Definitely from the general pandemic to economic pandemic, we aren’t going to crawl out of this hole overnight. Still, opportunities will be present as we attempt to reconstruct a sustainable economic machine. Sectors affected by this pandemic phenomena don’t necessarily have to return as it was but might return reimagined.

For example: Since much education is temporarily attempting to go online with mixed results, some of these methods could change education generally. Currently, some reporting reflects about a 50% effective adoption rate due to various startup challenges, not to mention stuff like the ‘internet ate my homework’, etc. Real assessments over time will probably show current online effective education possibly as high as a 30% success rate after more dust settles. (Will brick and mortar school buildings become community center study halls and for the young ones, daycare?)

Since many cultural and economic sectors are affected by the mass stoppage of daily survival routines, when and if they come back, much business as usual routines, well, do they really all need to come back as they were?

Gee, I guess I liked breathing the clean air today in L.A. Hmm how can we keep that going? Do I really need to fly to that conference/meeting when I’m a Skype/Facetime away, the savings for me as a consumer seems a win-win, but a loser for the pricey airline industry?

Getting out of our current economic malaize could realize a many differently enabled economic infrastructure. Nothing will be simple of course however opportunity knocks.