Honestly, spring just happens to be the season when I contribute to my Roth IRA, so hey, I guess this year I get my index funds at a low per-share price. Thanks log-normal random walk!
Before you get too excited about Spring essentially solving this problem, I present to you the history of the Spanish Flu [1].
> Reported cases of Spanish flu dropped off over the summer of 1918, and there was hope at the beginning of August that the virus had run its course. In retrospect, it was only the calm before the storm. Somewhere in Europe, a mutated strain of the Spanish flu virus had emerged that had the power to kill a perfectly healthy young man or woman within 24 hours of showing the first signs of infection.
True, before it all fell apart. This sort of thing isn't unprecedented either [1]:
> In this downturn, however, the ground for the next economic explosion after 1500 was being laid. Wages rose and huge swathes of society had more money to spend on consumer goods, from beer to clothing to furniture. With fewer people to feed, the largely agricultural economy could focus more on livestock or specialty cash crops like hops or sugarcane instead of grain. Diets improved and, plague aside, so did health. More and more people were drawn into the market economy and trade networks grew wider and deeper.
I wasn't expecting Spring to "solve the problem". I was expecting an ongoing economic disaster to make this year's retirement account contribution a "buy low", which I may someday benefit from if we all come through this.
