How The Coming Plague Will Hit Your Home and Workplace

The coming plague, most likely an influenza like the coronavirus now walloping China, will affect your business and your life.

Live with people, not their virus, Christyl Rivers

Just as the coronavirus has upset Wall Street gains and created chaos in global markets. For the next epidemic, or if this one goes pandemic, it is likely that the many intersections of commerce, distribution, prices, human health, and culture will result in many an unexpected collision

Nevertheless, here we will endeavor to follow some expected ones.

Predicted perils

With the present coronavirus, several different types of industry and commerce are affected. Many of these have been warned about for years, because air travel, commerce, climate warming, and epidemiology, have studied the past, present, and predicted outbreaks of the future.

We are hearing about decreases in airline travel, (and the air ships themselves) hotel, restaurant, entertainment — from films, to casinos, to public shows — and tourism.

There is a great impact in all transportation, including automobiles.

For example, Starbucks has closed hundreds of outlets in China. Then there are the tech industries, the shopping decreases, and banks and lenders. Investment outlets, being dependent upon all…