Like you say, these effects don't counter the immense human suffering happening.
People will wash their hands more thoroughly and more often.
Wearing masks when sick won't be stigmatized.
Governments might increase funding for healthcare, even as a military "health force".
National healthcare might be possible politically in some countries that don't yet have it.
Remote jobs will have a much bigger pool of applicants to choose from, but likewise applicants will have a much bigger jobs to choose from too. So the two should cancel each other out.
Businesses get more robust, start having a larger margin of safety. It reminds me of how banks got deleveraged after 2008 because Dodd Frank forced them to keep more cash on hand.
People eat all those random items in their pantry that would sit there uneaten for 10 years without a virus.
People realize that it’s possible to survive and thrive under the constraints of not going out much at all.
Parents are forced to cope and learn how to parent their kids instead of putting responsibility on teachers and schools.
Online education because more normal.
Work from home will be desirable if people successfully adjust.
Many countries will have their economies halt - causing them to bring forward new laws and cut on taxes and different costs associated with owning a business, a lot of extraneous work and spending will be cut away and bureaucracy will be slashed, healthcare will be taken more seriously.
Startups that were gonna die in 1-2-3 years because they dont have any real market fit will die out and the overblown ones will have to reform the way they approach business.
But mostly, this will be a push for Universal basic income and into a "more socialist" direction for many countries.
A fun new world awaits us.
We're told ~70% of people won't need to be hospitalized .. we're also seeing hospitals overrun in Italy with perfectly healthy people in their 40s dying.
We're in a wash of really bad information and panic and we have people criticizing those who are trying not to panic. And none of us are really talking to each other, because we can't.
It's a 1984 style cluster fuck.
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What don't you like about the lefthand side?
People are spending more time with their kids. Maybe eating healthier, cooking at home. Maybe breaking fast food habits.
Workers are getting a chance to not commute. To get a few weeks break from the commute.
We’re also seeing a rise in remote work. If we can go to the office 1-2days a week for 6hrs and work from home for the rest I think that will be a much better for us.
Universal basic income is being more seriously considered. When we realize that all these service industry jobs were non-essential. I don’t think they’re coming back to the extent that we would all imagine.
We also are in the middle of an unprecedented tax upon the healthcare system. Right now is absolutely the time to switch to a Medicare for all system. Coronavirus does not know rich vs poor and it will infect and kill both.
Lastly I think we’re going to take a long hard look as as a nation about what kind of education we need and how to pay for it. We will have a lot of young workers not working right now. What if we started to make CS/IT degrees free for all the people who were laid off? Something like https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate... but actually free and taught by laid off developers.
TL;DR M4A, UBI, and Yang was right..