The COVID-19 pandemic is going to go away, but it will leave us changed in its wake. Bill Whittle, Scott Ott, and Stephen Green, talk about some of the reformations, and revolutions, that will shape the post-COVID-19 world.
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25 replies on “The Day After Pandemic: Changes Coming to the Post-COVID-19 World”
This could well prove to be the end of the “expert” class.
Well I must say the school closures are a silver lining. To think of all the deprogramming of the children makes me giddy. Home school yay!
I was kinda surprised to learn that Italy was being colonized by China.
I like your plan there, Steve. Just wish Star Trek wasn’t dead to me.
We’ll always have the original series.
And sometimes, when we’re slumming it, the first and last seasons of Enterprise, which had the occasional moment of awesomeness.
I’ll always have Babylon 5
Another good thing is we are finding out who actually is a wannabe dictator rather than just an officious bureaucrat. They are coming out of the wood work and placing all kinds of restrictions on We the People explaining only that it is because of “THE EMERGENCY”. It is all arbitrary ad hock “we must do SOMETHING” – anything so we won’t look like we are doing nothing.
So they stop the economy, restrict group assemblies, and ban mobility “just because”. What is next. Guns, personal cars, vacations, a thousand things that a free life implies. Having neither knowledge about nor caring about what would really work effectively. Rather than making the situation better, they want to STOP the WORLD from functioning even at a subsistence level. It is rather like “we must destroy civilization to save it.” IT WON’T WORK! Except, if continued, it will destroy civilization.
I do what I think is best for my survival and don’t listen to the MSM, the power grabbing and grubbing politicians, nor the so called doctors who have lived their entire lives on the public purse. I am 83 and have done reasonably well so far. I am either right or wrong. Either way I am responsible for the consequences and like it that way. They can take their ideas and shove them so far up they will have to open their mouths to see them.
I thought it interesting as Bill talked about everyone going through something together that today there is word that surprise surprise the Senate Dems are holding up the bill because it doesn’t have all of their wishlist in it. I guess they’re taking the “never let a crisis go to waste” when they didn’t even have to make this one.
Though the other saying is “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” and I think We The People will be and might find we just don’t need their kind to show us were to go.
I thought they were holding it up because it would make Trump look good, and we can’t have that happening!
Good points all!
It would be interesting to look at the stats in five, ten, twenty years in regard to the numbers of flu and cold cases reported. I’m thinking the habits that are being developed now, if they stick, could possibly lessen the severity of these outbreaks in the future years.
I think the “NEWS MEDIA” is the real root of our problem. 95% of them don’t know a dam about the real problems because they have been paid to say what they say or they are too stupid to know anything about the problems.
They’re one of a number of entities that will face a reckoning day when this is over
From your keyboard to God’s eyes.
Imagine the internet, home of all those evil, abusive misogynists (sorry, just came here from a Sargon video), doing more to let women have both a family and a career than a hundred years of activism could manage.
A simple return to domestic manufacturing won’t be enough. We need to decentralize as much as possible to build a resilient economy. Decentralization normally means loss of efficiency, but I think technology can be a big help. If we can ever figure out decent metal 3D printing, we’ll be in good shape. Otherwise, CNC tools keep getting smarter and cheaper. Why seize the means of production when you can buy it cheap?
My thought when they mentioned that was “sometimes cheap isn’t cheaper” though that usually refers to a $10 thing you buy 5 times instead of a $30 you buy once. Short term thinking gets you short term profits with long term liabilities and some companies might see that there are costs to doing business in China and the NBA with their political entanglements still fresh enough in people’s minds might decide that the market there just isn’t worth losing their American market. Maybe we’d see a spin off into a Chinese Basketball Assoc.
Sometimes I wonder why some companies don’t start company towns in Africa. Offer full civil rights and not do it the original way where the cost of housing and food is the same as your weekly paycheck, but get involved a little more in the actual production instead of farming it out and having the side effect of a much better quality control. With so many teachers around, they could probably finance enough schools for both the children of the workers and teaching the workers American English, plus in a few years when the kids are older, let them work as interpreters and work their way up the company.
I read somewhere that China is trying to colonize Africa, but not in the beneficial way you’re describing.
Unfortunately current academic and chattering-class thought is that All Colonization Is Evil, which they believe in part because All Cultures Are Equal. Neither of which is true.
It is (not really) surprising how subjective the “all is evil” gets applied to other cultures. Men looking at women here is evil but wrapping them in burkas and not letting them drive is fine if done by an “all cultures is equal” other culture. Some men have joked about calling themselves transgender and taking some woman’s spot in a “get what you ask for” way or that some girls might be waking up (and not just woke) when they get kicked off the track team for some boy.
A reduction in mass transit?
And urbanization?
One long-range societal change that I hope to see come out of this is the acceleration of telecommuting and working from home that allows people the freedom to live wherever they want. All of this technology has been available for a while now but for some reason for the most part we are still living in an industrial-era mindset that we all need to physically gather in one place to accomplish every job, not just physical jobs or service jobs. If this experiment truly breaks that paradigm and allows our cities to shrink, I think that can only strengthen our republic over time.
In the wedding everyone where thinking of the bride
really?
what kind of a wedding was that?
(I’m just kidding Scott, you know I am …)
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Heh – I was going to say the same!
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