COVID-19 and the new business normal ZDNet

My co-author Henry King and I have been asked several times since launching our series on Flow whether the model can tell us anything about the coronavirus pandemic as it is currently being defined by the WHO (as of March 15, 2020). We aren't health professionals, so we are reluctant to comment on the virus, how it works and spreads, or on medical interventions and antiviral technologies. But we can make observations about the emerging, and now normalizing, response to the virus at least in the USA, what we may learn from it, and what, if any, long term implications there might be for business and our society more generally. From cancelled conferences to disrupted supply chains, not a corner of the global economy is immune to the spread of COVID-19. The mandate we have all been given, from health professionals, from politicians, from our employers, is "stay at home".