Topic: COVID advanced the world into the future (Read 3225 times)

This is all about politics. This is like weapon manufacturer benefit from wars. In most wars everything can be negotiated through compromises, but it is more profitable to start a war campaign and spend billion, than let diplomats find a solution that suits both sides.

I am pretty much sure, that when manufacturers will earn enough, COVID will just disappear in few weeks. Like bird flu, swine flu and ebola. There is no real "advance into the future". I cant say that it is conspiracy, but like COVID suddenly appear, it will disappear suddenly.

Well, that's the point if we are to live with the virus. The vaccine is our so-called protection to the virus so there are scientific studies provided to prove it (they say). So what I'm trying to point out is that in this aspect, the vaccine is one of the keys to at least somehow we can still live like we use to be. But yeah I'd agree that these manufacturers are just milking the people, but what can we do we can't even see what we are up to.

Almost two years have passed since the virus was first detected in China. For the last 14 days, the United States has reported a total of 27,440 deaths. I find it hard to believe that despite all the advance in the medical technology, it is not possible to contain a flu virus in 24 months. Now a lot of the analysts are saying that we need to learn on how to live with the virus. If that was the case, then what is the point in getting everyone vaccinated? The only ones who are benefitting from this situation are vaccine manufacturers like Pfizer and Moderna.

Covid-19 had opened our eyes to see what the future has for us and it's had make many persons to have a person thinking about having there own investment rather waiting for companies to pay you for job weldone. He pandemic affect almost everybody but also bring in the importance new era of digital life that show be adopted. Bitcoin and other altcoins were able to surge high during the  same period. We now have a future of digital money and trades that can be embraced by all.

If we speak about science or medicine, then we can say that thanks to covid it has advanced to future or developed. Instead of one vaccine, we have multiple now, we have different approaches how to cure and scenarios. Due to covid, most managed to find out weak links in their work and substitute it or develop. That is all about technology.

But people imho did not advance to future. With all this restrictions, lockdowns, closed school, home education and etc, people has made a step back. Our development was limited. Only few had chances to improve or develop.

That is why we are in a sort of a balance. Improvement in something (+) and unimprovement as people (-). Which leads to standing on the same place (0).

Well we can't actually tell that because viruses have different variants and the medical equipment or vaccines that are being developed each day aren't the solution for the new variants. I believe that the medical science are improving daily, it's just that viruses are very strong and many of them is really hard to create a solution. If there's a solution then another variant come or new viruses will pop up out of nowhere so it's non-stop and we thought that it doesn't advanced our medical science but it is really improving right now.

We had such "gigantic outbreaks" several times in the past. Ebola pandemics have occurred in Africa multiple times in the past two decades (although the death toll was in tens of thousands, and not in millions). One century ago, it was the Spanish Flu pandemic which killed millions of people. Before that it was the small pox pandemic and the black death. But these pandemics didn't contributed much to medical science. If that was the case, then the current COVID 19 pandemic must have never occurred.

That's true, a few pandemics did occur during the last 10-20 years, but they weren't that widespread. Let's look at the definition of the word pandemic once more, "it's an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, such as multiple continents or worldwide" (Wikipedia). Thus, just because we weren't affected at some time doesn't mean it didn't occur.

A few examples include the SARS and MERS coronaviruses, which were also declared pandemics, and most of us here were alive to experience it, or not?

I don't want to blame social media. In Twitter and Facebook, I can find a lot of useful information about vaccination. But there is a section who try to scare away people from vaccination centers by spreading unfounded rumors. Now it is up to the ordinary people to decide which side they want to trust. Naturally I would go for the information from the scientific channels, as their claims are supported by clinical findings. If someone want to ignore all this and listen only to the anti-vaxxer lobby, then it is his problem (and not the problem with social media). And in a way, I would call this natural selection. The planet has too many retarded and low-IQ people.

