One of the impacts of COVID-19 is that communities have looked for alternative means of survival as the market economy went into a major crisis and people lost their jobs. For many communities in the Pacific Islands, who have relied largely on the market economy over the years, this means falling back on their communal way of life which has provided resilience for centuries. The revival of various forms of communal capital such as kinship exchange, subsistence farming and strengthening of social solidarity have become features of this bourgeoning moral economy. In the post-COVID era, there needs to be a major rethinking of how community-based moral economies can be mainstreamed as assurance for resilience and as a responsive mechanism against future economic calamities.

COVID-19的影响之一是，随着市场经济陷入严重危机以及人们失业，社区一直在寻找其他生存方式。对于这些年以来主要依靠市场经济的太平洋岛屿上的许多社区而言，这意味着要放弃其提供数百年抗灾力的公共生活方式。繁荣的道德经济的特征是，各种形式的公共资本的复兴，例如亲属交换，自给自足的农业和加强社会团结。在后COVID时代，需要重新思考如何将基于社区的道德经济纳入主流，以此作为抵御能力的保证和应对未来经济灾难的响应机制。