What things will permanently disappear as a result of CVID -19

I'd add movie theaters to that list. Even before the viral outbreak, streaming was becoming more and more popular. As the older generations die off and the population has more people who grew up on streaming media, the movie theater will be, how shall I put it, Gone With the Wind.

The only thing from that list I think will actually disappear are buffet style restaurants and sex clubs.

Concerts and nightclubs will continue after the crisis. Mega church services and ceremonies will definitely continue. The validation and socialization that people get from those services are a thing to behold. It’s bizarre.

None of those things will disappear permanently. In fact, they'll be the first things to reopen when the crisis ends.

Cheetos. No one's gonna want 'foods' that entice one to lick his fingers.

I don't want movie theaters to disappear. I still enjoy going out for dinner and a movie.

Red Lobster and Golden Corral Buffet

Bathhouses will be filled with horny fuckers.

I for one hope that the phony "shaking hands" at church ceases. It drives me nuts on the rare occasion that I go to church and have to participate in this germ spreading exercise.

R6 I agree. There are times it's fun to see a movie with an audience.

Life will go back to exactly where it was before the outbreak. Americans will deprive themselves of nothing.

I think chinese restaurants will take a hurting for some time.

Maybe they will tell motherland to stop hunting rats, and opossums, and boilings dogs alive. Seeing the chinese pics of whole dogs, grilled and cooked like how we roast a pig brought tears to my eyes. It also made me realize that we shouldn't eat pigs, and cows, and probably even chickens. Pigs and cows have the same intelligence as dogs and cats, or at least similar. I'm a try my pescatarian diet once again.

Sewing bees

I didn’t realize bathhouses still existed.

The O from Covid?

My stock market portfolio

Hopefully the whole of the current leadership of the PRC communist party will disappear.

[quote] Cheetos. No one's gonna want 'foods' that entice one to lick his fingers.

Fuck you! Fuck you with a chicken leg with my secret recipe!

[quote] Cheetos. No one's gonna want 'foods' that entice one to lick his fingers.

I eat mine with two spoons.

None of those things will change in response to COVID-19, though I think it certainly won't help the long and accelerating descent of cinemas (per R1's suggestion.)

Buffet style restaurants maybe ought to change, but they are popular with cheap fuckers and in Trump land (major Venn diagram stuff, except for the odd contrast of the very few posh sorts of buffets at five-star hotels, but these are fussed over with many attendants with some hygiene standards.)

I hope the hot food bar at Whole Foods Market, and salad bars and soup bars everywhere come back.

Not sure about bathhouses: I'm 60 and frequent some -- long ago and in recent years.

Will steamrooms and saunas and hot tubs at gyms be banned? Personal trainers, as they can get too close to clients during instruction.

How will Las Vegas and AC survive without buffets...seriously?

Will airlines stop food, snack and drinking service?

Will dentistry and optometry visits be different?

Which doctor would ever bother with rectal exams anymore?

Democracy in Hungary

[quote] Which doctor would ever bother with rectal exams anymore?

Why would this be any different? You do know they’re supposed to “glove up,” right? The guy downtown you see isn’t a legitimate doctor.

Old people.

Circle jerks.

Circle jerks are now online R25.

Group Exercise like Soul Cycle, Yoga, Pilates

Many clubs are holding "virtual" pilates & yoga, so those will come back and may even continue to include virtual classes; I think cycle & exercise classes will have new rules to keep them from packing the place, but they'll come back

I do think salad bars & open food bars in general will go away or be severely limited.

human life on earth

They would come back if we had a president that didn't just blow off the CVID-19 and people were properly educated on how serious this could be.

Mega cruiseships.

They will all come back.

For me personally I think I am going to stop wearing contact lenses. I’ve been wearing glasses at home for three weeks and my eyes feel great. I’m usually rubbing my eyes all day long. Plus eyeglasses give a layer of protection.

