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Originally Posted by billethkid
There have been other global health disruptions in history and civilization has survived and prospered.
That is reading backward....which should portray hope.
Looking forward during our time the outlook is confused by the extreme divided politics of the day. Compounded by instant global communications that allow significant emphasis on what the future holds....which are based on specific agendas...not all of which have the welfare of the masses in mind.
So based on your background, beliefs, influences, hopes.....how do you see the pandemic evolving and do you believe we will get back to life as most know/knew before the pandemic, political and special interest furor?
Not looking for blame or finger pointing or agenda promoting or who shoulda/coulda did or did not catharsis....just down to earth how do you see the future playing out as it affects and may affect your life.
I personally do not see any break with the current trends in infection until there is a vaccine/cure(?). Or there is a new infection/death rate that is accepted as it is what it is like the flu, cancer, auto deaths, smoking deaths, etc.
As the saying goes....this too shall pass.
I personally think the bigger issue facing our lives and how it affects all of our futures, is the accelerating deterioration of law and order to a new level of acceptable violence and selective enforcement of laws.
It seems we are being driven on a win/lose course with significantly dangerous results.
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Kudos on the best written and explained thread that I have seen recently. Experts are predicting that Germany, of the large countries, is the MOST likely to thrive in the post-pandemic world. I predict that the US hits a REAL unemployment rate of 30 to 40 %. Then, it gets REALLY unpredictable - crystal ball like unpredictability. US society and others in the southern hemisphere are teadering on a knife's edge. Our's and their societies could change dramatically left or right - democracy is fragile - around the world, right now, democracies are failing. I am serious. I wish that I was not! It is no exaggeration. If you look with an unvarnished eye, you can see the signposts today.