Is recession contagious? "let's continue this next week." For example, the uncontrolled spread of Covid in two of the world’s most populous nations.
Will that reduce imports from Europe? I don’t know, both countries are among the top ten trading partners with the EU. Anyone who thinks they know how this will all turn out is simply foolin’ themselves. They don’t.
But we can still be prepared.
First step in preparation is experience.
In the years between WWII and when the Himalaya’s opened Herman Buhl prepared himself with solo winter climbs in the Alps. Later in 1953 he is the only mountaineer to have made the first ascent of an eight-thousander solo. … (Nanga Parbat) His climbing partner too weak with attitude sickness to continue, Buhl climbed 6.5 km (4 miles) distant from, and 1.2 km (4,000 feet) higher than camp V only to be stuck just below the summit at 26.000’, spending the night standing on a tiny pedestal too small to squat upon, untethered, on the edge of a 60-degree ice slope. A true mountaineering legend.
There is no need to prepare for everything going right.
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