How will the world look after the Pandemic?

[CRV]

I think it’ll be a lot different even when things go back to “normal”, except it’ll be a new normal - I think a lot of things will remain online, different spheres of jobs will expand e.g. manufacturing but will less retail. As for the cruise ship industry, I think the numbers will decline, but I don’t think we’ll see an end to it.

 

[phaster]

Pope says pandemic a chance to ‘see’ the poor and rethink production, consumption

…“This crisis is affecting us all, rich and poor alike, and putting a spotlight on hypocrisy,” Francis said. “I am worried by the hypocrisy of certain political personalities who speak of facing up to the crisis, of the problem of hunger in the world, but who in the meantime manufacture weapons.”

“This is a time to be converted from this kind of functional hypocrisy,” he said. “It’s a time for integrity. Either we are coherent with our beliefs or we lose everything.”

Francis urged that the implications of the pandemic for social and economic life not be forgotten when it’s over.

…Francis said that even though a number of governments have taken exemplary measures to defend the population, the crisis has made it evident that “all our thinking, like it or not, has been shaped around the economy.”

https://cruxnow.com/covid-19/2020/0...-the-poor-and-rethink-production-consumption/

I agree w/ the pope (about hypocrisy) and view what has happened as a sigh that business/politics as usual was not sustainable

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Disease evolution: how new illnesses emerge when we change how we live

The world’s scientific community is focused on how to improve detection and responses to emerging diseases such as Zika virus and Ebola. So what can we learn from the most recent large-scale outbreaks?

theconversation.com

 

[JanR]

I, for one, refuse to live my entire life online. More activities and contacts may be done via the internet after this, but I don’t feel that should be mandated and become required for everyone.

I fear that much more of our freedom to choose may be usurped. We all still need direct human contact, that is, in person contact. We need that as a species, as beings, and as the overall human race.

I hope that no government entity ever takes that option completely away from us.

We can’t protect ourselves or society from everything, nor should we try.

 

[phaster]

I, for one, refuse to live my entire life online. More activities and contacts may be done via the internet after this, but I don’t feel that should be mandated and become required for everyone.

sadly the ability of having the ability to be connected 24/7 is akin to a narcotic many are unable to resist,… IMHO there should be a mandate that forces people to spend time alone to think about their place in creation

back in high school had a retreat which made me realize that it is important to take some time off and make a conscious decision to be aware of the natural surroundings

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I point this out because today happens to earth day,… and in San Diego where I live there has been a pretty big gathering (which I have avoided like the plague, even though I live walking distance to the park)

San Diego Union-Tribune

San Diego, California and National News

www.pacificsandiego.com

anyway, I bring this issue up because after the pandemic sadly I fear too many people will not grasp that being highly connected has a big downside price

IOW the reason covid-19 spread so quickly is because it hitched a ride on supply chains that allow various consumer goods to be made in china and quickly appear on the other side of the world the next day

 

[JanR]

JanR:

I, for one, refuse to live my entire life online. More activities and contacts may be done via the internet after this, but I don’t feel that should be mandated and become required for everyone.

sadly the ability of having the ability to be connected 24/7 is akin to a narcotic many are unable to resist,… IMHO there should be a mandate that forces people to spend time alone to think about their place in creation

back in high school had a retreat which made me realize that it is important to take some time off and make a conscious decision to be aware of the natural surroundings

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I point this out because today happens to earth day,… and in San Diego where I live there has been a pretty big gathering (which I have avoided like the plague, even though I live walking distance to the park)

www.pacificsandiego.com/things-to-do/events/story/2019-04-25/balboa-park-celebrates-30th-annual-earthfair-on-sunday

anyway, I bring this issue up because after the pandemic sadly I fear too many people will not grasp that being highly connected has a big downside price

IOW the reason covid-19 spread so quickly is because it hitched a ride on supply chains that allow various consumer goods to be made in china and quickly appear on the other side of the world the next day

Oh, my! I used to live in southern California and San Diego and beautiful Balboa Park were very familiar to me. Nostalgia abounds!

 

[phaster]

I used to live in southern California and San Diego and beautiful Balboa Park were very familiar to me. Nostalgia abounds!

yup San Diego is indeed a very beautiful city that is unfortunately run by no talent politicians who are basically only good at doing photo-ops, but have neglected doing anything substantive about addressing long term problems like homelessness AND financial mismanagement

www.TinyURL.com/ToddGloria

www.TinyURL.com/13thCheck

which does not bode well for the future given there is a really big problem of water resourced mismanagement in the south western part of the USA

Climate-driven ‘megadrought’ is emerging in Western US, study says

…Using 1,200 years of tree ring data, modern weather observations and 31 advanced climate models, scientists like the study’s lead author A. Park Williams concluded they had enough proof to say that America is “on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts.”

Climate-driven 'megadrought' is emerging in Western US, study says | Fox News

Thin Sierra Snowpack Heralds Expanding Drought in California

The lack of water this time of year is particularly daunting for decision-makers as weigh how much water to release to the thirsty farms that dot the Central Valley in one of the nation’s most productive breadbaskets.

The snowpack in the Sierra provides the state with about 30% of its water during an average year, as it slowly melts and replenishes the system of reservoirs and water storage facilities during the dry months of May through October.

For the water year that began in October 2019, it wasn’t just a lack of precipitation, but an increase in temperatures throughout the Sierra during the springtime.

https://scvnews.com/thin-sierra-snowpack-heralds-expanding-drought-in-california/