As I was getting ready to write this I heard that a pair of trainers worn once by Michael Jordan sold for over $500,000. It sort of fitted with what I was thinking. There are people with a lot of money to spend.
I had been thinking about the worst case scenario for this virus. The film Contagion is how we want this all to end – with the vaccine saving the world. But there are other films with darker endings, like I am legend, or maybe The Lost Future. Or perhaps the best would be the series Survivors.
What would the world look like if this virus continues to mutate and the vaccine does not arrive. The Canada/USA, NZ and Vietnam situations got me thinking about it. Closing access to others – creating a closed border. How long would it be before gated communities for the rich became well defended communities excluding those that might be infected?
But with the local lockdowns you can see this as a more general way of going forward.
So it got me to thinking, are our communities geographic these days? For some time I have seen my community becoming more and more spread out – all over the world. I’ve chatted with people in three countries already this week.
But each of us have things like church communities, football communities, school communities, family communities and pastime communities (football being closer to a religion than a pastime for many). In a world where the virus stays a real threat then the big risk would be the interface between all these communities. So if I had to reduce my communities to only one or two, what would I choose?