Pandemic preparedness and biosecurity. Avian flu in cattle, vaccine hesitancy, and cuts to public-health agencies raise the odds and the cost of the next outbreak.
Contested Direction genuinely disputed. Reasonable people expect opposite outcomes. Largest effect expected 2025–2040.
Second-order effects
The 2020 playbook — lockdowns, stimulus, remote everything — may not be politically available again; the market would face the shock without the cushion.
Its neighbourhood
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Frictions it intensifies
These pressures get worse, or reach more people.
Solutions it accelerates
Solutions it threatens
Sectors it reshapes
How to track it
If this trend is real, these are the numbers that will show it first.