COVID-19: The Great Reset

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• Global credit crisis erupts whole source

  why so many economists failed to predict the credit crisis (in 2008)

• Arab Spring uprisings begin whole source

  why so few political scientists saw the Arab Spring coming (in 2011)

• Exponential growth of COVID-19 cases in March 2020 whole source

  if a pandemic grows at 30% a day (as COVID-19 did around mid-March for some of the worst affected countries), registered cases (or deaths) w…

• COVID-19 statistics: 2.3 million cases, 121,000 deaths by June 24 whole source

  on 24 June 2020, more than 2.3 million were diagnosed with COVID-19 and almost 121,000 people had died

• WHO annual budget established at minimal level whole source

  in 2018, it had an annual budget of $4.2 billion, miniscule in comparison to any health budget around the world

• China-US relations reach worst level since formal ties whole source

  the fallout from the pandemic has pushed China–US relations to their worst level since 1979, when formal ties were established

• China and US establish diplomatic relations whole source

  since 1979, when formal ties were established

• First Opium War shapes Chinese historical consciousness whole source

  The Chinese view of the world and its place in it is influenced by the humiliation suffered during the first Opium War in 1840

• Eight-Nation Alliance invades China whole source

  the subsequent invasion in 1900 when the Eight Nation Alliance looted Beijing and other Chinese cities before demanding compensation

• Amsterdam adopts the doughnut economics framework whole source

  The municipality of Amsterdam is the first in the world to have formally committed to this framework as a starting point for public policy d…

• 1,100 experts release degrowth manifesto whole source

  leading more than 1,100 experts from around the world to release a manifesto in May 2020 putting forward a degrowth strategy

• Productivity growth begins declining in high-income economies whole source

  In high-income economies, productivity growth has been steadily declining since the 1970s

• Jacob Wallenberg warns of social unrest from prolonged crisis whole source

  If the crisis goes on for long, unemployment could hit 20-30 per cent while economies could contract by 20-30 per cent ... There will be no…

• Black mortality rate from COVID-19 exceeds white Americans whole source

  At the end of June 2020, the mortality rate inflicted by COVID-19 on black Americans was 2.4 times higher than for white Americans

• African American unemployment spikes to 16.8 percent whole source

  In May 2020, unemployment among African Americans stood at 16.8% (versus a national level of 13.3%)

• Hurricane Katrina triggers looting and escape scenarios whole source

  such scenes as the recent escape of prisoners in Italy or the looting that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 might become co…

• Jin Qi predicts long-term human coexistence with COVID-19 whole source

  This is very likely to be an epidemic that co-exists with humans for a long time, becomes seasonal and is sustained within human bodies

• Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 provides historical parallel whole source

  the first wave is followed by a larger wave that takes place in the third or fourth quarter of 2020, and one or several smaller subsequent w…

• Apple and Google partner on contact tracing whole source

  The announcement made in April by Apple and Google that they are collaborating to develop an app that health officials could use to reverse-…

• Fewer than 30 countries implement contact tracing apps whole source

  At the end of June 2020, the experience with tracing apps was recent and mixed. Fewer than 30 countries had put them in place.

• UK abandons homegrown contact tracing app whole source

  the UK, following technical glitches and criticism from privacy activists, made a U-turn and decided to replace its domestically-developed c…

• France launches StopCovid app to weak uptake whole source

  in France, just three weeks after being launched, the StopCovid app had simply failed to take off, with a very low rate of adoption (1.9 mil…

• Zoom valuation surpasses major US airlines whole source

  the market capitalization of Zoom (the videoconferencing company) that skyrocketed to $70 billion in June 2020, higher (at that time) than t…

• Amazon and Walmart hire 250,000 workers whole source

  In the US, Amazon and Walmart hired a combined 250,000 workers to keep up with the increase in demand

• British medical consultations shift to virtual delivery whole source

  In Britain, less than 1 percent of initial medical consultations took place via video link in 2019; under lockdown, 100 percent are occurrin…

• Hertz files for bankruptcy whole source

  Hertz, a highly indebted company with a fleet of 700,000 cars overwhelmingly idled during the lockdowns, filed for bankruptcy in May

• British Airways cuts 30 percent of workforce whole source

  British Airways, for one, has announced that it will cut up to 30% of its current workforce of 42,000 employees

• Zoonotic diseases quadruple over past 50 years whole source

  In a recent letter to the US Congress, 100 wildlife and environmental groups estimate that zoonotic diseases have quadrupled over the past 5…

• Land-use changes drive majority of zoonotic disease risk whole source

  A recent academic review concludes that agriculture drivers are associated with more than 50% of zoonotic diseases

• China bans wildlife trade after COVID-19 whole source

  the Chinese authorities have since permanently banned wildlife trade and consumption

• SARS epidemic reveals air pollution-mortality link whole source

  As early as 2003, a study published in the midst of the SARS epidemic suggested that air pollution might explain the variation in the level…