19 November 2020
COVID-19 creates the very 21st century lifestyle and systems
New vaccines were recently invented for the flu. I guess things might be going back to pre-COVID-19 period.
But there should be three major lifestyle and system changes, which may remain in our society even after the pandemic is gone.
1. Basic Income; Wordwide lockdown measures let the world governments compensate their citizens for loss of income because they couldn't go to work or open restaurants. People and governments realized everyone needs basic income to prepare for such crisis, which may come unexpectedly in the future.
2. Online education and work; People realized there is no needs to spend extra-time or fees for commute to do the same things as we can easily do on internet.
3. Less crowded space to stay; People realized the more crowded place one is in, the higher risk of infection of the flu. Let’s always make a social distance everywhere, every time. Too many people gather in a small space is not desired. No more events like a rock concert in a big stadium. For businesses holding of big events to invite so many people is considered a great risk. That may have to be cancelled due to another pandemic resulting in a huge loss.
Designs of streets and buildings have to contain such notion. So in post-COVID-19 era, wider streets and corridors, bigger seats in less packed rooms and auditoriums. Conventional city layout should be drastically altered.
In that sense, rural lifestyle transcends urban one. More people will live in countryside and be able to work from home online not worrying about money because certain amount of money is paid or you can produce food on your farms so you do not die by losing jobs.
That is the very 21st century lifestyle.