A speculative list of things that will NOT return to normal after COVID-19.
Social Zoom Calls. I have talked more to my siblings, parents and in-laws in the past month than any time since I graduated high school.
We do a 1 hour call where my parents talk about their lives prompted by storyworth.com which has been wonderful.
We do a 1 hour call where my parents talk about their lives prompted by storyworth.com which has been wonderful.
Winter time mask wearing in the U.S. and Europe. Now that the stigma is disappearing, there is very little downside.
The memory of COVID-19 will make it considered socially acceptable if not pro-social
The memory of COVID-19 will make it considered socially acceptable if not pro-social
Mixed feelings on Supply Chains re-shoring.
Definitely, happens at the margin, but was already in motion with nationalism/tariffs in motion.
Definitely, happens at the margin, but was already in motion with nationalism/tariffs in motion.
I think inflation remaining low is taken for granted.
I think a 1970's stagflationary scenario is beingly broadly underestimated and lost in the narrative of a V-shaped recovery.
I think a 1970's stagflationary scenario is beingly broadly underestimated and lost in the narrative of a V-shaped recovery.
More permanent move to trade schools/online education driven by increased comfort with online learning coupled with weaker economy and rising tuition prices.
Unfortunately agree with this.
Government programs are notoriously hard to take away as most people like free stuff and don't understand second and third-order consequences.
Maybe COVID is a sort of back door to UBI-lite?
Government programs are notoriously hard to take away as most people like free stuff and don't understand second and third-order consequences.
Maybe COVID is a sort of back door to UBI-lite?
Some sort of security theatre a la TSA post 9/11 will come out of this.
Maybe widespread temperature checking and separate fever clinics?
schneier.com/essays/archive…
Maybe widespread temperature checking and separate fever clinics?
schneier.com/essays/archive…
