Espected consequences (and not even) of the COVID-19

Abstract

Despite  some  warnings,  the  COVID-19  pandemic  came  and  caught  countries and  governments  unprepared.  A  huge  discussion  was  openedabout  its  immediate  and future,   probable   and   possible   consequences.   The   article   summarizes   part   of   this discussion  that  takes  place  through the  media,  social  networks  and  academia,  and  that covers   a   wide   range,   from   no   significant   changes   to   the   end   of   capitalism.   The consequences are divided between the visible impacts (on health, on the economy, on the spread of the use of TIs, on the increase of inequalities, on the technological race between the USA and China, on violence against women and on the strategic valuation of the health sector),  probable (changes in urban  configuration, reflux of globalization, retreat of  the wave of far rightand greater tension between the USA and China) and possible (growth of   green parties,   cooling   of    neoliberalism,   greater   relevance   of   initiatives   for environmental preservation and valuation of social relations conviviality).