Originally published: Forethought, 28 May 2020
Week 9
This week the Normality Index provides a story of steady improvement in the drivers of our normality. Week 9 saw the Normality Index at 59% up from 52% last week. Our most important driver of normality, confidence in the economy, remains low but is up by 13% from last week. And Australians are increasingly feeling comfortable socialising and moving about in public which are both up by 20% this week to 64% and 60%, both important drivers of our sense of normality.
With JobKeeper due to cease at the end of October, are Australians looking far enough into the future with regard to their financial wellbeing? We are also cautiously watching Australians’ social behaviours and wondering if we can maintain our sense of joint civic responsibility to social distance so that we can keep the lid on the infection rates. If we conflate the Forethought Normality Index data, with Forethought’s anthropological observations and the known knowns regarding the economic support packages and social movements, we are left with the question….are we in the eye of the storm?
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