A bunch of bastards will continue to artificially keep a deadly, mutilating virus alive because they don't like being told that they should exert the bare minimum of care and/or because other bastards who want their Führer back keep telling them that reliving their teenage rebellion is better than people losing their sense of taste and/or the ability to have an erection.
'@Baribal' Nobody has died from the "new variant" so far. Literally nobody in the world as far as we can tell. It's less dangerous than a cold. Less dangerous than bee stings. And peanuts.
That's how viruses work. The faster they spread the less dangerous they become. We all have thousands of different kinds of virus inside our bodies right now. But you only care about one.
I predict Denmark and Germany will be unified as a sinlge country. The name of the new country will be made up of the first part of Germanys name (Deutschland) and latter part of of Denmarks name (Danmark), thus it iwll be: Deutschmark. Likewise the name of the official currency will be made up of the first part of Denmarks current currency (Danske kroner) and the latter part of Germanys former currency (Deutschmark), thus it will be called: Danmark.
Not Serious Prediction:
Someone will point out that farts contain methane, and Shell Oil will begin a new porn industry as a result.
Serious Prediction:
We will get another variant of COVID that will spread even faster, but be slightly less deadly, than Omnicron. It will also evolve enough to where every vaccine will be ineffective. Nearly every human will get this variant, there will be no stopping it. However, it will become so omnipresent that it will be followed by another strain where it gets horizontal gene transfer from a more deadly virus. This next wave will cause a global drop of productivity and loss of life that will grind many third world nations to a halt, and slow many first world nations.
As workers continue to die, businesses will be strained beyond breakingpoint, we'll have mergers, buy outs, and going-out-of-businesses of some big names, especially ones notorious for not paying well, and we'll see some other names that we don't recognize take center field. This will result in one of the biggest changes in current markets: Amazon will start to show some serious chinks in its power. The first online worker-owned-general-purpose-co-op will come up (likely WinCo adding an online presence), and be a major contender against Amazon. As this business, being employee-owned, actually gets loyalty from its workers, unlike Amazon, it'll see a quick boost initially, then followed by users who prefer a very mild inconvenience in exchange for moral superiority. This will let them improve their service offerings, and begin to compete with Amazon on all levels. They will catch up with Amazon, and proceed to crush its marketshare. Similarly, every industry in the U.S. will see a surge in the return of Unions.
As corporate businesses start facing threats at every corner, business control over the U.S. will begin to waver. Extreme voting rights bills will pass. This will result in an economic revolution in the U.S. The U.S. will then (finally) join the other first world nations in measures such as universal health care, strong social safety nets, and might even become the first nation to institute a Universal Basic Income. This, in turn, will weaken business-strength-over-people further. These changes in the U.S. will drastically affect its external policies. A lot of the more oppressive military & economic actions will ease up, and the U.S. will begin to lure Russia, China, and the EU back to the discussion table. This will *terrify* Russia and China, because it will signal a return to U.S. leading economic policy. However, these policies will generally be positive from the perspective of the EU. Civil unrest in China and Russia will increase. China will respond by turning its attention to 'other-izing' the Muslims, and violence in the middle-east as China continues to expand its territory will increase. Rising escalations by China will raise concerns in Russia, EU, and US, and a new joint organization will be created in order to contain China's expansionist tendencies. This will culminate in the death of Dictator Winnie-the-Pooh, which will trigger a rush of influence-attempts between Russia, EU, and US as attempts to gain access to the country's resources shoot up. However, China will be in the midst of their own worker's revolution at this time (similar reasons of the US workers revolution that will happen earlier in the year). This will result in the French the influence war, as they are honestly the best country when it comes to social upheaval. At the end of the day, France will be standing as the world's penultimate super-power. Near the end of 2022, there will be talks about the U.S. and EU entering into some sort of alliance that will basically turn the EU/US into effectively one economic/social unit. Although neither side will admit this is what happened, and US and EU will remain distinctly named, you'll be seeing their names in conjunction much more frequently.
