In March 2020 the world population was subject to a life-changing event in the form of a global pandemic. The current advanced state of communications technology-enabled rapid response in virtually every corner of the globe.
What began as an adventure to avoid illness has become a way of life, albeit with limited success relative to avoiding illness. Although the first peak of infection was addressed as more people sought to return to more normal day to day routine, the peak returned.
What Next?
The drastic steps to lock down our interaction with others did work but at a significant cost to both our economies and quality of life. The gradual return to commercial activity worldwide has been accompanied by a commensurate rise in the number of viral cases.
Another severe lock-down on travel, restaurants, and retail shopping will likely be another shock for a stuttering economy. On the good news, front looms the upcoming U.S. election with hoped for the ejection of the current abysmal leadership.
A Way of Life
The search for a vaccine and even better a cure is ongoing and could (optimistically speaking) start to change the way we interact with each other as early as the spring of 2021.
Even then though, I believe it is likely many of the freedoms and little pleasures we once took for granted will continue to be curtailed for some time, perhaps another six months.
Social gatherings, travel, and the workplace are going to be impacted by sometimes as returning to less stringent public health practices and normal transaction volumes is probably not going to occur overnight.
