The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has changed all paradigms in the world, whether psychosocial, economic, health or public order and safety, among others. In the process, we have what everyone keeps saying is the “new norm.” When you say new norm, all rules are thrown out and regulatory policies are yet to be defined and we have the opportunity to redo things and have a resilient and buoyant economy to break out from the pandemic.

Under such a state, a sharing economy is shaping up more and more not because it is mandated by government, but because such innovation has been adopted and patronized by consumers themselves. Filipinos are so used to bartering that it has been with us in the early stages of our development as a nation, whether domestically or through trade routes of yesteryears.

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