Regarding my thoughts on the matters at hand.. got an hour? 🙂
Briefly it’s this: Covid is a most suitable start to the 2020’s – the torrid twenties. This will be a decade of maturing exponential events racing to contain humanity. This pandemic is just the first exponential to get out of the bag. It was promised by epidemiologists and, well, they have also promised more to come.
Also promised: climate change (humanities GREAT reckoning) , cyber war, AI escapes the machine, the human population time bomb explodes, species collapse goes over a cliff and massive destabilizations of global biomass including insects and plankton, the great financial correction.
On the other side of the coin we have an exponential curve in scientific advances to fight back. I honestly feel that this will be the most frightening and the most exciting and wondrous decade of my life.
So I think Covid19 may be a blessing.
Covid19 is an alarm clock waking us to our own frailty on this planet and our profound connection to nature which we are killing. Think we have the collective muster to heed the ring? More practically speaking, for now, it starts with awareness.. AND a serious (revenue neutral) carbon tax!