At absolute minimum:
1) Supply & demand has been reallocated across the economy, with travel & events zero'd out, remote work & masks to infinity
2) Virus permanently changes public behavior
3) Supply chain disruption just starting
Even if the virus did vanish in a puff of smoke and everyone went "back to work", the behavior of billions of people and every country has been permanently changed.
Demand won't quickly come back, borders won't easily reopen, international relations won't be the same.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1246151098986983424
The obvious one for me is the movie theaters but what else?
https://twitter.com/needacoin/status/1246191483746574337
what do you think---are entire industries about to disappear because of the pandemic? will some aspects of the economy and general life irreversibly change after this?
or are these people just drama queens who are blowing everything out of proportion? maybe people will forget all about the coronavirus in a couple years time and nothing will change. that's what happened after the H1N1 scare.
Surely, after the pandemic, people will be afraid to go out of the country or be with a swarm of people. This could in turn affect small scale businesses and even industries like malls, movie theaters, and the like. However, we can't be sure that those businesses will die out and not be functional anymore. As soon as we have the vaccine or the world is COVID-19 free, little by little, the movement of goods and people will stabilize once again.