If the health recommendations by the CDC and others are implemented, the coronavirus scare may be over in a couple of months. If so, there will be few social-economic changes. The longer the health recommendations stay in effect, the greater the social-economic changes. Here are my first thoughts on what may happen in the United States because of the virus:

• Telemedicine will increase considerably
• An entrepreneur will initiate drive-by laboratory testing
• Death rates for the elderly and the infirm will increase thus reducing the strain on our health care system
• Pharmaceutical production will increase in the United States
• Products made in the United States will increase because people will want us to be less dependent on other countries for the products we use
• Video teaching will dramatically increase
• Brick and mortar universities and colleges will have a substantial decrease in enrollment
• Some liberal art colleges and universities will close because of lack of enrollment
• Technical schools will dramatically increase enrollment because people will realize that technical training provides a better economic opportunity than do universities.
• Enrollment for those seeking to become doctors, nurses, attorneys, engineers, and other nonacademic professions will remain the same
• Some college professors will find themselves teaching high school via video conferencing
• The home entertainment industry will flourish
• Massive film projects will diminish when compared with cottage film companies because people will realize that a smaller crew can make just as good film as a larger crew
• Book sales will increase
• Online purchasing will dramatically increase
• Online communication will increase
• Social media will flourish
• Family bonding will increase–families will do more things together
• Families will eat more meals together
• Neiborhood bonding will increase
• By this time next year birth rates will increase
• An entrepreneur will develop a family-style take home restaurant franchise
• People will continue to wash their hands more and practice health guidelines more seriously
• Alcohol consumption will increase
• Spiritual values will increase

That’s all I can think of for now. And of course, none of these things will happen if the semi-quarantine is brief. I will give a follow-up report on my predictions one year from now.

PS: If any of you can think of other changes, please let me know.

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