Maybe we as a society come out the other end better off?

[intrepidity]

I've said this before, but this may really be a once in a multiple generation to have a societal paradigm shift, for the better. It's up to us

When vast swaths of Americans see that the world didn't end when they stepped off the treadmill for a few moments, when businesses realized they can adjust to having a substantial portion of their workforce telecommute, when millions finally see first hand the value of a strong public health policy and infrastructure, and that it's not "socialism" but sound social structure, maybe the scales start falling away from our collective eyes, the spell that the corporate and political class have hoodwinked us into trading our lives for starts to crack, when we experience again for more than a brief weekend what it's like to spend time with our families not on a hurried vacation but at home. Well, maybe we will all realize at once that things don't have to be the way we have allowed them to become. That we can slow it all down and if corporations have to settle for smaller profits, so be it.

Maybe we, those of us that make it, come out the other side with a renewed sense of how things could be. You won't get another chance like this.

Maybe?

[Recursion]

1. Maybe. It will be a hard sell for 2 billion people who have gotten used to more than $2 / day

Because the new developing world middle class's existence is predicated on the developed world staying on that treadmill. But we'll see.

[intrepidity]

2. I hear that. But an inflection point like this

just doesn't come along, like,... ever.

Either we use it, or it all just reverts, and possibly worsens.

[lapfog_1]

3. sure thing... let's use the misery of others

not to mention the deaths of potentially hundreds of thousands to millions more so we can have a little social justice. Right?

Sort of how the Nazi's used the great depression to try their little experiment in fascism.

Yeah team!

[intrepidity]

4. There's a difference between orchestrating it

and making the best of a bad situation.

But thanks for the generous sentiment.

[lapfog_1]

5. actually no there isn't.

taking advantage of a bad situation to further political interests is just down right scummy.

We need to be helping each other to get back on our feet and back to doing what we were doing.

If you really have a better way then explain it, run for office on it, and if you win, well then you get to try it.

[intrepidity]

6. Yeah, ok, I failed to communicate properly

It happens. Oh well.

[Sherman A1]

10. Agreed

The response received was less then helpful.

[safeinOhio]

7. We came out of the 1918 Spanish Flu and the

1929 market crash, only it took a world war and many years. Then it happened again a 100 years later.

[Lock him up.]

8. Except for a world war in 10 years would be the last war...

... the human race would not survive.

But given the large devastations from climate change that are coming next. Ouch.

[captain queeg]

9. Maybe. Probably be some short term reevaluations.

But we, at least Americans, don’t seem to retain lessons learned very long. Look at Afghanistan and Iraq. Much like Vietnam. McCarthyism much the the current anti liberal and anti science. This is going to be global so it’s really hard to predict much.

[Locrian]

11. maybe - but I'm pessimistic

If this isn't a call for overhauling health care in the US I don't know what is.
But I don't see this as fixing it. Too many people have "got theirs and don't care" - ie medicare, company hc.

Everyone is freaked out - but it's because there's potential for *anyone* to get it. When 65000+ die each year from lack of hc... not so much concern.

Bad morning....haven't had my coffee...