link to original reddit post by /u/Anen-o-me
###Masks
For all the anger expressed about mask mandates I have seen on the sub and trading papers about how they don't work, I sometimes have to chuckle. Isn't it awesome from a privacy point of view?
We used to live in a society where wearing a mask in public would get you funny looks and possibly even the cops called on you, and it was outright illegal in some places to wear a face mask due to certain violent protestors doing it to avoid prosecution.
But now, the entire world has embraced the mask.
Way back in 2012 I attended my first libertarian conference in San Diego, called Libertopia. Great west coast conference if you ever get the chance.
There was a group of radical privacy libertarians who showed up to that conference wearing masks and badges with fake names. They had committed to wearing masks and sunglasses in public in perpetuity in order to reclaim privacy.
I attend the talk by one of them and he said that we should not expect others to respect our privacy, we can simply take our privacy into our own hands by covering up when outside.
I thought it was an interesting idea, if quirky. How that anonymous group of Germans must have laughed when the whole world forced people to wear masks. They undoubtedly love that aspect of the pandemic.
So yeah, I don't even care if the mask prevents transmission or not, I wear it for privacy, and now that mask wearing has been completely legitimized, we can continue wearing a mask into the future when the normies stop. And if questioned, we can just say we have a cold, like the Japanese do.
###Deficit Spending
Holy fuck has the federal government been on a spending spree thanks to the pandemic, leading to a massive, massive increase in cryptocurrency prices. Bitcoin broke $60k. Biden's about to spend another $1.9 trillion now. Insane.
And the more they borrow big without the system exploding the more they will convince themselves that they've 'solved the problem' and hyper-inflation can't happen to them.
Which brings forward the dollar-implosion timetable significantly. No one knows the when or where, but it's coming, just like the great depression came.
Have some savings in crypto already.
###mRNA therapy approved
mRNA tech has been in the world for decades and finally broke through with the covid vaccine.
This has implications that go far, far beyond this pandemic. mRNA tech is the biggest leap forward in therapy in a long time, enabling gene therapy for a whole host of problems that were impossible to stop under the old vaccine paradigms.
This could even lead to curing all kinds of cancers and the like. They can genetically sequence your specific cancer and produce an mRNA sequence to kill they specific cancer. It's able to do that quickly and cheaply and on an individual basis.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if it was tech that the big healthcare corporations were holding back from going mainstream because they had no answer to it. Covid forced authorities hand to approve it, and the covid vaccine is literally the least impressive thing it may end up doing. There's even talk of a cure for diabetes now because they can use mRNA tech to repair the islet cells that are unable to produce insulin.
There's a good chance this tech could save your life or that is a loved one, it's very broadly applicable.
###Cops were exposed in 2020
For decades we have spoken, along with other groups, about the abuses of cops, and 2020 brought that into focus for a lot of people that wanted to deny it was happening.
###So many people working from home!
This pandemic converted practically the entirely country into distance workers!
All those people will now realize they could be doing their job from the comfort of a seastead one day instead of commuting to work, and a lot of people don't want to go back to the previous status quo.
###Microchip shortage!
There's so much demand for chips right now that Samsung and TSMC are both building chip fabs on US soil currently, to address chip shortages. So many people stayed at home and had to update their home PC to do distance work, and so many servers had to expand to host Zoom conferences!
###Every kid schooled at home!
Not quite "home schooling" but still the experience of it and the tech to do it all became mainstream in the last year.
There's a good chance that a number of distance learning schools will survive the pandemic, and this shows how quickly a society could abandon State-sponsored schooling.
###Lockdowns galvanized small business
Small business have been utterly devastated by forced lockdowns, it's a lesson they will not soon forget. They now know, without any doubt, the State will throw them under a bus with no mercy.
Many of them may have become receptive to the message of liberty as a result. I personally know one friend of a friend who lost her restaurant during the pandemic.
Well that's about all I can think of right now, but I'll bet some of you can think of a few more.
Rather than continuing to focus on moral outrage, let's view this as the opportunity that it is; a lot of what happened stuff has positive implications from a libertarian perspective!