So if cruises and mega cruise ships go away, what's going to happen to them? (I mean the ships themselves.)

You’ll take my Old Country Buffet away over my dead body!!!!

For a time, I wonder if there will be backlash to the Instagram influencer bullshit as there will likely be a recession for some period of time & there will be no patience (or funding) for Instagrams luxury hotels & restaurants

Spin the bottle.

All that stuff will take a hit, but by next year some time most people will have had the virus and recovered or been vaccinated. I don't think any of these businesses will stay dead forever when there's money to be made.

Anti-government protests like the yellow vests in France, the anti-vaxxers in Italy and the anti-China protesters in Hong Kong. Tyrants can finally rule the world thanks to this virus without being bothered by annoying human rights activists.

R37, if you read any of the DL flu shot threads this winter do you really think most people will voluntarily get vaccinated against COVID?

Saying "they will come back" is inane. Given enough time EVERYTHING can comeback.

Life as we know it.

This is a ridiculous thought. None of those things will go away for good and I actually think that close human contact will come back with a vengeance when this shit is over. I can't wait to fuck indiscriminately again.

Nacreous layers of permacum. I’m like a sourdough starter... without moisture and replenishment, I’m cracking up here. By the time this club opens again they’ll sweep me away like the dead skin off your heel.

Bernie Sanders

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - all parade's for that matter Times Square New Year's Eve Broadway Shows Joe Biden

Air travel.

Nothing goes forever. Once there’s a viable treatment and/or vaccine, neither of which are unlikely outcomes, life will return to what it was before.

And I know, I know... nobody’s ever invented a vaccine for a lot of things, but there are now vaccines for flu, yellow fever, HPV, smallpox, hepatitis, rubella, mumps, rabies, and chicken pox. There are anti-virals for HIV and herpes.

Never underestimate the determination and will of the pharma industry when there are billions to be made. This is truly a global market waiting and ready. It’s the Viagra of primitive death scourges.

The problem is that there will be a huge knee-jerk reaction to all of this and once things are gone - like parades - they are unlikely to come back. They will be viewed as quaint vestiges of the past.

None of that will go away.

Just as the demand for meat and animal agriculture, the main contributor to coronaviruses, won't go away. The only reason US chicken farms, cattle ranches, etc. don't break out with viruses is because they're pumped full of antibiotics, which then get digested by humans and contributes to our drug immunity.

But it won't go away because people are addicted to animal meat. Just like we're addicted to the comforts of dining out, drinking in bars, trying to find mates at night clubs, etc.

I hope hand shaking becomes extinct in all forms. Why do I need to shake the car salesman's hand?

[r32] I can't wait to get back to wearing contact lenses. I hate wearing glasses. Until this is over, I'm keeping my fingers out of my eyes, but I'll be the first to pop the contacts in once the all clear is given.

R7 Red Lobster has a buffet?

Movie theaters will come back, but there will be far fewer of them than before the virus.

Buffets will take some time, but they will come back. They always do. Most of the other things on the list will also come back at some point.

Department stores -- they were struggling before this. I expect the few that are left will not reopen.

After the devastation of the Spanish flu we went right into the roaring 20s.

This too shall pass.

A welcome side effect of this whole thing would be that in the future Cashiers and Sales Associates will not be required to make chit chat and ask questions as they will be too busy disinfecting areas in between customers and just won't have time.

R55 = Olivia de Havilland

No I need my Indian lunch boofay really bad.

[quote]No I need my Indian lunch boofay really bad.

Now, Chrissy-- you know you were banned well before this crisis hit.

Small business. After this crisis is over, the government will give enough peanuts to the peasants to keep them from starving and revolting, then we’ll feed Corporate Wall Street like a fat ass show pig, then we’ll take Main Street Mom & Pop bend them over a table and jam a rusty fence post up their ass. Corporations and Billionaire Cocksucker like Jeff Bezos will enslave us all, this is the future.

