Experienced prophets wait for events, Horace Walpole noted, not without subtle irony. How correct this wise advice is has been shown by the end of the year 2020 downright frighteningly. Because hardly anything has turned out as expected. The corona pandemic has left deep scars on society and overwhelmed almost everything. The consequences are dubious and cannot yet be assessed in full. The division in society has emerged more strongly than feared, not only, but above all in economic terms. The pandemic has produced many losers and few winners.

losers and … Among other things, the wide range of cultural activities is experiencing a financial nightmare that subsided slightly last summer and is now returning worse than before. Some people will probably only become fully aware of what this means when the mass togetherness becomes possible again carefree. The awakening is likely to go hand in hand with the realization that the pandemic has also claimed victims in this regard.

… Winner But there are not only losers: Online retailers such as Amazon are posting record sales at a level that probably even the most daring optimists for the year 2020 had not been planned. Pharmaceutical companies that are working promisingly on a vaccine are experiencing a soaring stock market. This is also experienced by people who have been doing hard work in hospitals and nursing homes for many years. What is still missing is that this fresh appreciation is finally noticeable in the wallet. Clapping on the balcony may be good for the soul, but it doesn’t pay a bill.

For many people it should be downright astonishing – and that too is part of the 898 he findings – what is possible when politics actually pose a problem takes seriously. The financial resources that have been uncovered by the state are remarkable and hardly anyone doubts that the bill will follow. The dispute over to whom it is given priority is likely to be one of the dominant issues in the Bundestag election campaign 2021. There, at least marginally, there will also be discussions about what a society can learn from the pandemic. Because such a deep cut also opens up the possibility of fundamentally re-sorting things after the crisis.

Out of fashion: commuting One aspect can already be foreseen: Working from home, often inevitable within the waves, will become more popular. There are two sides to the same coin. It creates more free time and reduces commuting – 2020 that was already measurable. The entrepreneur Eugene Kaspersky described a different side in the news magazine Der Spiegel : Corona gives cybercriminals a special boom who hack into computer systems of companies via poorly secured home workplaces.

automobile news 2020 (6 Pictures) Light motorcycles have experienced a short-term boom since the end of last year. Owners of a car driver’s license even without an additional driver’s license test 125 he with a maximum of 15 PS may drive. To do this, they need theoretical and practical training in Germany. According to KBA received in the first half of the year (to 26. June) 26. 898 Driver’s license for 125he. With such light motorcycles, the number of new registrations rose by around 67 percent to just under 30. 000, both 125 he scooters even by more than 90 Percent to around 26. 000. This fits into the epidemic year 2020 because on a bicycle one is pretty good infection-protected on the go. For the The automotive industry was 2020 a tough year, although it got a lot of attention with some auto peaks. There, subsidies were granted at a level that should make people think or at least do so. Sales fell sharply almost everywhere as a result of the pandemic, and yet a movement can no longer be denied: The sole combustion engines are on the retreat, everything that is at least partially electrified has a good chance. This is primarily due to the massive leverage with which the state is pushing tax money into this niche. As an optimist, however, I think there is another reason: It is dawning on most motorists that things will not go on with petrol and diesel alone – whether you like it or not.