I'm sure most businesses will eventually settle on a hybrid of office/telework. That said I can't differentiate if they're talking about workers who normally commute an hour to the office by car or train or fly coast to coast as part of they're job. Of course if the company makes them a contractor for teleworking it won't be very hard for a competitor to pull that same otherwise talented employee away. On that note for the crowd at large. Serious question. How full has business class been as of late?

*** Danger: Paywall!

WSJ is calling the post-covid economic recovery unprecedented, with minimal lingering damage, and new opportunities and businesses expected to more than make up for what damage there was.

“We’ve never had anything like it—a collapse and then a boom-like pickup,” said Allen Sinai, chief global economist and strategist at Decision Economics, Inc. “It is without historical parallel.”

Inflation might throw a curve-ball, naturally.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-eco...d=hp_lead_pos5

So, “what happens next time?”

I know billions of people are presently being impacted by CV. However, I’m comfortable saying the pandemic has ended in the US. We’re in the psychological recovery period which will extend into flu season. Then what?

From now on there will always be double maskers in our society. I personally believe the government spent their capital on CV overreaction. Current generations won’t stand for another response like the last 18 months-largely acknowledged as very political rather than purely science-based.

*Hopefully* .gov will have a better plan for next time. Whatever you want to say about TSA, Intel, Iraq, Afghan, etc the bad guys have not come close to repeating a 9/11 here. About the best they could do was Boston.

Plan A should be take the fight to the "enemy", ie get ahead of future bugs (whether they live in labs or the wild). Plan B would be the response.

Presumably such a plan should include whole of government and whole of society response, so they'll have a matrix for when and where to offer what types of aid... so you don't have congress critters holding up vital medical and financial aid for museum, performing arts, etc.

Asians have been doing that for as long as I can remember, a few won't hurt anything. Helps to identify people I probably don't want to talk to anyway.

“Whole of government approach.” The key phrase to include in any good Joint PME campaign planning presentation.

The reality is, however, State governments responded a lot better than the Federal government, as was intended. I praise Operation Warp Speed, but this whole experience has proven the need for “civilian oversight” from the actual citizenry. “All politics is local,” and governors are a lot easier to hold to account than any federal official.

Like you I personally applaud anyone who double masks.

It is an oversized correction. Not a recession. So excesses do not have to be wrung out of the market, like most recessions.

Personal opinion which I’ll take to the grave. The reason there has been no repetition of 9/11 is the same reason the terrorist plan wasn’t ever successful for all of that day:

The passengers of UAL Flight 93.

It’s a big world out there and terrorists can choose their time and place. That’s what makes asymmetric warfare work. Terrorists are going to have their victories. But using commercial airplanes as a vehicle for mass destruction was not a technique that was successful even one full day, due to the passengers on that flight. Hopefully everyone remembered their sacrifices too this last Memorial Day.

Yeah I agree that generally local is better but few or no states have the fed's resources for research, funding, and organizing something as complex as pandemic response, or something like warp speed. At the very least the fed needs to provide good data so localities can make informed (vice political or hysterical decisions).

Certainly makes their planning a lot harder (and they don't plan to fail, or throw hail mary's in general).

I know the press gets in a twist when someone reports that TSA "misses 30 percent" of test weapons sent through to check the system but I doubt the terrorists will risk any assets on a 70 percent chance of failure.