COVID19’s Long-term Effects

April 17, 2020

I’ve been pondering over the potential effects of the COVID19 pandemic for weeks now.

I think it will have long-term/generational effects and will promote and/or increase the popularity and growth of:

• Homeschooling
• Online learning
• Demand for faster, better internet
• Deliveries
• E-commerce
• Getting/staying healthy and healthcare
• Mutual aid, mutual credit, UBI (universal basic income), timebanking
• Cooperatives and social enterprise
• Remote work
• Transitioning more activities/businesses to online/homebased
• Habit of saving
• Habit of prepping
• Self-farming or container gardening
• “Reverse urbanization”: migration away from urban areas