I think most things will come back as soon as there's a vaccine and the virus goes the way of the swine flu.

R39, yes I expect those with half a living brain cell will get vaccinated.

3/4 of Chrissy Metz -- she'll surprise everyone and play Audrey Hepburn and win an Oscar for it.

R63 FTW!!!

The only thing that might go away permanently is cruise ships, otherwise, I don't think anything in that list will go away permanently. I hope to fuck megachurches go away permanently but some idiots seem to love them.

I have fantasies about Trump dying. I hope Trump disappears. That’s all I care about rest will fall in place

I believe his presidency will disappear. I really do. Could be a landslide. When things stabilize, even if they are still drifting towards normalized, we’ll move from fear (terror, really) to blame and anger. And there is plenty of blame and anger that will justly be directed at the failure of the administration and then the ballot box. It won’t be a repudiation of that jerk, but it will be a backlash, even so. Few will want him in charge again, whatever woe befalls us next.

The hot bar at Whole Foods is never coming back.

Thanks a lot, r12 - you fat CUNT!

Movie theaters are dead. The biggest chains are dying right now. Their death knell has been long coming, and the industry hates them anyway. They’d rather go direct to the consumer and get all the money. There will be a couple of specialty palaces, other than that byeeee.

Shaking hands is definitely over.

People on this thread are seriously delusional about the shake out that is currently happening economically. Things are going to be completely changed in ways you can’t even imagine.

I agree with the person who said they miss the salad bar and hot food bar at Whole Food. My WF has the tastiest MEATLESS meatballs.

Lol, the Spanish flu set society back economically, scientifically, artistically, and socially nearly fifty years, but keep dreaming R55.

Let's talk about all the big chains that will disappear- Kmart/Sears( they've been hurting for years anyway),Macy's, car dealerships and perhaps some of the CAR companies.

With everyone realizing how it's possible to work at home, the commercial real estate market is going to tank big time. Hopefully a lot of buildings can be converted to residential.

Business travel is going to be drastically reduced as well. Most companies have realized now that most business and meetings can be conducted remotely and a lot of money can be saved on travel expenses.

Hateful old white men.

I agree commercial real estate is in BIG trouble R75. My husband has a small business with about ten employees in an office in NY and he’s decided to cut his rent by almost 2/3, which will save him 60k a year by moving the office near where we live. Half the employees will work from home, and he plans on only going into his new office maybe half the week along with two or three others, and that’s only because they like the structure. I expect NY commercial real estate to be hit hard.

Rentmen.eu

R73 Bullshit. Society recovered quicky, economic effects were short term.

OP: "All adult businesses including Adult Bookstores, Bathhouses, Sex clubs etc."

What is this, 1992?

As devastating as the Spanish Flu was it was quickly, and somewhat weirdly, forgotten. People moved on once it was over. I read that there was one novel set during the pandemic, and that was the only significant work to come out of that period dealing with the flu.

Liza.

Walmart and other Made in China shit

Bat Soup

Open border, free movement of people internationally. These were the biggest factors in the rapid international spread of this virus. Without them this would have been confined to Hubei and surrounding provinces, maybe China overall. We wont be able to travel anything like as widely as we did, the third world and much of Asia will be off limits unless you go into quarantine on your return or at least are subject to intense medical scrutiny, and anywhere else will require tests and precautions.

I think most of the things in OP's list will recover, possibly bar movie theatres

Buffets and cruise ships will slowly come back, but will be hugely changed and less common than they once were

Ditto adult businesses, they meet a core human need that isnt going away, but the way they do business will change, how I dont know, we will see

Buffets can be "manned" by a restaurant employee. They can serve you a scoop of whatever (like Panda Express).

My favorite buffet (now closed, RIP) was manned. It was kind of upscale (for a buffet). I suspect the reason it was manned was to prevent waste & over-consumption.

