After Covid ends: A tantalising glimpse of the future

As 2021 begins its hair-raising climax, it is tempting to believe that every sector and segment of our lives will remain untouched by the pandemic and in this case, uncertainty holds the throne. However, based on history, we can predict provocative possibilities in the future.

Over time, pandemics have proven to proclaim significant changes in architecture, urban planning along with raising a greater awareness for public health. While there is not much we can recall with the Asian flu (1957) and Hong Kong Flu (1968).  Arguably, with regard to the Spanish flu or, as described by Sigmund Freud in his life of that time, a “sideshow”, or Nebenschauplatz, the after effects were rather anticlimactic than anticipated, not including the fact that at the time, this particular pandemic was subsumed in WWI.

Using imagination to plan the future can be a process to gain at least some control in this hub of uncertainty. People infer that the world will be a changed place after this pandemic ends which is without a doubt, true. However the assessments of oracles who were not minimising this pandemic were generally negative. Cultural agitation and the ascent of extremist systems, hindered social turn of events, psychological wellness emergencies, exacerbated imbalance, and the most exceedingly awful monetary downturns were only a couple stresses talked about by intellectuals and reporters on the news.

Though rare, optimism followed. The troublesome power of the pandemic would give a chance, or a mold, to reshape the world and improve things. Inferences went from better consideration for older folks, to more noteworthy enthusiasm for the protection of nature. 

Specialists anticipated that the common battles and encounters that we face because of the pandemic could cultivate fortitude and unite us. Experts also believed that proactive endeavours and cultural will to achieve primary and political changes toward an all the more and variety comprehensive society. Specialists saw that the pandemic had uncovered imbalances and treacheries in our social orders and trusted that their perceivability may urge social orders to address them.

The future will tell whether and how the current pandemic will change our social order and well, us. But these predictions and inferences can be a light in the middle of a dark tunnel, a guide. As we brace ourselves for a possible wave, these bits of knowledge can fill in as an update that the pandemic may lead not exclusively to stresses yet in addition to expectations for the years ahead.

Dua Hussain has keen interest in news and politics. She can be reached at [e-mail]