What are your predictions for 2022?

It slowly dawns on the population that a great many of us have had a few decades slashed off of our lifespan by the after-effects of a disease that some of us still refuse to believe in.

There are likely millions in the US who are now functionally 20+ years older than they were a year ago. It's going to take a decade for this knowledge to diffuse through to everyone as the funerals of young people become the new normal.

There is a very small chance that the narrative of how this disaster happened is properly known, most likely it will continue to be buried.

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Computers still won't have capability based security, and the slow moving disaster will continue. We'll keep blaming C, programmers, hackers, and users... all the wrong causes.

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Democrats will fail to accomplish any of their stated goals (which suits the donor class just fine), and the other team will win a lot of seats. Donor control over government continues intact. In 2024 control flips, and the story repeats.

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Slowly evidence emerges that there have been many overunity devices invented in the past century that were suppressed to keep the status quo going in the fossil fuel industry.

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There's a small chance the donor class loses control... and it could go poorly.

Regarding office vs wfh: the extroverts will lose; there are too many billions to be saved. The buildings will be repurposed into cheap condos or demo'd.

There will be no market crash.

There will be no real consequences for Jan 6.

Non-farm payroll numbers will continue to disappoint for months.

More structural economic problems derived from those of the last two years get discovered, financial stability deteriorates more and faster, consumers' trust in the future gets even worse than now.

US-centric.

* Mid-year elections where 34 out of 100 senate seats are up for election. This is gonna pull us apart further. I expect a lot of violence.

* Inflation will raise more and faster.

* Stock market is gonna climb even higher as more and more money are gonna get printed by the feds. (SSI is getting a 5.9% boost!)

* Many companies will abandon mandatory in-office work for most of the back office type positions.

TV shows that reference the Pandemic.

And the 'managed decline' of Britain.

Things are looking pretty euphoric in the markets today; increasing the likelihood of a great tumble from a magnificent run.

Only a matter of time until it starts to fully take into effect.

Maybe it's time to finally hit that sell button?

At least one new light water reactor switches on outside of China.

The world will continue spinning regardless of the noises made by those of us resident on this layer of it.

Overreach by the far-left wing of the Democratic party leading to an Independant and slightly left of center revolt and Republican landslide in the midterms.

Crime, homelessness and drug problems continuing to get worse to the point where places like Portland Oregon either collapse into chaos or are forced to do mass sweeps / arrests.

Divorce rates climbing while marriage and fertility rates decline.

A new and deadlier 'rona wave comes by May and ...

I wonder what the predictions of 2020 were in late 2019 :)

What's your prediction for the fight?

Prediction?

Yes, prediction.

Pain.

Another pandemic hits and it's not well-managed. Everyone, exhausted and resources depleted from COVID-19, don't respond to the new threat or refuse to see it. Nobody has the political capital to call for more lockdowns or rush another vaccine.

It could well be something like Ebola, with a r0 of 1.8, and a high fatality rate. A lot of people will decide that they'd rather risk death to a disease over certain death from poverty.

That my job will still suck, and will probably be even worse.

Basically that everything will continue to get worse.

World travel is still not as easy pre-covid due to expiring vaccination certs being required.

Lockdowns to continue throughout the world.

Some big events will be cancelled because the performer gets covid.

WFO pushed back and back due to covid outbreaks.