Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022?

The entertainment industry will continue to wither and be replaced by the influence industry. Movies that once were about ticket sales became about ticket sales and selling toys. Then they became about selling toys and ticket sales and product placement. Then they became about product placement and ticket sales. Then they became about product placement, ticket sales, and social influence. Currently they are about social influence, product placement, subscription services and the toys have measured amounts of entertainment you lease in small increments.

This is a sensitive one that I've been claiming since November when South Africa responded to the UK blocking flights from there:

Omicron could be the best thing that happened, relative to the current situation ( delta at the time and multiple countries were having a lot of cases of delta).

Currently both of the "best possible scenarios" are happening but need further data.

- less severity and less hospital duration

- replaces delta

The big downside is the stress on first line workers ( eg. Doctors)

related "Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?" (250 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29281732

It will become clear that extremists have taken over the Republican Party. The November elections will show this.

2020 Pandemic (restricted life)

2021 Vaccine (politics)

2022 Endemic (living with it)