If CrowdStrike can cause this with a faulty update (allegedly), what do you think could happen to Western infrastructure from a full blown cyberwar? It's a valid risk.
> Society was able to move to mass WFH on a global scale in a single month during Covid
I don't know how much WFH saved lives, seeing as ordered isolation and social distancing was a thing during the Spanish Flu too (you just take the economic hit). But yes it allowed companies to keep maintaining profits. Those that couldn't WFH got paid in most countries anyway (furlough in England, etc).
> Society was able to move to mass WFH on a global scale in a single month during Covid
I don't know how much WFH saved lives, seeing as ordered isolation and social distancing was a thing during the Spanish Flu too (you just take the economic hit). But yes it allowed companies to keep maintaining profits. Those that couldn't WFH got paid in most countries anyway (furlough in England, etc).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862334/