Predictions for future post Covid-19?

Question

Pandemics, chaos and economic down turn are not always a bad thing! I, for one, am very excited about the prospect of the future and birth of completely new opportunities! These sort of events have a tendency of clearing out industries of old, rusty and obsolete players, making room for people brave and observant enough to try new innovative ideas!This is a global pandemic and no one has any clue what's "actually" going to happen to our macro/micro economy, jobs, real estate, businesses, society, local politics, geo political relations, potential wars and etc...! All we can do is guess ... and from guessing we can develop predictions and hopefully move to innovate!Please share your positive and negative thoughts on the near future. i.e. 2-5 years!The governments, specially USA, have moved to release a huge stimulus packages worth trillions ($2-8+T). However, I personally think it's premature and misses the entire core of the epidemic and USA's own nature of capitalism. They simply try to copy 2008 QE strategy and assume business as usual once people move out of quarantine! It's only a failed attempt at short-term avoidance and delay of the inevitable.Restaurants, movie theatres, concerts, weddings, hotels & vacations and most other social structures will not get packed with people immediately. It will take years for them to become booming businesses once again. But if things are going to be different, how would they look like? share your guess...

vulcan01 · Accepted Answer

Most likely we'll see that more companies will make more of their roles remote. Especially for smaller business, office space rent can be expensive. With COVID-19 they've probably seen that many jobs can be performed remotely, so hopefully we'll see more flexible business jobs. (This of course makes sense for software stuff more than hardware/service...)

shahbaby · Answer

I think we'll recover within that time frame and things will mostly return to normal.The efficiency of WFH will be forgotten and the rat race will continue.

Foober223 · Answer

Covid 19 is very mild compared to the first colds unleashed on humanity that wiped out civilizations. It just seems worse now since we are experiencing it.2-5 years, the whole world will become infected and gain resistance. Minor changes in behavior will be established such as masks becoming socially acceptable in western countries.