Lesson plan: What will happen after the coronavirus?

Community

• The personal becomes dangerous.
• A new kind of patriotism.
• A decline in polarization.
• A return to faith in serious experts.
• Less individualism.
• Religious worship will look different.
• New forms of reform.

Technology

• Regulatory barriers to online tools will fall.
• A healthier digital lifestyle.
• A boon to virtual reality.

Health/Science

• The rise of telemedicine.
• An opening for stronger family care.
• Government becomes Big Pharma.
• Science reigns again.

Government

• Congress can finally go virtual.
• Big government makes a comeback.
• Government service regains its cachet.
• A new civic federalism.
• The rules we’ve lived by won’t all apply.
• Revived trust in institutions.
• Expect a political uprising.

Elections

• Electronic voting goes mainstream.
• Election Day will become Election Month.
• Voting by mail will become the norm.

The Global Economy

• More restraints on mass consumption.
• Stronger domestic supply chains.
• The inequality gap will widen.

Lifestyle

• A hunger for diversion.
• Less communal dining—but maybe more cooking.
• A revival of parks.
• A change in our understanding of ‘change.’
• The tyranny of habit no more.

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