I agree. If anyone thinks that upon a vaccine being found and distributed globally that the economies of the world will start to return to the ways things were, I think they are deluded. Firstly, we cannot discount the emergence of a Covid20, or Covid2x
This mere prospect is enough to know that, in order to avoid major political and economic upheaval in the decade ahead, we are now on the cusp of a new economic order.
The limitations of measurements like GDP and profit and loss are exposed now. I'm not saying they don't serve a significant function, but they are deficient in themselves.
In 2010 when we were running deficits of €20-€30bn our interest rate went to 12% and we entered a bailout program. Today we are running a deficit of 6% of GDP and interest rates remain at 0% - (projected deficits of ) Germany 7%, France 11%, Italy 10%, Netherlands 11% should, in general economic theory mean that interest rates should be shooting up, instead they are 0%. The fiscal pact is dead - a useful instrument for an economic order that cannot envisage change. Change is the only constant and the limitations of the eurozone fiscal pact have been torn apart by a microscopic virus.
So how to avoid the poorest of the world getting screwed over is a tall order and history gives no reason for optimism.
However, I also think that we are truly living in an age of technological revolution and the world will be a radically different place in 10yrs than it is now, including, hopefully, an economic system that does not constantly jack-boot the lives of the poorest.