Realizations during the Pandemic
Thank God the pandemic happened in 2020 instead of a decade or 2 earlier. I can't imagine how PH would cope if the pandemic happened 1-2 decades earlier. We're well aware of how technology has played a major role during the lockdown by keeping people sane while self-isolating with various online entertainments (e.g. Netflix, FB, IG, YouTube, TikTok, etc.) and allowing people to still be in touch with others (e.g. Skype, Zoom, Hangout, etc.). And helping the governments, businesses, and corporations disseminate news, information, and instructions quickly and giving them the ability to run their operations remotely. If this pandemic happened 1-2 decades earlier when our internet would have been still very slow and very expensive, we would have a much deeper hole to dig out of post-pandemic. Plus the medical and health technologies that mankind has discovered and invented in the past 1-2 decades will play a huge part on the race to find the vaccine and cure for t