Gifted after the pandemic is the best case scenerio

" Breaking trust in any relationship or questioning future success......NO.... best-case scenario WE all have made it on the other side of a great pandemic. I do not deal in worse case scenarios. What I see & feel is that the connection and gift of ‘cognitive’ empathy & passion felt across the globe is real. Forward into a new gifted world. - A.T. Yoda Brooks

 

A significant majority of people, including nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%), believe the world, and their lives specifically, changed after the COVID-19 pandemic. This view is shared by individuals, experts, and global organizations who observe lasting shifts across various aspects of society and daily life. 

Public Sentiment

• Widespread Agreement: Most people agree that few aspects of daily life were left untouched by the pandemic.
• Lasting Impact: A Gallup poll found that 53% of U.S. adults do not expect their lives to ever be the same as they were before the pandemic.
• Profound Effects: Individuals have reported a wide range of personal changes, from grief over lost loved ones to a new appreciation for human connection, a slower pace of life, and personal health re-evaluations.
• Societal Division: A majority of U.S. adults (72%) feel the pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together, highlighting deep societal divides. 

Expert Perspectives

Experts and "big thinkers" from various fields largely agree that the pandemic accelerated pre-existing trends, such as digital transformation, and created lasting structural changes. 

• Remote Work and Digital Transformation: There is a consensus that remote and hybrid work models are here to stay, and the forced experimentation with digital technologies (telemedicine, online learning, e-commerce) has fundamentally changed how we interact, work, and learn.
• Economic Fragility: Experts like Itay Goldstein note that the crisis exposed multiple dimensions of fragility in the economy, and the reliance on just-in-time supply chains has been re-evaluated.
• Public Health and Science: The pandemic has advanced scientific research by decades in a few years, but it also sowed distrust in public health institutions and between countries.
• Environment and Inequality: Some experts, like Gita Gopinath and Yolanda Kakabadse, view the crisis as a wake-up call to shift to a greener, more sustainable, and less unequal economy, recognizing that "ecosystem health equals human health".
• Mental Health and Social Connection: Psychologists observe that the confrontation with mortality and forced isolation has led to a greater appreciation for social connection, while also increasing the prevalence of mental health challenges like depression and anxiety. 

In short, the belief that the world has changed since COVID-19 is a widely held sentiment. Now the fade of how to show gratitude might be a future class or economic conflict. Don't sign on to it. 

Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2020/06/how-will-the-world-be-different-after-covid-19