…]   linkedin.com | Black Swans Are the New Normal. We Need to Build Anti-Fragile Societies Now. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has exposed many fragilities in our current systems: economic, health and disaster response, and societal, to name a few.

Guia de actuación empresarial frente a la crisis del coronavirus.

Esta crisis hace necesario, en el ámbito de la empresa, tomar medidas para evitar el colapso y tratar de continuar con las actividades críticas. Es imprescindible actuar de forma urgente e implementar los planes inmediatamente. Los pasos básicos son: – Hacer planes y difundirlos – Evitar los contagios – Reducir el impacto en la actividad cdc.gov | Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.

El impacto del coronavirus COVID-19 en la economía

El impacto del coronavirus en la economía global aun no se ha desplegado, pero por los datos que aparecen, tiene pinta de que va a ser fuerte. […] the data points that can be marshaled to make sense of the macroeconomic picture are not good. Chinese oil demand was down 20 percent earlier this month, “probably the largest demand shock the oil market has suffered since the global financial crisis of 2008 to 2009, and the most sudden since the Sept. 11 attacks,” […] Factories are not running at full capacity either. Pollution near Shanghai, a reliable and hard-to-fake indicator of economic activity, has plummeted […] Prices for bulk carriers that move iron ore and coal have collapsed […] It will be a long time before we understand what the outbreak did to the global economy. theatlantic.com | Coronavirus Is a Data Time Bomb