The pandemic that didn’t change the world
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Alaska Airlines Flight 1805, Los Angeles to Washington DC, March 5 2020. Thus, the heated flight continues not to understand that the previously prepared physical luxury does not realize. Until as long as I don’t fall into the desert capital a few hours, I absorb what is happening. The world has changed.
Then faster than even bulls predicted it changed. The urban life was mainly returned until 2022. Tourism is as common as ever. (Imagine that it is in bed to know that the British government will return additional runways in Eathrow aeration of Gatwik.) Restaurants are like Fort Knox. There are epidemic vester, in public debt, in public debt, continued health problems, in memory in the memories, but the idea that wholesale wholesale will present it.
One lesson stands out for five years, and it is difficult for a journalist. Almost all events are ephemeral.
During my life, the only historical turning points are the decline of the Soviet Union, the choice of Donald Trump and the war in Ukraine. I would suggest the 2008 bank accident, but it is more and more more and more sweaters. The US economy overcame those injuries and then some. Despite that, despite the fact that China and India continued. In that case, the Iraq war. Fiasco, and a regional Bush for Iran, but in some way less than the change in the world.
After 9/11 it was common sense that after that religious terrorism dominates the western strategic thinking. Who occupies it about the traditional interstate war as a threat to life and freedom? I remember the former colleague at the height of ISI, saying that Britain should cut off its nuclear deterrent to finance special forces, intelligence and other agile assets. The dispute wasn’t just rude. The predominant was near the room. Looking back, he and we exaggerated how much the world had changed. It takes almost an inhuman detachment to stand out of your time and see them passing. However, unable and irreversible mistakes happen. (These should not be political. The art that is the worst dates often, often what strives for modern modernity).
Of course, the “turn point” is a cunning phrase. Most social change occurs through gradual trends. Again, all this is really important in my life. Of course, the growth of China and Non-West. But the digitalization of life. Without entering the Solow paradox (“You can see the computer age everywhere, but we grow in the analog era, the” reliability “and the loss of the conspiracy, the public mentioned the queen’s death.
Here you can go in two ways. One is to comfort yourself, “This will also pass in meaning. But there is an eye corner, almost everything is insecurity and unclown. If the vast epidemic event has not made a new course, what is possible to “loneliness epidemic” or most of the elections, or that or the very unfavorable gene Z Fad. Almost everyone in the public plane that you are required to spend time and think that it is steam. I gave my twentieth summer a scandal of parliament.
There were other pandemic things. People are poor predictors of their future behavior. Compare high vaccination rates with all the actions that have appeared in polls. No one who protects cars in cars can think very much about it. Without the presence of the environment, silence and calm, they reigned, which was more of a medieval than pleasant. But the final lesson, five years away, should be “stickiness” of human nature in the face of purely events. Many conservatives have come to see that era as authoritarian piracy. They can see more justice as the highest excuse for their worldview.
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