Wednesday, March 09, 2022
A world without Covid will still be shaped by Covid....
Sometimes the people who really struggle aren't recognized as struggling.
And that's going to be one legacy of Covid, I think-- that we are going to have a society full of people who have gone through trauma, but who keep it hidden.
Here are some other long-term effects I suspect we will see:
-- Church attendance will plummet. There is no real audit yet, but I can see the effect that Covid had on many churches. Some people will respond "My church is doing great!" That's good, but I don't think it is typical. This reduction in religious adherence will have some negative affects on the larger society (and, I'm sure, some positive ones).
-- Our lives will continue to be more insular. Our instinct to form social groups feels stunted right now, and I don't know if it will fully return.
-- Zoom is here forever. Get used to it. Sigh. But at least it is better than the dysfunctional devil child that is Microsoft Meetings.
-- A lot of kids basically lost a year of school. It hit the poorest kids the worst, too. We will see the effects of this for a long, long time.
What else do you think will change?
