Life after CV19

[Don M.]

This "stay at home" necessity is giving me plenty of time to think....perhaps too much time. It appears that there is NO quick answer to this illness, and we will probably have to live with these conditions for many more weeks and months. The longer this drags on, the more impact it will have....both to the economies, and to individual lives. The thing I'm becoming more interested in is....what will our lives be like After this crisis passes??? I see the potential for some rather drastic changes.

Here is a fairly lengthy, but well written, article on this subject .

https://www.inverse.com/culture/life-after-covid-19

 

[Gaer]

yes, That was an interesting prospective. I think this is the beginning of an economic upheaval. I feel the government is doing the best they possibly can, under the circumstances. I think the day will come when the government will have no more money to hold up to the people. I hope it won't move in a socialistic way. It may move in the opposite direction, with complete independence and self-sufficiency. as the writer stated, barbarism. Add a World War on top of this, people would kill to survive. OR Everything could go back to normalcy. Most interesting!

 

[Liberty]

Funny, everyone we know here in this part of Texas is "working if they want to". Son is in Ohio is in the software biz and he's closed a couple of big deals that were pending for a long time...guess more companies have more time to concentrate on what they've been meaning to get done, but just haven't had the time to see to it.

Feel so bad for the mom & pop places that seemed to have gotten screwed out of the small biz money, because they didn't have loans/ relationships with local banks. The moneys all gone now. Sigh. We need to take care of the shop keepers and restaurant folks out there in "trying to keep it going" land. As for the remaining 20% that make up the 55% of big bucks...they seem to be doing fine in these "down" times, as usual.

 

[Don M.]

As for the remaining 20% that make up the 55% of big bucks...they seem to be doing fine in these "down" times, as usual.

I suspect that one of the most "lasting effects" of this virus will be a substantial increase in "income disparity". Those currently living in or near poverty, and even those with lower middle incomes, will find themselves increasingly financially stressed. There will be increasing shortages of necessary items, perhaps even some food supplies, in coming weeks/months, and this will most likely lead to a spike in Inflation. This social distancing may well continue for the next year....until a cure is found, and widely applied....and the unemployment rate will continue to remain quite high...especially in the areas already hardest hit. We are flirting with a major recession which could resemble 1929.

 

[Ladybj]

I am not a good Chess player but I understand the game just a little. I will leave it at that.

 

[Gaer]

I suspect that one of the most "lasting effects" of this virus will be a substantial increase in "income disparity". Those currently living in or near poverty, and even those with lower middle incomes, will find themselves increasingly financially stressed. There will be increasing shortages of necessary items, perhaps even some food supplies, in coming weeks/months, and this will most likely lead to a spike in Inflation. This social distancing may well continue for the next year....until a cure is found, and widely applied....and the unemployment rate will continue to remain quite high...especially in the areas already hardest hit. We are flirting with a major recession which could resemble 1929.

I think you pegged it! I think you're exactly right!

 

[Repondering]

This is a good time to supplement your food supply with some home grown. If you haven't been learning how to do it, you're behind the curve. If you don't have a bit of ground to cultivate, then be on good terms with someone who does. If you have self sufficiency skills those are the best commodities in a barter economy.

 

[Liberty]

I suspect that one of the most "lasting effects" of this virus will be a substantial increase in "income disparity". Those currently living in or near poverty, and even those with lower middle incomes, will find themselves increasingly financially stressed. There will be increasing shortages of necessary items, perhaps even some food supplies, in coming weeks/months, and this will most likely lead to a spike in Inflation. This social distancing may well continue for the next year....until a cure is found, and widely applied....and the unemployment rate will continue to remain quite high...especially in the areas already hardest hit. We are flirting with a major recession which could resemble 1929.

Well, think it will be like the burger joint in CA "in and out"...if they ever get the testing right and the swabs, and the activating regent and the machines and the PPE's...they will let the cattle out of the pens and then test, test, test...until it indicates its spiking too much and then herd us back in for another couple months, and so on and on.

Until they find adequate treatments and finally a vaccine, if possible, or the spikes take longer and longer. The well educated folks that work from home will cram into the planes when they can domestically fly again and then "go to ground" like the rest when the alarm bell rings yet again.

Eventually, it will play itself out one way or another. Probably a lot of people will become more adapted to it, simply by being exposed or having had it. This disease in some individual cases tends to linger, long after the fever goes away and the breathing improves. Patience is what we all need to cultivate for this year. Who knows how many new inventions and/or businesses will be spawned during this "down" time for us all. Most every cloud has its silver lining. Hope we all can just learn to "rest in peace" for a while now...lol.