Here’s a tl;dr future, US: the current state of exception is masking the depth and extent of the economic collapse in the US. When Trump etc try to “open” it, their failure will perversely serve to reveal its extent and spark even more serious declines. The summer will bring an ever-deeper sense of cognitive dissonance, as Americans see a depression that’s in color, instead of black-and-white, and is streaming in 8K: the beginnings of widespread hunger and privation taking huge bites out of the heavily leveraged middle classes. That is, except to the growing numbers of people whose phones and internet gets cut off for lack of payment. Hunger, boredom, frustration, impatience, and incomprehension — HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN TO US — will make for a seriously hot summer. Trump’s increasingly frantic and erratic behavior will intensify the belief that the US is “ungovernable” (keep an eye out for that word), and he’ll respond more and more autocratically, with the same imbecilic vocabulary: punishing states and even regions he sees as insubordinate, declaring unprecedented powers, threatening allies, etc. The right-wing peanut gallery will begin to argue that, given the ongoing emergency, holding an election is madness. And, come mid/late summer, it’ll gradually dawn on the consensus that the government should have been planning for (cue the GoT refs) Winter. The election will come, Trump will lose but claim he won, and as the lawsuits set in more and more people will starve and — literally — freeze.
And I didn’t even mention C-19, which will continue to slosh around the country. Rural areas will be ravaged, regional blocks of states will erect borders, and the US will be cut off from countries that were more prudent and systematic.
That should be enough for now.