With no attempt to revive the global economy, we need to look at longer cycles that affected society, and Scotland's Brochs are a good place to start, thousands of stone fortifications suddenly erected at the decline of the Iron Age. Mimics the 51% decline in USA GDP Q2, Hertz 25th largest bankruptcy in history and it seems escape paths are being blocked at every turn. Retirees buying escape RV's, sixth sense kicking in.
The sun has suddenly woken up...in the last couple of weeks there have been a couple dozen CME's... a couple of them quite large...worrisome because our magnetic shields are greatly diminished...
Imagine Bezel Bub, if we were to undergo a Carrington-level event today, with our weakened fields. Much would change. Many would die from the collapse of utilities and food supplies. Chat rooms would return to being a single room with lots of people chatting. Oh, but all wearing masks and social distancing LOL!!!
7 flares in the last 4 days, including one M class (second-strongest type), and one C9 (just below M class). [Link]
Those active regions are now facing Earth, which is simultaneously in syzygy with Venus.
Comment: See also: Brochs: Scotland's enigmatic Iron Age circular stone structures