What made you happy during this coronavirus pandemic?

I became happy during the coronavirus pandemic because the virus stopped us on our track towards an inevitable global meltdown, as we were approaching our own civilization-ending explosion, following all previous recurring vicious cycles in Human history.

As we are focusing on fighting the virus and turn our attention to the ensuing socio-economic crisis with unprecedented unemployment, bankruptcies, closure of businesses, reshaping of societies, we tend to forget that it was not the virus which caused all this, but the pandemic simply brought the inevitable ending closer, sharper, while also giving us a few weeks, months hiatus, pause to think, prepare.

Of course, the question is how many people actually used the time to rethink the goals, aspirations, purpose we live our lives for, if we truly need those “must-have”, “must-see” things, services, entertainments we were literally “dying for”, sacrificing our lives for before?!

How many people started to consider that perhaps the revival of the family connections, building new, deeper Human connections over virtual lines, the miraculous recovery of the natural environment as Humanity retreated, a better, healthier, simplified is more important than to blindly return to our lives from before (especially that this previous lifestyle, Human system is unsustainable even with trillions of dollars of bailout, stimulus packages poured into it)?

It seems to me that there are many of these people, even millions of them who are ready and prepared to explore new ways of living, cooperating, catering for our healthy, modern, Human necessities. These people will be able to secure a shorter, easier transition to the next phase of Human development if they learn how to work together and use their mutually responsible and mutually complementing interconnections, cooperation — above and despite their differences — to move forward.