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Covid is the black mirror

We're in wartime-like circumstances requiring significant sacrifice. An interesting side-effect of this is the "new normal". Window of acceptable behaviour has changed dramatically in one week. Things like open offices, UBI, socialized medicine and general innovation

Covid-19 has rapidly accelerated the virtual office trend. Many will agree that open offices are contrary to focus. The cost of real estate is not cheap. If businesses can prove that they can function reasonably at home - during a pandemic. Then when people aren't anxious I imagine productivity could be much higher.

Moving operational tools to the cloud was already in style but there wasn't a tremendous urgency. Covid19 will be the #1 driver of an organizational digital transformation. Laptop and asset procurement

With so many people reliant on the gig economy and hourly work for basic survival it's an interesting time. As CERB comes to an end I hope everyone with have rental properties, are treating their tenants fairly.

Universal Basic Income - where a once in a century event like a global pandemic when we need to lockdown to save lives and our healthcare system, is personal responsibility the best we as a society can provide? CERB and the like in Canada really helped things from getting pretty dark. In it's current state it was not seen as sustainable. Many students didn't go for jobs when they could collect covid assistance. It's easy to see them as lazy however, many who did go back to work in service industry jobs then became vectors. Some of the 20-somethings were due to parties and social gatherings but some were related to them being on the front-lines of the service industry.

Here in Canada, no one's going bankrupt over covid. In the US, I'm not sure what type of bill you could expect, especially for some of the therapeutics we're seeing in rapid (tax-payer funded) development

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