If you look back at the Great Depression timeline, it started in 1929 and lasted thru 1939. Starting 10 years following the 1918-1919 pandemic.
However, and less historically notable, was the recession (or mini depression) of 1920-1921.
Regardless of what, how, or why, we are well far and away above the depression zone (so to speak). In my opinion.
So, again, from a historical perspective, and solely in my opinion, comparatively. Once this pandemic* “ends” we will already be within a depression. Rather than a mini-depression / short lived recession, as in 1920-1921. But a move of the follow on timeline back-to-back overlapping with the current plandemic*/Great Depression.
How long will it last?
Anyone’s guess. Truly.
Same guess as how long this current plandemic* will last.
No one knows. Again, truly.
If “everything” were to open back up today, as “if nothing happened”, we would still be in disastrous economic forecast zone. That wishful thinking is simply not occurring.
So, again, the depression will just linger on longer on the other side, once whatever “new normalcy” is truly reached.
What folks CAN do, at the individual/family level is prepare. Prepare for hard economic times, and the accompanying problems associated with said.
Folks whom are not recognizing the economic implications, well, not much to do about them. Normalcy bias I suppose.
*Whether one believes the current plandemic is true, or is false, makes no difference as to the economic ramifications of it.