What would be your definition of not running? It's like when someone says "We survived Covid!". Yes, you might have but thousands of others died.

>What would be your definition of not running?

inflation combined with little to no wage increase leading to total economic stall outside of the scope of any safety mechanisms, which precipitates an extreme cliff-face degradation of everyday life and commerce for citizens at every level.

or, another way : conditions that would lead to public rebellion en masse, which further stalls things past the economic strife.

the type of thing 1780s France saw.

It’s way worse, the accumulated covid deaths in the US was above 1.1M in 2023