How much the COVID-19 will affect the global economy?

https://hbr.org/2020/03/understanding-the-economic-shock-of-coronavirus

COVID-19 or Coronavirus, which is started in the Wuhan area in China, has been spread from eastern Asia to Europe and Northern America. As the COVID-19’s spreading speed increased fast and widely, the WHO declared the situation of the COVID-19 as a global coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic happened before in the global history that brought numerous casualties all over the world. However, this time, the Coronavirus not only affect biologically to the people but also hit the economy market badly.

The world economy had crashed by the COVID-19, and it is currently continuing to be affected by the virus. Since the coronavirus pandemic is easily infected by coughing and touching others, the most recommending precaution is keeping distance between other people. Most countries’ governments suggest their people to stay at home instead of going to work or going outside. This survival prevention method is affecting various people’s life severely.

  • Small and Big Business Companies
  • Unemployment Rate
  • Long Recession Anxiety

Self-owned stores, which also include small businesses, are getting affected by reduced customers and contracts that involve human resources. The small businesses have less capital strength compared to the big companies, but even the big companies are suffering from the pandemic impacts. Since the pandemic is

The unemployment rate skyrocket with 17 million jobs lost in three weeks in the United States alone. One million jobs are also lost in Canada in the month of March, and Italy’s unemployment rate is expected to rise to 11.2%.

Unemployment Claims History Chart

Department of Labour unemployment insurance weekly claims report (April 9, 2020), Connie Hanzhang Jin and Alyson Hurt https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/09/830216099/6-6-million-more-file-for-unemployment-as-coronavirus-keeps-economy-shut

Recession seems to be last longer than expected, and no one knows how it will be in the future. The Dow Jones and S%P 500 has been crashed harshly. Not only the recession in the United States is a big problem, but also the global recession is the bigger problem as various, and numerous American companies have interconnections with globally. 76% of Americans fear the coronavirus COVID-19 will trigger and last the economic recession. The number of people’s anxiety will be higher combined globally. All the governments in the countries where the coronavirus COVID-19 affected are supporting financial help to their economy markets to prevent any collapse that will bring a more significant and critical problem to them.

Dow Jones Crashed Chart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_recession

 

Ref.

Zarroli, J., & Schneider, A. (2020, April 9). Jobs Carnage Mounts: 17 Million File For Unemployment In 3 Weeks. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/09/830216099/6-6-million-more-file-for-unemployment-as-coronavirus-keeps-economy-shut

Leonhardt, M. (2020, March 24). 76% of Americans worry coronavirus will trigger a recession-here are steps to take if you’re already being impacted. Retrieved from https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/americans-worry-coronavirus-will-trigger-an-economic-recession.html

Coronavirus recession. (2020, April 13). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_recession

How COVID-19 affects social media around us?

 

Coronavirus-19
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-07-20/index.html

COVID-19 is known as a Coronavirus from started in China and spread all over the world, and it announced as a pandemic by WHO, which made people experience self-quarantined situations in their own homes. As the virus getting over our daily life, it is also affecting the social media services that people are easy to approach.

Coronavirus social media
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2020/03/05/not-all-posts-are-misinformation-about-coronavirus-on-social-media/#32c74f817010

Like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other social services, they are bringing some bright and dark sides of itself about COVID-19.

Bright side

  • Voluntary social media webpages.
  • The Government and Public Health experts are joining medical involvement.

Dark side

  • Rumors and misinformation are getting worse and spreading quickly

On the bright side, some voluntary developers made COVID-19 critical information related webpages to bring it to the public. These webpages contain general knowledge of the virus, official announcements, top news, and even the pathway of the confirmed virus-infected patients. Not only voluntary developers but also official public health governmental webpages and medical experts sourced webpages are launched to deliver the appropriate and accurate information to the public. However, there are rumors and mislead information are keep spreading around the people as fake news. Those rumors are getting worse and interrupt the government’s supports. Social media is working well currently, but the users should actively distinguish the credible source and faked rumors in this chaotic period.

 

Ref.

Volkin, S. (2020, March 27). Social media fuels spread of COVID-19 information-and misinformation. Retrieved from https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/27/mark-dredze-social-media-misinformation/

How close AR/VR comes to our life?

https://www.shoppimon.com/2018/04/an-introduction-to-ar-and-vr-in-ecommerce/

AR and VR stand for augmented reality and virtual reality, which are new and aspiring technologies for various fields. However, its developing speed is too slow to feel the public use the AR and VR technologies.

There are several industries actively invest and develop the AR and VR.

  1. Gaming (59%)
  2. Education (33%)
  3. Training (27%)

The gaming industry keeps launching new games that are using VR through Play Station and Xbox console gaming devices. Virtual reality is a unique experience to the gamers, and it is attractive. Since the video game industry revenue is around $35.8 billion during 2018, putting investment into the gaming industry is a reasonable choice for the industry. It is easy to approach and enjoy the VR and AR contents. The education industry also uses the VR and AR for education purpose from the lower grade schools. Apple donated iPads to 50,000 students and 4,500 teachers back in 2016 with 114 schools in the U.S and keep their donations to increase and invest the usage of AR and VR content in the education fields. Along with the educational purpose, the VR and AR technologies are used in training purpose. For example, Walmart used Oculus Go, VR available headset, to train its staff members about their new technology, customer service, compliance, and even the skills for middle-management. According to Walmart, using the VR technology to the training sessions improved their staff members’ score 10 to 15%. Not only the VR and AR technologies are used in commercial industries, but also medical fields. A particular research project at Imperial College Healthcare Trust in London used Microsoft’s mixed-reality device to train the doctors about plastic surgery.

It is still an initial step of the VR and AR technology development progress, but applicable industries are broader than most of the general people expecting.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/infographic-vr-and-ar-are-gaining-traction-for-use-in-the-enterprise/

 

Ref.

Ranger, S. (2019, October 2). The strange future of AR and VR: Tentacles and time travel to digital doctors. Retrieved from https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-look-into-the-future-of-ar-and-vr-for-business-and-pleasure-from-tentacles-and-time-travellers-to-smart-soldiers-and-digital-doctors/

Rubin, P. (2019, August 5). Want to Know the Real Future of AR/VR? Ask Their Devs. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/story/future-ar-vr-survey/

Shieber, J. (2019, January 22). Video game revenue tops $43 billion in 2018, an 18% jump from 2017. Retrieved from https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/video-game-revenue-tops-43-billion-in-2018-an-18-jump-from-2017/

Zerega, B. (2019, December 4). Apple is donating iPads to 50,000 students and 4,500 teachers. Retrieved from https://venturebeat.com/2016/09/07/apple-is-donating-ipads-to-50000-students-and-4500-teachers/