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The expected time frame for the economy to return to pre-pandemic levels is 2-3 years (i.e. 2022-23)
Rising prices for many goods and services
A decline in the standard of living of a significant part of the population
The rise of the low-price segment in mass-markets
Resumption or intensification of migration of the skilled and wealthy part of the population
Total digitalization of life at all levels, which, on the one hand, opens up new opportunities (remote projects, education, trade, erasing borders), on the other hand, carries great risks of Orwellian total control and the disappearance of privacy and personal freedom as such (“digital prison”, “digital fascism”)
Some experts believe that we have lived an abnormally long period in a relatively comfortable situation, in peace, without the great upheavals that befell previous generations (what are the 2 world wars in the 20th century worth). Probably, this period of calm and order is over. And we are about to enter a period when the frequency and strength of crises will increase, the chaos, uncertainty and unpredictability of ongoing processes will increase both at the level of individual countries and at the global level.

In fact, the Covid pandemic has indicated that we have find your cell phone number list already entered a period of “new normality” , when “being in crisis, in turbulence will be the norm”. Nadya Zheksembayeva (2) , an international anti-crisis consultant, recommends learning to constantly live and work in “re-assembly” mode both at a personal level and at the level of companies and countries . That is, long-term planning will no longer work, and we must be able to quickly reconfigure all processes and our entire lives at all levels, adapting to “stable chaos”.

Rethinking, re-examining, re-assembling is the main challenge and key skill for adapting to the new reality.

2. Decrease in quality and standard of living

The decline in quality and standard of living is the most significant and sensitive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for many people.

Already at the beginning of the introduction of restrictions due to the virus (March-May 2020), many studies showed that people were more concerned about possible job loss, loss or reduction of income than fear of illness.

And these sentiments were confirmed in later studies. For example, the Eurasian Monitor study (conducted in Kazakhstan by the Strategy Foundation) showed a dramatic decline in the population's satisfaction with their economic situation.