People seem to be assuming that life will return to its previous "normal" once the Covid-19 pandemic has passed. How likely do you think this is to happen?
The reason for asking is that teleworking and teleconferencing will have been forced on organisations that previously rejected that option, and shopping habits may change.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.People seem to have short memories. A year or two from now this will be all but forgotten, replaced in the public eye by the next scandal, tragedy, or war... at least until the next pandemic occurs. Collectively, we are morons.
Charles1971
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Apr 16, 2020
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I hope that telecommuting will stay around now that companies have invested in it. Also we're probably looking at some demographic shifts and a huge increase in the retail apocalypse.
MarkiusMahamius
Level 7
Mar 20, 2020
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In a lot of shallow ways it may change. (I signed up for grocery deliveries for the first time ever, and may continue. ) The high street coffee shop boom may end , when people get out of the habit, for example. Things like that may change, but the deep meaningful important things, no.
Because every person who ever had a life threatening time in hospital, came out saying. "I am going to change completely, and live every day as if it was to be my last." But you don't; its too hard and old habits and ways of thinking are just too deeply grooved.
Fernapple
Level 9
Mar 20, 2020
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Look at what happened after The Spanish Influenza, 1918
AnneWimsey
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Mar 20, 2020
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Thanks for that tip. I will do so.
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