What major social changes do you see coming after the pandemic? (File photo: Chris Montgomery/Unsplash)
Experts predict the social consequences of COVID-19
As 2020 blessedly clangs to a close, it’s tempting to wonder where we’re headed once the pandemic is history. In the spirit of year-end curiosity about COVID-19’s possible long-term effects,
Science News posed this question to a few scholars: What major social changes do you see coming after the pandemic? As baseball’s Yogi Berra once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” The following forecasts, edited for length and clarity, aren’t written in stone and aren’t meant to be. But they raise some provocative possibilities.
What will life be like after the coronavirus pandemic ends?
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Historians predict a second roaring 20s after the coronavirus pandemic is over
Some historians expect society to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic in similar fashion to the 1920s which followed disasters World War 1 and the influenza outbreak
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In the winter of 2009, I made a list. I grabbed a piece of scrap paper from my parents’ kitchen desk and wrote down every single Meryl Streep movie that existed on the internet. Every weekend, I shut myself in my bedroom to reach beyond what I viewed as a limiting Midwestern upbringing.
I started with
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