cruise ships could be sanitized and used for housing for low-risk people, with frequent checks, rules about congregating, parties, drinking etc. they could offset a lot of their losses and would have no fuel expenses. I see many many good things that will come out of this eventually...don't know how long it will take and there will of course be horrible stories. But we will move toward free energy for one thing, which means we can transport water, which means many colonies could be set up in low-water places. We will supplement agrofarming with many many more farm colonies, where people who do not do well under capitalism will grow food for themselves in former food deserts, and pass on surplus. There will be more people working at home, working fewer hours, moving out of big cities to dying communities... some of the crazy tax laws will have big enterprises paying a reasonable amount of taxes...people will stock more provisions for longer periods of time, easing up on future toilet paper rushes etc..which they will bypass anyway by buying portable bidets.
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