Post by gameboy on Oct 2, 2020 0:52:59 GMT
They are saying not as bad . . . only time will tell.
Ultimately, the longer-term consequences of this pandemic – like all previous pandemics – are simply unknowable to those who must endure them. But just as past plagues made the world we currently inhabit, so too will this plague likely remake the one populated by our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
It will have effects more like the SARS virus in 2002. Before COVID I always saw a few Asians in the markets wearing masks. I thought they were paranoid and a bit silly, and they were, since SARS died out and hasn't reappeared.
So sure, ten years from now you'll see a few white people wearing masks in the supermarket. But if there is a vaccine within a year as they say, COVID will not have much longterm impact beyond germaphobic paranoia. Definitely our grandchildren will not be affected at all.