| Reduction in oil production (up to 30%); improved environment, cutting 8% p.a. the demand for energy (i.e. 1.93 million less barrels of oil34 (June 2020) | It valued-up (in S&P 500) technology companies: Microsoft35 19%; Apple 18%; also, Amazon ~14%; Google ~13%; Facebook (~7%) (=~71%); plus, an investment company; Visa; JPMorgan; Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, Salesforce (Cloud); Amgen (biotechnological industry) & Honeywell (manufacturer) | Increased: the sales of PCs; means of tele-conferences; skypes; videos; e-mails; postal services & couriers; & take away services | Increased: electronic purchases via internet plus credit cards (+60%); food deliveries via internet; Mask production; admissions in private hospitals; needs for specific medical management |
| Intensified: phone banking (*); Internet banking (**) & mobile banking (***); (*) ?6b spent in first 6 months (2020) in Greece (+13.4% since 2019) & ?b by tourists (-63%), by credit cards; helped by the system of no-pin & an increased ?0 limit | Cargo air transport increased 30% | Increased demand for burial grounds & funeral services… | Increased: the number & the activity of: barbers; hair dressers; nail caring; the demand of personal hygiene products; beauty products ~+14%; mini markets sales; home cleaning products (+21.2%) (Greece); sales of bicycles, electric cars36, and other electric transport means |
| Rapid resort of Greek state to digitalization (since March 2020) | Wake-up of global millionaires (Soros, Gates, Buffet) proposing to pay increased taxes (IMF) (18/10/2020)! EU suspended austerity programs | Reduced pollution; increased investments in renewable sources of energy37; closure of lignite production by 2023 (Greece); reduction in electricity cost; Electricity in Greece costs ?1/MHh (wholesale price), more than double that of Germany (?3) (June 2020)! Greece delayed to follow the “target model38” of EU. Nuclear power was out of question due to country’s…earthquake sensitivity… | Increased use of Cloud39; construction of data centers (Greece); Amazon established a web services center; increased digital immigrants; + optical fibers (11/10/2020); thousands of rapid etc. tests for COVID-19; intensity in producing batteries (European battery alliance) |
| It pushed societies (Greece) towards more computerization, & digitalization! In 3 years, Greek citizens will make all their contacts with the State via internet… | (*) Banking transactions (90%) made through electronic networks: “ATMs”, APS—“Automatic Payments System”, “internet” & “mobile” in 2020 (1st sem.; Greece); the number of bank-branches in Greece reduced by 2263 between 2010 and 2019 from 4097, not due only to COVID-19! | | |