Originally Posted by
Bahamasflyer
I kinda of agree, but........this was a 100 year event that NO ONE EVER could have imagined, that has messed up the whole world economically, not just our industry, and not just the US.
Sure, I could have predicted a regular recession with demand dropping off as what happened in the early 80's and 90's, but we are talking about a catastrophic world event that has literally affected every single person on the planet in some way, shape or form.
In a nutshell, a 10 year event absolutely could have been imagined, a 100 year event like COVID, absolutely not.
The epidemiologists have been shouting from the roofs that a pandemic was a virtual certainty for years—remember Ebola, SARS, MERS, various flu outbreaks, 1918-19, 1957, 1962. More severe than the public and politicians expected and overreacted to, but not unexpected.