Survey: This changes everything?

Above:  "(We're All) Homebound," my current fave online find about our moment.  (Don't know who these people are at all.)  


What's Covid-19  gonna change? Here's a survey to pass the time.

Background: My smarter older brother is a bit of an astronaut, constantly in orbit to global conferences and board meetings on environmental matters.

But recently he cancelled a two-day trip to Germany. He and the twenty-four people he had planned to meet there got all their work done in a couple of hours of online conferencing, each from a different place of isolation somewhere in the world.

They could have done this anytime, he acknowledges. But it took Covid-19 to shake their inertia. He thinks that as this lesson is absorbed by his globe-circling cohorts, business travel will never recover.  One of many permanent transformations to be wrought by this pandemic?

Will Covid-19 permanently change our world?  Or will things fall back into old and familiar normal ways when they are able to? One might think, for instance, that the pandemic would end all opposition to universal healthcare in the United States. But since that has not happened up to now, we have to admit, the forces against it may be deeply enough entrenched to resist even this. 

We're historians. we don't do the future.  But we think we have some familiarity with processes of change (and inertia) over time.

In case you have been pondering this question of what and how much Covid-19 will change, I've set up a two-question survey to collect your wisdom.  I'll leave it open a few days.