The other important point is the straina rise in health care costs could place on state budgets, which were bolstered by the 2009 stimulus legislation, but are still nonetheless strapped.
If someone you know appears to be under undue strain or near the breaking point as a result of all the scary financial news this week, intervene to make someone aware of the situation and ensure they have the support they need.
Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether apoint is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).
The requirement to perform two such operations in an overlapping time frame, while maintaining other critical deployment and retain a strategic reserve would straina force of this size and character, perhaps to the breaking point.
At some point during their deployment, many servicemen and women understandably become overwhelmed by the unrelenting strain of living in a combat zone.