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by ladino 2284 days ago
- Door handles made of brass / copper (kill bacteria, viruses and fungi) are retrofitted in many households.

- Significantly less tourism in 2020. Maybe a peak in 2021.

- More divorces.

- Higher unemployment rate.

- Less globalization. There are other triggers for this, such as the current (and expected) US foreign policy.

- A shift in the age pyramid, with various consequences!

- Greater spread / acceptance of bidets. Spread of systems that retrofit a kind of bidet for western toilets.

- Faster changes to the law for drone deliveries.

- More privately owned firearms.

- More doomsday prepper.

- bank consolidation. Especially in the United States.

- I'm curious to see what happens to all of the sub-prime car loans in the United States that used to blow cars up to very poor Uber drivers. They drive for +/- 0 Uber and then drive to the 2nd and 3rd job. One of the jobs breaks away.

- Higher mortality rates for various diseases because hospitals and health systems are overloaded.

- More vegeterians and pasters.

- High capacity utilization in cemeteries, undertakers and crematoriums.

- Much, much more blatant two-tier medicine than before.

- Various airport businesses go bankrupt.

- Less just-in-time, but more local stocks / buffers. In all stations of the supply chain.

- Blatant price changes in food. The prices for mussels, eels and lobsters have dropped by up to 70% in some markets!

- A lot of assets will migrate from older generations to younger generations.

- More vertical farming, rooftop farming, rooftop bee keeping, etc. in cities.