What will society look like when the pandemic is over? Opinions range from a return to normal to a totally changed world. Will we have to be forever on standby for the next outbreak which could come at any time? Will the world be a more co-operative place or a more insular one as a result of being locked down for weeks?
Our drug development, our vaccine strategy and our provision of healthcare could be irreversibly changed as a result of this global experience. Even our view of civil liberties and the rights of governments to control our movements will need to be revised in the liberal democracies.
What will the world look like at the end of 2020?
Dear Turner
Sad to say but in dealing with Covid-19 it seems authoritarian regimes have performed better than the democratic ones.
Barry Turner
my gut feeling is that we will be back to normal sooner or later.
I would love to take some ideas into the future like
- the possibility of more home office and mor digital work,
- the closure of wild animal markets and slaughtering in China and Africa in order to prevent the emergence of such Zoonosises...
There will be new but evolving geopolitical arrangements either with more cooperation or more adversarial. National security will add another dimension that is health. All medically strategic items will be identified and localized for self-sufficiency.
Regarding transnational threats, Boin writes that two courses of action are commonly pursued: decoupling and resilience. In the former, the onus is on govt to increase aspects of islanding and isolation with the aim of decoupling from other countries and simplifying overly complex systems that are vulnerable to crises. In the later, the onus is on populations who need early warning and resources to cope with preparing for and managing the burden of crises. In this case, vulnerable populations are more heavily impacted. In the short term, the former less politically risky approach is pursued by most govts, but the later more risky approach is desirable over the long term. We will see a blend of these approaches moving out.
Just concluded a study on bio aerosol as a factor explaining covid-19 seasonality. We developed a discrete thresholds based model, that predicts seasonality switching. It’s highly likely it will be just another multi-cycle pandemic. So, some type of lockdown, hygiene, social distancing will stay with us for a few years https://iceclog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=39203&action=edit
Weerth says:
my gut feeling is that we will be back to normal sooner or later
I think its a presumption of good time. What we need is to prepare people to learn how to carry forward and coexist with the virus. It seems to survive for long like aids
Doctors Suppose That We Shall Continue Living With Covid 19 After the Pick Will Over. I Suppose The Planet Will Loose Lives and Some Economic Problems Will Arise. Time Will Be Needed To Solve Economic Problems Especially In Developing Countries Like Georgia(Post Soviet Country), where I Came From And Permanently Live.
We can see that many things not changed. The new normality made by internet due to communication, teaching, buying things and others are virtual, but I know that before coronavirus technology was changing the human life, in that way there isn´t remarkable changes.
