by Five years after the start of the Coronavirus Pandemie, COVID is usually discussed in the past tense – if one thing happened.
But no event as monumental as Covid just disappears. The disease forced us to rearrange our society almost at night. Although the days of Lockdowns and Massa Dood are behind us, the disruption of that scale will certainly have a permanent, if not permanent impact.
America is just a different country today than before Covid arrived, although some after effects are difficult to measure. For example, the Pandemie changed American politics, for example, but how much and in what indications is difficult to quantify, given that all other factors that play.
More than a million dead and count
The most important and obvious result of Covid is all the lives needed – and continues to take. Since the start of the pandemic, more than 1.2 million people in the United States have died of COVID-related diseases. During the first wave of infections, no fewer than 15,000 people died every week. A later, even more fatal Golf, which started at the end of 2020, reached a peak at more than 25,000 weekly deaths. Although those days are happily behind us, Covid still kills hundreds of people every week.
Permanent health effects
The health effect of the virus naturally goes beyond the mortality. There have been more than 100 million confirmed cases of Covid in the US, although that figure probably underestimates the actual totally dramatically. Most people recovered completely, but some did not. Millions reported that dealing with persistent, in some cases debilitating, effects of Long Covid.
In 2024 there were 4 million more Americans with a disability than there were five years earlier. Not all that increase can be immediately attributed to COVID, but there is a significant increase in the number of people who reported a cognitive disability for the past five years.
The way we work
When common areas were abruptly the sites of fatal virus transfer, the workforce of America suddenly had to learn how to do their work remotely. Many of them never returned to the office. According to the most recent available data, more than a third of our employees now do some of all their work from home.
Employers have been trying to get their employees back to the office for years, but with only limited success. Many employees love their external arrangements at home that they would be willing to do a wage reduction or even stop to keep it.
In addition to the impact on individual companies, the rise of external activities has also given a huge blow to the commercial real estate sector. According to one estimate, office buildings throughout the country have lost a total of $ 250 billion in value because so much space is empty. Some cities have anything but stated that some of those offices are once again filled and started with the difficult process of trying to convert them into housing.
The way we learn
The American schools are also en masse in the early stages of the pandemic. In contrast to remote work, which has had an unclear impact on the productivity of employees, distance education for most students proved to be a bad replacement for personal instructions. The disruptions of the pandemic caused widespread learning loss that was still not remedied five years later. Anger about what many fitted were unnecessary or excessively long school closures, contributed to a grim decline of satisfaction with the schools of the nation. The majority of the States has seen registration at the public school fall from pre-Pandemic level.
School closures also served as a spontaneous national experiment in home schooling. Although many parents wanted to bring their children back into the classroom, millions decided that training their children at home was the better choice for their family. HomeSchooling has a long history in the US, but in recent years it has evolved from its religious roots to become more diverse – both in his structure and in the types of families who practice it.
The way we vaccinate
Data from the American schools are also one of the best ways to measure another important post-pandemic social trend: an increased skepticism of vaccines. Anti-vaccine sentiment is nothing new in America. But that vision has always become widespread in recent years because unfounded fears about COVID-19 vaccines seem to have been spilled in more general distrust of all vaccinations. As the recent outbreak of measles in Texas has shown, this shift can have fatal consequences.
The way we look
The film industry received a particularly big blow from the Coronavirus. The annual income from the checkout fell by $ 9 billion after theaters were forced throughout the country. Productions also stopped, which means that there were fewer releases to withdraw the public to the cinema as soon as the safety problems had disappeared. The industry has made considerable progress in recent years, but the output and the income are still far below where they were at the start of the pandemic.
Without a choice at home entertainment, Americans turned to their TVs, and studios gutters in streaming platforms to secure their part of the audience. In the past five years our relationship with Television has changed fundamentally. The traditional cable is crater, while streaming services have grown up. Last year the public looked at 23 million years of streaming content, according to Nielsen. This shift not only influences how we enjoy TV, it can have major consequences for the health of the long -term industry.
The way we spend
In addition to an industry, the Pandemie has had a lasting effect on the US economy as a whole, but not in the way in which the world would have expected when the world came to a halt five years ago. The economy took a dip in the beginning, but recovered quickly – thanks to trillion dollars in stimulus of the congress. At the beginning of 2021 it not only found pandemic losses, but it was rising.
In recent years, steady economic growth, low unemployment, rising wages and record highs have seen on the stock market. But those positive trends are linked to stubborn high inflation that has stimulated the prices of important consumer goods in time to time.
Nowhere is the Post-Pandemic Price Peak Impact Solter than in the houses. An increase in new external employees who were looking for more space and city dwellers who moved to less densely populated areas caused the demand to rise in a housing market that was already dealing with a chronic shortage of supply. In just two years, the average selling price of a house in the US increased by more than $ 150,000. Price pressure not only influenced homeowners. Tenants have also considered their home costs considerably. High interest rates have steady things to a certain extent, but housing is still less affordable than in decades.
