Coronavirus

So, the question has come up, whither the Maelstrom Rising series in the aftermath of the Wuhan Coronavirus?  It was originally floated as question about whether people would really want to read more about the world unraveling while it appears to be doing just that in real life.  It’s since turned into a different question: Since the original backstory was written before the coronavirus outbreak, how would it effect the overall storyline?  After all, there’s no mention of a global pandemic in the backstory.  And how would the current crisis play out in such a way that the backstory remains mostly intact? I think it’s actually somewhat simpler than I might have thought. The economic fallout from all of this is going to be far worse than the death toll from the disease itself.  The global economy is taking a huge hit, that will only get worse as quarantine measures continue.  At the same time, global interdependence has also taken a blow that it might not recover from.  (There were op-eds published several weeks ago, bemoaning the fact that the coronavirus has dealt a blow to globalization that it might never recover from.) The rapid spread of the coronavirus, both due