In 30-40 yrs someone will discover a covid vax card and it will blow their mind.

iamstop

People not born yet will learn about how covid shut the world down for 2 years and it will freak them out.

ohnonotgmail

They'll be too busy cracking open skulls and feasting on the goo inside to worry about stuff like that.

mikethecop

because covid was the first global pandemic ever to happen ........

seamus

It won't actually be all that shocking. Two world wars shut the planet down for half a decade, and people aren't "freaked out". Curious certainly, hard to comprehend what it was like, but not a mind-blowing thought.

In 2010 an erupting volcano shut down all air travel in Europe for over a week and caused more than a month of air travel disruption, with much speculation that it could go on for months. At the time it seemed like the most insane, unprecedented disruption to life in modern history. Yet I bet you forgot all about it until I just reminded you of it.

Within a decade, Covid will be nothing but a memory. It won't exist as an open sore or something we spend any real time talking about.

maestroamado

I was thinking of setting a pop-up don't-do business selling anything that's kinda half legal... i know a few bars that were buzzing last summer when we were told we could drink on the street anywhere within a mile from the pub and we could piss anywhere except in the pub toilets... I dropped into one of them Sunday evening and there were 4 including me...

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118861796#Comment_118861796

According to the University of Facebook.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118861878#Comment_118861878

You dropped into a pub toilet with 4 other fellas?

maestroamado

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118861896#Comment_118861896

shhhhh don't tell anyone...

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118861833#Comment_118861833

You're kind of making my point for me. The way the volcano shutting down travel for a month has pretty much faded from memory for most people who read about it but were not directly affected by it.

But Covid had a far larger reach in both time and space. It has disrupted most economies and continues to affect supply chains.

There is very little physical items that would directly spark intrigue into the volcano but if in 30 years someone finds their parent's vax card they are going to wonder what it is/was and do a web search. They'll discover the shutdowns, the protests, the death toll and a lot more about covid. It will be an interesting chapter in history. The volcano will be a mere footnote.

They may be amazed at our lifestyle. After steady economic growth and lengthening lifespans, it now looks like there will be a retrenchment in living standards, in the west, anyway, but places in africa and the middle east may collapse bigtime, talking dark ages type stepback. Syria being the protoype.