For the offices that survive, kiss the hot desk concept good bye. Well, perhaps not kiss..

The cruise ship industry is huge. Will it survive?

They will need to reinvent themselves after this shitstorm

IMO, people will still want to go on cruises. The market will still be there.

All this stuff will come back, but I think a lot of people will become more aware of the grossness of doorknobs, shaking hands, touching your face, etc.

I used to touch my face all the frickin time. Now when it itches I just "observe" the feeling and it goes away.

I am also going to hoard canned food and cleaning products.

Toilet paper is never coming back.

Cruises will be cheap for a long time. Air fares too, I’d guess. They’ll need to normalize the habit again. I guess everything along those lines... hotels, restaurants... they need bums in seats and will have to cut prices to get them, initially. And then the twenties will probably roar....

"... go to church and have to participate in this germ spreading exercise. "

The historical fact of Christain (intentionally misspelled) religions infesting native tribes and killing them off , and instigating some of the world's worst wars and bigoted hatred being a mere afterthought to you getting the sniffles.

I've been on cruises where they've had a norovirus outbreak and they do the manned buffet in that situation. Also, no salt and pepper shakers (just paper packets) or anything else that can be shared by another person.

Everything will come back and with a vengeance, you give people too much credit, people want things and they will get them. You bitches will be the very ones back at the hot bar at Whole Foods when it opens back up.

Don't know about that r96. This virus is going to be coming in waves and no one knows exactly when, but they estimate the second wave will be in the fall. That doesn't exactly incite a lot of trust and confidence in public pursuits/activities, I'd think.

My ability to look at Trump's makeup-clogged face or listen to his fart voice ever again.

Lol R80. Directly led to massive economic depression which set up the crash, WW2, etc.

The Spanish Flu was not “quickly forgotten.” It happened during the devastation of WW1. It killed north of 50 million people and possibly up to 100 million. You people don’t know shit about history. My god. No wonder we’re living through all this again.

Frozen yogurt shops and their self serve machine handles everyone touches and their toppings sitting out in the open.

My muscles. I exercise for an hour every day and lately I’ve been eating candy for 2 hours a day.

I’ll have to contact Dr. Now soon.

OP You must be joking.

Little will change. The sheeple will forget about it and go back to how they behaved before

Cruise ships came back after the Titanic.

I'm hoping self-checkout will disappear. No one needs all those touch screens.

Trump's Muslim ban won't disappear. Independents (& some dems) will approve

of folks being kept out when they see Iran & other Middle East nations covid cases exploding.

R97 Trump's wall be get higher approval ratings if illegals keep coming in the fall with no cure in sight.

Most Americans won't stay in now for their own friends & family's sake. They won't tolerate new cases coming from illegals who will overload more hospitals.

[quote]Lol, the Spanish flu set society back economically, scientifically, artistically, and socially nearly fifty years, but keep dreaming [R55].

Horseshit.

R88 I fuckin hope so! Hot seating is bad for spreading electronic viruses as well as the real thing.

[quote] All buffet-style restaurants

Nooo! That's what i'm missing the most and I will be the first in line once they reopen!

Free hand sanitizer. In the future, you'll have to swipe a credit card or iPhone for a squirt.

Sex. Only virtual sex or sex with robots will be permitted because human sex is dirty. Lesbian gatherings. Lesbians are notorious for spreading viruses. Vagina capes. Full of bacteria. Fried chicken. Too much finger licking required.

Sniffing underwear.

mega church ceremonies.? are you completely nuts? IF anything it will explode in growth. Even a world wide nuclear event coudlnt keep people away. Religion is the opiate of the people.

For the idiot at R100:

"The 1920s ....(....)`....frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age", while in Europe the period is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age Twenties" because of the economic boom following World War I. French speakers refer to the period as the "Années folles" ("Crazy Years"), emphasizing the era's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism."

