Ebola and Insurance
Andre Willers
10 Oct 2014
Synopsis :
Insurance companies can and will destroy the Tourist
Industries in overreaction to Ebola . Shipping will be affected as well .
Effective quarantine as insurance becomes unavailable .
Discussion :
1.You will have to be really , really healthy to go anywhere
.
The end
of the Jet-set .
2.What do you do with an Ebola-contaminated aircraft or ship
?
They are nearly impossible to decontaminate .
3.If
Governments lack the will to take the necessary shut-down steps , the Insurance
companies certainly will .
If you
get on a plane knowing there is an Ebola risk , insurance will not cover you .
Ditto for
ships .
Fancy
being member of a crew with suspected ebola members aboard ?
Passenger
ships will be even more paranoid .
4.This
will effectively ground the planes and ships to and from certain destinations .
Lack of a
coherent and believable policy by nations will destroy the economies of many
tourist countries .
In most
of Africa and Europe , tourism plays the role of distribution of surplus wealth
.
Ie , it lowers global Gini .
A few
rich nations cowering behind armed plague barriers surrounded by desperate
ebola-fodder does not seem healthy .
No wonder
they are fortifying the Balkans and Ukraine . Not to mention the Urals .
All food
importers will starve . The grain will rot in the producer warehouses , and the
cargo ships will be mothballed .
5.This
has happened before .
The most
famous case is the destruction of British Empire trade after Churchill signed
the notice that the Royal Navy would not protect shipping (in 1914) .
Catastrophe
! No ship would sail without insurance clearance .
The trade
empire ground to a halt .
Many
entire nations were ruined overnight (Argentina being the main one . They still
have not recovered .)
6.You can
always walk . And walk they will .
The
Volkewanderungs have only started .
7.Flashpoints
are northern borders of old Ottoman empire , Mexican-US border , US-Canada
border , all African borders , all Mediterranean shores , etc
8.The new
cattle-class : the Uninsurables .
Coming to
a transport hub near you !
Self-insurably
yours
Andre
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