It is true that at least many companies must finally move forward to improve the technology system. Because during the pandemic, technological progress is very rapid, everything is required to be completely online. Can do buying and selling without meeting face to face and transact easily. This is a positive thing we can get from this condition,

Well before you say "COVID 19 is not the first virus pandemic" or  "I don' think that these pandemics have contributed anything to medical science." Maybe you could weigh in the factors that we have never had such a gigantic outbreak before, in history and the corona virus is called the novel corona virus for a reason. Its new. Its never been observed in humans before. So I mean, both those things kind of contradict what you claim.

I don't know why these demonstrably false narratives are propagated, but it's clear to me that these types of disinformation campaigns are only possible because of the ease of mass communications made possible by social media.  Older generations didn't have these capabilities, and society was generally smarter and better off because of it.

I don't completely agree with this statement. COVID 19 is not the first virus pandemic. Even in the recent times, we had multiple pandemics caused by virus strains. MERS and SARS are examples. I don' think that these pandemics have contributed anything to medical science. If that was the case, then the current pandemic would have got contained much earlier. Now we are almost two years in to the pandemic and I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. Stock markets have gone up (that might have happened even without the pandemic). Otherwise I don't see any other positive for the last two years.

either coming from  Covid or not the important part of this situation is the idea that Many more people goes inside the crypto.

the search in Google increase thousand percent since the pandemic starts and with this?  meaning crypto world is advancing to the future , and i believe that this pandemic also the reason why El salvador pushes the acceptance of Bitcoin to their country .

because you are locked down so you have time to souls search?

Any hardship, no matter how small or large has always been a driving factor for human progress. Wars especially. As far as I can tell, all of human or even animal evolution is based on the simple principle of suffering and finding ways to alleviate that suffering. As far as Covid goes, I think it was a very necessary "drill" so that we can be better prepared for the next virus, which may be much, much deadlier.

I dont know if it is sad or what but it makes you ponder, makes your sadness as your strength. Your life is messy then fix it, how? Discover it while you have time , take risk . I also lost a job and i have a family to feed thats the time the pandemic hits and it makes me ponder that i really spending much money to not important things so now i am starting to got up and hoping that it would be successful soon. Good luck to your life we can do this !

The benefit that I think I get from covid is that it gives me time to sit back and reflect on my current messy life. But it also took away so many other opportunities in life that I intended to take. But it is interesting that people are more interested in crypto when the epidemic breaks out.

Advance in what way? lots of people lost their respective jobs and barely living as of this moment. Moreover, business establishments was force to close down which results to bad economic condition. If the idea of the future you were talking about is like this, thats too bad and not really good in my opinion

The economic impact of COVID-19 has been very clear since the pandemic hit until now. Many lives were lost, many companies closed, incomes decreased, the scope of work narrowed and poverty increased and many people lost their jobs. After almost 2 years of this pandemic, all of us must be able to assess which party will benefit the most and which party will be harmed due to government policies and due to the implementation of the new normal. The demand for goods online is increasing while physical shopping is decreasing and that is the impact of changes in human civilization that want to prevent the transmission of covid 19. I know this is also an advantage when it comes to being online, but being online will not help the whole community to improve their economy either way. Only certain groups of people and entities can profit online, while others may not.

Covid 19 helps the online economy grow, but doesn't help boost the economy of healthcare workers "nurse" who treat patients except for big officials and most of the government. At least that's the opinion of one of my friends who works as a health worker at a hospital not far from where I live. According to his confession, he earns a salary from treating COVID-19 patients and and patients with other diagnoses of $100 to $150 monthly for "non-civil servant" work. I don't think that's a fair enough amount to accept because the risks of the job are huge. I don't know what he thought that he had to put up with such a high-stakes job, but the economic factor and the difficulty of getting a new job were the most likely reason for him in my opinion. I want to hear, is this also happening in your country or where you live?

Nothing we can do but to try what is best to continue to live, looking at the lighter not a brighter
Indeed this pandemic bring more ideas how to maximized the use of the online system.

Learning how to deal with buy and sell, promoting products that was locally made and try not to go out during the time that government advise.

Some of those things that personally we learned that helps us to stay safe but continue surviving from this situations.