AXIOS: Four possible post-coronavirus futures

[Mike 03]

Bryan Walsh
45 mins ago - Health

A recent report by Deloitte posits four potential scenarios for how the coronavirus pandemic could affect the economy and society.

Why it matters: It's almost impossible to predict how an event as unprecedented as the pandemic will play out. But scenario planning allows business leaders to identify the most important questions a crisis poses, and prepare for a number of possible outcomes, rather than being locked into one future.

To make some sense of how the next three to five years will look, Deloitte convened a number of top scenario thinkers in an exercise led by Andrew Blau, a managing director at the firm. I spoke to Blau about the four scenarios that resulted.

The Passing Storm: After a slow start, the pandemic is contained through an increasingly effective health care system and political response.

Read about the four scenarios at link: https://www.axios.com/four-post-coronavirus-future-6b1bf9fa-b3f6-42a5-bbc8-08627f092278.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. "an event as unprecedented as the pandemic" - I guess someone couldn't find

any of the 100's of articles (or many documentaries) on the influenza pandemic of 1918.

[Newest Reality]

2. Good point.

The Black Death (Plague) was another big one; so big that this pandemic pales in comparison. I mean 75–200 million deaths is nothing to sneeze at.