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Alfred Twu is maintaining a public-domain map of the various efforts underway between states to coordinate their pandemic response. It’s a detailed at-a-glance guide to who is doing what with whom, but it’s also been described as a Shadowrun scenario and a guide to the next civil war.

“Regional Advisory Council” is a perfectly postmodern name for a postapocalyptic polity and I’m definitely stealing it for a short story.

The best thing about the state pandemic coordination / civil war II map is that no-one wants Idaho pic.twitter.com/Dsh2aNaHDI

— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) April 27, 2020

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