And that means learning to live with much less. Air bridge delivery of goods from China is going to make retail so expensive, for what retail survives. Christmas will be interesting. I doubt we'll have air bridges by then, anyway and we still have warehouses (rapidly depleting) of many Asian goods (not just from China, but from Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, India and Pakistan). Wow - where are we going to get our stuff, I wonder? We can't even seem to make our own N95 masks at 4 months in. And they are not hard to make (although the factories need to be sterile and free of disease, obviously).
Yes, we need to prepare ourselves for an entirely different world. I don't think a truly tested vaccine will be available until 2022. Each of us can have our own standards for that, too, right? And a lot of people won't take it.
The sadness of this is just hitting me, and just hitting a lot of people. It's very sad for those now unemployed and those just reaching the job market. I sure hope the US finds a way for rent and mortgage protection.
One third of Americans have missed a mortgage payment in the past 4 months, and there will be little to no change to the status of their jobs. Most of their jobs depended on the business they worked for having a tiny profit margin, in which even a 5% dip in sales put the business in jeopardy and if the dip continued for a year, they had to close or lay off.
Business is going to see longterm serious 'dips' far beyond 5%. Hotels and motels will start to close next - the number of people willing to travel in this pandemic will not bounce back until it's over.
Yep. And congrats to your nation for its stellar handling of CoVid. I feel badly that we won't be seeing as many of you here in the US, if travel ever resumes. No one is going to want to come to Disneyland if the ticket prices are 5X higher. If it ever opens. My other hobby is being a DE on TripAdvisor, but, well, there are very few Australians asking for advice and I miss their "How many sleeps till Disneyland?" posts.
We can't come visit you, either.
But you are right and your country seems to share this highly sensible attitude, as do so many other nations. It must be eye-opening to read this forum.