During this time, Britain will finally have exited the EU via Brexit. It will begin the process of re-entering the EU. However, it will be taking this opportunity away from the EU's rules to try and 're-ignite' the British Empire. However, the days of the empire are long past, and the mentality is archaic, and most of its targets would be better off focusing on EU/US relations. This will result in a small amount of sabre-rattling that results in Britain quietly backing down while its sphere of influence shrinks even further. Really, by the time we reach June, people will forget that Britain even exists, for the most part. Except, for, of course, to the British, who will continue to go on about how 'important' they are on BBC.
There will, however, be a big conflict that arises, and it will be very messy. While everybody VS China is escalating, one place will come into laser-sharp focus: Hong Kong
Due to China, France, Britain, and U.S. all being nuclear powers, this will not be a direct war, and it will never be a direct war. Direct war is off the table. However, the amount of sabre rattling will have the entire world on edge as Hong Kong becomes vitally symbolically important, and an establishing point of perceived world dominance. As such, this is where France will begin its rise to world's top super-power status. Expect impressive things from Hong Kong rebels trained by the French. This rebellion will spark the end of Dictator Winnie-the-pooh, and the People's Republic of China shift from communism to an *actual* republic. In fact, it will be the world's first direct democracy. This revolution will cause China's fall in 2023, and subsequent rise in 2025.
All this happening will cause the first collapse of a nation (without a a subsequent replacement) that happens purely as a result of climate change to go underneath everyone's radar. Heck, they won't even update the maps. They'll just say the region is "in turmoil" and leave it at that. It will be the first time since the Agricultural Revolution that humanity as a whole has lost territory. It will be merely a blip in international news.
'@LilithRose' Your last prediction is the only one I believe in. But what's interesting is the question of where one draws the line at "lost territory" I believe that even when every inch of the "nation" is drier than the Sahara there will be tiny bunker-like settlements of a few dozen people living off of shipped-in charity. They will be propped up entirely by a healthier nation that wants the power afforded by a puppet-state, even if it is a state in name only.
Syria already fell into civil war because of climate change, not that most will admit it. And it only stands because of the backing of foreign nations.
Update half a year later: Huh, switch out China & Hong Kong for Russia & Ukraine, and I got that pretty spot on. Though, to be fair, Putin forced the global attention to that combo instead of the Hong Kong/China combo.
If you ignore mainstream media bulls*it about covid, russia and likes it was good year, 2021... But of course good news and articles doesn't generate as much clickbait as terrifying (clearly most people are masochists, they want to be hurt physically or emotionally) ones... 2021 was a good year, and I believe 2022 will be even better (or at least more interesting).
You might think I am insane, idiot or ignorant, think so, but I am truly happy and enjoying my life... So call me whatever, remain sad and depressed while I enjoy my life...
@celticnoir Try to search boarder wars, skirmishes, displacment, massacres, rapes, tortures and things like that around asia, south america, africa and in parts of "industrialist or modern world" .
Yeah.. Mass shootings happens in US almost every hour but no one cares, yeah rape happens in china because subodinate women don't drink enough (well they are raped because too drunk too refuse)... Multiple Asia countries are just pointing in what could be only described as cold war... Yeah... I am ignorant one....
Ohh just as point. Everyone forgetting myanmar, rape, torture and execution is everyday ocurrance, but you would like to bleat how is it undemocratic to rise food price? HAH...
EDIT: So yeah summary of ALL OF PREVIOUS YEARS: shit happens in europe and it is big thing, shit happens everywhere else (Aside US and few others) no one cares,,, Too much shit in EU? Amragedon by liberals and crazies...
@MiskisM Going by your flag I assume you just hear more about bad thing's in Europe because that's where you also live, I assume most news in East Asia don't really care or report much about the latest European problems.
Anyway I agree that for me the 2021 was an overall positive year, despite the very minor inconveniences of covid measures.
Oh yes the worst pandemic since the 1918 flu is something dreamt up by liberals and crazies. And all those things you brought up were things YOU cavalierly dismissed when you said 2020, 2021 were great and 2022 would be even better. Hypocrite much? AND covid is adding to the misery of all those other countries you mentioned, which again you totally dismissed. Go back to your Quanon communites.
@celticnoir Well I will "go back to Quanon" when you go back to suc*ing liberal crazies dic*s and pleasing them in any other way they want...
See, insults work both way. And I am not even sure what Quanon is but I suspect as it was meant as insult sort of, it is far right community?
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