4 ms·
I've been trying recently to wrap my head around what life is going to be like from here on out. Where do we go? Things will never be the same again. Remote wor
by aphextron 6y ago
I've been trying recently to wrap my head around what life is going to be like from here on out. Where do we go? Things will never be the same again. Remote work will now be completely normal, that's for sure. But how do we get back to living our lives? Fundamental assumptions I've had about the things I've wanted to do in life are now basically no longer an option. Will Silicon Valley no longer really be a "thing" anymore with physical meetups, hackathons, conferences etc. being a thing of the past? Surely at some point we have to reckon with this, rather than just hunkering down in our caves.
- raz32dust 6y agoThis is not forever. We will likely have a vaccine at some point, may be within a year or two. We will also keep getting better at treating it over time - in identifying susceptible populations, developing cures, and hospitals being better equipped.
- geomark 6y agoNear term availability of a vaccine seems like wishful thinking. The data is noisy, but some of it indicates antibodies to the virus are short lived. That would implicate the usefulness of a vaccine. And that's if one can be developed, a serious question given the lack of success in developing vaccines for other human coronaviruses.
- radomysisky 6y agoThere is no going back. The "normalcy" won't return to big western cities. Take a few, e.g. NY, London, Seattle, SF, Paris. Each of these cities were already crippled with homelessness. They're all so expensive that even a six figure income is barely enough to scrape by. They were all decimated by COVID. And now they've all been thrown into weeks of civil unrest, further exacerbated by local leadership stoking, rather than extinguishing the fire.