The way almost all countries deal with the pandemic suggests that something else is being prepared for us. What exactly, let's try to assume that we are expecting a big economic crisis.
Of course, now they are already writing about the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, but look out the window, have you noticed how the number of cars on the roads has decreased? I think that their number has not changed in any way. Moreover, car sales slipped even less than during the previous wave of the economic crisis in 2009.
The first covid-lockdown seems, in the opinion of someone, to not make the reduction in economies that is required. And it seems that powerful guys in this world to hope that for the second time we will definitely shut down some of them, even some small enterprise try to not give up.
Take restaurants for example. The fact that they are most affected during a pandemic is obvious. There are two forms of business in the restaurant business: small family restaurants and big chain restaurants like Mc Donalds. In the case of a restaurant alone, if it closes, then the owner most often simply leaves such a business and, like any normal businessman, looks for other opportunities. A crisis for a normal person is a time of new opportunities. And even if he doesn't look at the world like that, being shocked by such a lockdown, he decides to leave restaurant bissiness forever.
In the case of chain restaurants, even during the crisis, if they do not continue to work, they receive government assistance to which they have easier access, and many working on a franchise can get help from their franchisor, usually located in the United States, where they spend trillions of dollars to help, at first big enterprises.
As a result, there will be more restaurants in the world actually operated from the United States, and the stronger the crisis, the more it will spread, the stronger this dependence will be. This can be extended a whole countries, the poorer they are now, the more they will depend on the United States and its allies.
And finally, I picked up some interesting comments on this article on robotizing agriculture.
It's not just physical/environmental issues with humans, its their unpredictability psychosocially and propensity for greed, sadism and self gratification that is the real problem, but then again the natural world has always dealt with these problems over time.
Meanwhile, NASA is off to the Moon and Mars in case we fail here on Earth and convert our planet surface to be like... Mars. We should be putting efforts into solving planet wide problems, because we are not going to stop over populating it any time soon unless a new strain of Covid comes out that makes you sterile.
In any article like this there are always comments along the line of "but the real issue is over-population etc etc". Am I missing something, but what is the commenters proposal to solve this - it one of those weird conspiracy theory things?? Genuine question .
In 70's a book called The Godwhale by TJ Bass described a society the was so large it lived entirely underground as all the available land was needed for crops tended by machines, the plants had become so dependant on the machines they even needed them for pollination, the land and oceans had long been sterile apart from engineered genes Here we go, it's a Brave New World brought to you by Google