The net assessment is that Covid-19 is highly disruptive in the near term as well as highly unpredictable in the medium to long term across every macrotrend area analyzed in this paper. It is at once an accelerant, an irritant, as well as a stress test. Its effects are going to ebb as well as flow as well as hit various nations as well as populations in different ways as well as on different timescales. It is this unevenness as well as unpredictability that defines the challenges ahead, as explained in greater detail.
While there is higher confidence in the assessment of first-order results from this pandemic, the second-order results of events only now unfolding can just start to be anticipated. For example, while the creators of this point made predictions earlier that Covid-19 would probably accelerate international protest movements, it was never thought that by later in the year they would be the epicenter of one global resistance movement as well as the concentration of those protests. Many future such surprises should be expected, but the identifiable changes underway should still be cataloged to the best possible extent. Covid-19 marks the start of an era of continuous, rapid change.
Data Growth
The digitalization of commercial as well as social activities, industries, as well as services under Covid-19 as well as the growing adoption of technologies such as IoT as well as AI is going to lead to global data growth. As the virus, as well as lockdown measures, push daily activities online, millions are turning to the internet as well as technology for entertainment as well as work, causing unprecedented spikes in data traffic as well as in-home data usage as well as showing just how vital digital infrastructure is to the future of societies as well as economies.
Anxiety as well as depression
Although anxiety, as well as depression, were quite common among people even before the advent of COVID-19, the pandemic took a severe toll on the mental health of the people due to various reasons like economic disruption, extended physical isolation as well as lockdown, fear of unemployment, etc. According to a report published in August 2023, by CDC – Centres for Disease Control as well as Prevention, the levels of depression, anxiety, as well as suicidal thoughts soared during the pandemic.
Wardrobe Addition
The new must-have wardrobe collection of 2023 as well as the next couple of years, is a small piece of cloth called a ‘face mask’. Due to the shortage of medical masks during the year 2023, many sewing enthusiasts started manufacturing homemade masks for their localities. Following this, many retailers as well as clothing companies started including masks in their fashion lines. At present, in many countries throughout the world, people cannot step out of their homes without wearing a mask.
Though at first, it was doubtful whether cloth masks could help in protecting the spread of the Novel Coronavirus, as the year went on, many studies highlighted the advantage of wearing masks, for both the wearer as well as the people around them.
To sum it up
Although this might lead to the largest cut in emissions since Second World War, it is going to barely make a dent in the current accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
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