I have taken liberties to edit many words and formulations to make the predictions more understandable and presentable.
The pandemic is a developing event, the scale of which is only exceeded by the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918. What is more, all its consequences are still to materialize.
Surreal or even dystopic do not even begin to describe it. It has profoundly affected, with all its ramifications, the center of the world, the United States of America (US), perhaps irreversibly.
Moreover, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has much to answer for, because the virus was manufactured in China for still unverified reasons, and because its deceitfulness ushered in the deadliest planetary malady in recent times.
I will be adding or amending as things develop. Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to the new normal.
1. Remote meetings will become normal or routine.
2. Software will improve drastically.
3. People will go to office less.
4. People will stay or work at home more.
5. We will socialize less at work, and more in our community.
6. Things will not normalize any time soon.
7. The next pandemic will not be as bad because we are learning a lot from this present
one.
8. Travel and tourism will be irreversibly changed due to global restrictions.
9. Office cubicles will become taller.
10. Classes in highly conceptual or abstract subjects will remain online while classes in hands-on subjects will be face-to-face.
11. Partial canopies or glass panels between desks or cubicles in offices and classrooms will become necessary.
12. A "quarantine state of mind" will linger for months or years.
13. Masks will become wardrobe standards and will improve because of technology.
14. Many malls and restaurants will close.
15. Handshakes, hugs, and kisses will become less and less practiced.
16. Business management will become more and more digital.
17. Innovation in various fields will accelerate.
18. "Brick and mortar" stores, like malls, will lessen, while online stores will flourish.
19. Technology to adapt to the new situation will rapidly develop: in the direction of enhanced safety and greater social control.
20. Globalization and urbanization (the spread of cities) will be reversed.
21. "Deglobalization" will progress while nationalism will intensify.
22. There will be less international cooperation and more international conflict.
23. People will avoid trains, buses, cafes. restaurants, theaters, stadiums, supermarkets, and offices.
24. There will be less globalization of things, and more virtual globalization.
25. US politics will become more polarized: between a nationalist and protectionist Right, and a socialist and "progressive" Left.
26. There will be greater public debt and budget deficits, prodding more taxes and more borrowing from banks.
27. There will be more friction between China and the US.
28. People will opt for cars rather than mass transit.
29. Because of lost jobs and the lockdown, there will be more children who will feel deprived, insecure, and traumatized.
30. Social distancing will separate people from other people and parts of society; a widespread feeling of disconnection or alienation will result.
31. Single persons will be discouraged to start new relationships. Women who can afford to stay single are likely to stay single indefinitely.
32. In the effort to find a cure for Covid-19, cures for a number of deadly diseases will also be found.
