Secondary effects of Coronavirus (some positive, some negative, depending on beliefs/views):

↗️ = increase, ↘️ = decrease – no moral bias. My thoughts included.

– Remote work / work from home ↗️ (acceptance of the experiment that has already begun – many studies coming out of Beijing suggest productivity has INCREASED due to work from home).

Traffic and congestion ↘️ (decrease in CO2, etc).

– Fuel bills ↘️ (people discover they don’t need their cars as much as they once assumed).

– Automotive accidents ↘️ (of all kinds).

– Insurance industry ↗️↘️ (initial increase due to airline/holiday failures, then a widespread decrease when people discover that the industry is broken and needs overhauling).

– Homeschooling ↗️ (+ test of methods/technologies for future schooling practices).

– Hand washing ↗️ (increase in basic hygiene & social mores. Less seeing dudes walking out of toilets without washing hands! You can now touch the peanuts – no pun intended).

– Conventional flu & colds ↘️ (massively down, due to society more aware and practicing better hygiene).

– Birthrate ↗️ (use your imagination)

– Monogamy ↗️

– Empty arena sporting events ↗️ (+ underperformance of players involved in empty arena games. Historically a bore!)

– Mental health issues ↗️ (most people can’t work for long periods in isolation with their own thoughts)

– Restaurant bookings ↘️ (you can now get that Saturday table anywhere at last minute!)

– Airline industry + holiday industry ↘️ (obvious. many more companies to fall due to falling margins/weak industry +virus concerns)

– Software/hardware companies ↗️ (increase in speeds, infrastructure & accessibility to cope with work-from-home demand).

– Marriages ↘️ (due to concern of large gatherings of people).

– Internet dating ↗️ (less ability to meet people in person = more online-only relationships)

– Home cooked meals ↗️ (more time at home, plus less eating out. Also, more drinking at home).

– Netflix ↗️

– Pornography ↗️

– eSports industry ↗️

– Online grocery shopping ↗️ (more availability of items vs. bulk buy hit physical stores + paranoia of going to stores themselves).

Next 2 are big but could go either way. Both have a small chance of occurring, but more a mental exercise:

– Increased privatisation of medicine in the UK (strong arguments could be made to push for this, see: Black Swan event).

– Increased SOCIALISATION of medicine in the USA (strong arguments could be made to push for this, see: Black Swan event.)

In the aftermath, the research studies will be more about social science than medical science.

A massive discovery that people can be motivated to work towards the health & safety of others if their own health & safety is secured with the exact same methods.