Shambles

I assume that everyone understands that the virus – or, more accurately, the various responses to it around the world – are having a huge impact on everything. With minor odd exceptions, none of these impacts are good. The economy is in a shambles;* massive numbers of people are still out of work and unable to pay for stuff they need; countries are going into untenable debt; the educational process for students from preschool to grad school is disrupted; months have gone by since any of us properly socialized, and there's no baseball. And so on.

What will the long term effect of each of these, and all of them in concert, be on the new world?

I find it incredible that no one seems to know, or even wants to speculate. I understand that part of this is the fact that we're still in the middle of it, and don't know how long all this will last. Guesses even regarding the duration of any of this are wildly divergent.

There are plenty of articles that are happy to list all these terrible things that are affecting everyone in the world differently. There are none – so far - that lay out a vision of the new world, or any part of it, with any clarity or insight.

I don't know about you, but I find this a bit chilling.

* - A long time ago, a “shambles” referred to a slaughterhouse.