Ask HN: Would you create a steady side income during the Covid pandemic

I assume that many of you here are programmers and developers with plenty of remote-friendly, in-demand work to keep things stable during the COVID epidemic and probable recession that we seem to be teetering on the verge of, but for someone like me without developer skills, whose current employment is writing about the features and technical aspects of consumer technologies, the possible economic consequences of COVID and economic recession are something that's worrying. So I ask if anyone here has their own practical opinion on useful ways to stabilize, diversify or create an income during what's presumably going to get economically and socially worse in the coming months.