TLDR:

In extreme moments, disaster tends to cluster, as Lionel Shriver—the great novelist who, in her 2016 novel The Mandibles, predicted the major economic instability we're now witnessing—noted in a recent podcast. This is how catastrophe erupts: Botched public and official responses to a disaster do the exact opposite of what is necessary, setting off a cascade of further disasters. When things are bad, bad people make them worse.

AKA; “Mandiles”