After the COVID-19 crisis ends, what does our ‘new normal’ look like?

There are several possible scenarios as our world tumbles through this pandemic

Even futurist Nikola Danaylov didn’t see it coming.

The virus that has spread like a fever also scorched his keynote gigs, gone at least until the end of the year. Roughly 95 per cent of his income lost. “We all have to reinvent ourselves,” Danaylov, author and popular blogger, says with surprising calm.

The question now is, how are we going to reinvent ourselves as a human species?

“We will not go back to what life was like before January of this year,” Canada’s chief public health officer, Theresa Tam, said this week in releasing updated COVID-19 prognostications. Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu also summoned our post-pandemic future in a briefing, saying testing is just one layer of the health safety net needed to “arrive at the new normal.”

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Sharon Kirkey – National Post – May 2, 2020.