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[–]roastpotatothief 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This autumn a famine. You'll notice rice and flour are slightly more expensive. Fruit and meat will be a lot more expensive. But in poor countries even stables will be unaffordable.

In winter another a bigger covid outbreak and concurrently a big flu outbreak.

More total surveillance. By Autumn all phones will have some kind of pandemic tracker software built in, and it will be illegal to leave the house without a phone in some countries. Infrared cameras in train stations checking people's identities and health. The barrier will not open if there is some problem with identifying you as healthy.

Mandatory vaccines. A pass you have to carry everywhere with the date of your last vaccine.

Protest will be heavily restricted. It is not permitted today anywhere, and it will stay that way.

People will socialise less. Pubs and cafes will close. Rural communities will die. Mental illness. More psychotic behaviour like random violence.

On the other hand rural areas will become more populous, as people start telecommuting more and moving out of cities.

Allotments, rearing chickens, small scale farming will become popular.