“All lockdowns and mask orders could end tomorrow and it will still take years to return to pre-covid levels of tourism and outdoor gatherings...”. I agree. Never underestimate the power of fear as a restrictor on your activities.
But here’s the thing: remember the 2007-08 financial/housing crisis and how they said it would take 10yrs for the real estate market to return to normal? Well, it DID take a lot of years, depending upon where you were living BUT THERE WAS NO FEAR FACTOR AS AN INHIBITER. And now this whole fake covid lockdown has has the same devestating financial impact on millions of people, mainly the low-skilled who can’t work from home, and the small businesses who hire them and live on small profit margins and have invested their life savings in the future of their small business which is all up in smoke now etc etc PLUS NOW ADD IN THE FEAR FACTOR of going out to public events and socializing at events like parades, art fairs and other summer festivals, eating out, going to the movies etc and people are still gonna self-isolate because they have been forced to develop these new habits and ways of going about their daily lives by staying home more.
Plus everybody is getting older and now this will be two yrs out of our lives. It is not going to be worth the time and investment and physical/mental energy necessary to rebuild for us older entrepreneurs.
“All lockdowns and mask orders could end tomorrow and it will still take years to return to pre-covid levels of tourism and outdoor gatherings...”. I agree. Never underestimate the power of fear as a restrictor on your activities.
But here’s the thing: remember the 2007-08 financial/housing crisis and how they said it would take 10yrs for the real estate market to return to normal? Well, it DID take a lot of years, depending upon where you were living BUT THERE WAS NO FEAR FACTOR AS AN INHIBITER. And now this whole fake covid lockdown has has the same devestating financial impact on millions of people, mainly the low-skilled who can’t work from home, and the small businesses who hire them and live on small profit margins and have invested their life savings in the future of their small business which is all up in smoke now etc etc PLUS NOW ADD IN THE FEAR FACTOR of going out to public events and socializing at events like parades, art fairs and other summer festivals, eating out, going to the movies etc and people are still gonna self-isolate because they have been forced to develop these new habits and ways of going about their daily lives by staying home more.
Plus everybody is getting older and now this will be two yrs out of our lives. It is not going to be worth the time and investment and physical/mental energy necessary to rebuild for us older entrepreneurs.