re: How much will this pandemic change the world going forward?

Our relationship with China is definitely more openly adversarial now, which will work to split the world into its traditional East vs. West. They will become more imperialist. Thankfully, many Eastern parts of the world have adopted Western values and are more aligned with us culturally. But I see this tension dominating the next 20 years.

Our world will become more nationalistic. America and our allies will benefit from this because, quite frankly, no one can compete with us. I don’t think this will result in necessarily better quality of life because of economic and financial upheaval. It will just put emerging and secondary economies back a decade or more.

We were in the process of reinventing our economy with technology, nationalist and socialist tendencies as it was. The virus has just expedited this.

In our daily life, “social distancing” will become a phenomenon. The new collectivist rallying cry. It will effect how we enter every public place from now forward.