No, but the long term effects are unpredictable. I certainly wouldn't encourage anyone in a city to pack up and move to rural Alaska because of the situation.

But I suspect many people on the fence about living in this or that city and going through a rough period of city-living will take this as a call to move elsewhere.

It’s not ending any time soon. And there might be rolling lockdowns going forward.

I've already got land on the Donner Summit to build a house. Starting this summer. It's a lot less crowded than Oakland.