> this pandemic could trigger a spatial reordering where America moves back into countryside where people are more social, trusting, and would simply prefer to

> this pandemic could trigger a spatial reordering where America moves back into countryside where people are more social, trusting, and would simply prefer to reside. This is in the last paragraph. The author tells a bunch of stats but seems unable to make actual sense of them, beyond the surface level. People go where the jobs are, not where they prefer to be. With more people than ever being out of jobs, the only way they magically move to the countryside and stay there is if we place them on permanent welfare. 'The people' don't get to decide anything. They are sheep, for shepherds to play with. Grapes of wrath by Steinbeck expressed this in a way an average American can relate to.