I am with you. You don’t just recover from a complete unraveling. The economy is not a light switch. People are in complete denial. An economic depression that lasts a long time is already here.
I have been posting that growing up, I heard about the Great Depression 10,000 times more than the Spanish Flu. The Spanish flu was far worse than this overhyped virus. That tells you how bad a depression is!
People have no clue, and are playing their fun virus “stay safe” games, but they are about to get hit upside the head in a brutal way. It will recalibrate everyone’s priorities to where just finding food and shelter will become a challenge for millions.
I think technology will make the recovery time faster than before.
I once asked my mother, who was born in 1915, about why we never heard anything about that Spanish flu pandemic and she said she thought that was because people just wanted to put it out of their minds and forget about it. Also, more people went through World War II in formative years. People who are a little bit older and in mid life during the world war one era we’re gone by the time Boomers started growing up. Of course the depression lasted much longer too.
I am not disagreeing with you, but there may be a variety of factors why we heard so much more about the depression than the Spanish flu.
I don't believe that we will have a depression (yet).
I think we will have a severe recession with millions of jobs gone and not returning.
Hopefully those people will be able to find other work. But many will not.