"The economic prosperity experienced by many countries during the 1920s (especially the United States) was similar in nature to that experienced in the 1950s and 1990s. Each period of prosperity was the result of a paradigm shift in global affairs."

" These shifts in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1990s, occurred in part as the result of the conclusion of World War I and Spanish flu, World War II, and the Cold War, respectively."

[quote] You bitches will be the very ones back at the hot bar at Whole Foods when it opens back up.

I never was a germophobe, but the Whole Foods hot bar was always suspicious to me.

[QUOTE]Small business.

On the contrary, I think small businesses will become stronger than ever thanks to the explosion of the "Buy Local" trend.

I think movie theaters will finally die now that people have psychologically gotten used to viewing new releases in the comfort of their own home on the flat screen tvs with the kids and pup. Thats why so many over produced blockbusters and superhero movies were being made because that was only way to convince people to shell out $20 bucks to sit in a crowded theater. Though many theaters have gotten really comfortable over the past several years. It will still be a date night sort of thing but I think only few locations will exist, and theyll function like some sort of attraction like CineBistro.

r117, Hmm...that's an interesting perspective.

Nah, hand sanitizer will be everywhere. Like at hospitals.

I hope the hugging thing goes away. Remember when when we would only hug people we knew well/liked/loved? Then sometime in the last 20 years, people were hugging you bye even though you first met an hour ago for a work meeting.

r100

Sorry but it was pretty much forgotten very quickly. While WWI was being discussed all this was happening. Small wars continued all over the world till the mid 1920, as a follow up to WWI.

Then the Great Depression hit. I remember when I was at my father's funeral in 1976, I looked around at all the graves and asked my mother, "Did all these people die in WWI?" They all had death years of 1918, she said, "Some but most were the flu."

r104 The Titanic was not a cruise ship. The concept of cruise ships didn't exist back then. Ocean liners were transportation to get you from Point A to Point B - not for sightseeing.

"It killed north of 50 million people and possibly up to 100 million. You people don’t know shit about history. My god. " - R100

North? The correct words are more than. My god.

North? Did none die in the south?

You don’t know shit about English. You must be Southern home-schooled.

Unnecessary revivals and crappy musicals on Broadway.

R123, "North of" meaning "more than" is common slang.

[quote]IMO, people will still want to go on cruises. The market will still be there.

Yeah, there are tons of people who on cruises yearly or almost yearly.

[quote]IMO, people will still want to go on cruises. The market will still be there.

Yeah, there are tons of people who on cruises yearly or almost yearly.

There's always the grand pronouncements, like there would be no more art after Auschwitz or irony after 9/11.

But life will go on as before, as it always does, as it must.

Precisely, R121; common.

If buffets never come back then I will quit eating out for the rest of my life.

It took the Bubonic Plague 300 years to play itself out in Europe. 300 Years.

R131 Bubonic was a bacteria and pre-Antibiotics, this is a virus with modern medicine... we’ve got 50/50.

Uber/Lyft may suffer too. People are going to be wary about riding in close quarters with strangers (driver AND passenger].

Trump rallies.

R9, I never participate. I just look straight ahead and ignore all attempts to touch me . . . unless he's hot.

Hopefully Trumptards…all of them.

R9 I think that is just Catholics.

Reason, sense, proportion, perspective

Granny porn

I don't see why parades or concerts would go away, but large sporting events in stadiums wouldn't? What about amusement parks and theme parks (Disneyland/World, etc.)? Those places are germ central, but I doubt they're going anywhere. People aren't going to permanently give up pleasurable group or communal entertainment activities because of this, at least not in the long term.

I could care less about movie theaters going under to be honest. Nothing playing at them is of interest to me at all - it's just a glut of superhero movies, shit for little kids, Disney & Pixar crap, and family friendly fare.

Bubos.

162 posts and no one mentioned what's really going to go away.

YOUR FREEDOMS.

As a citizen of the US or anywhere else.

Dumbshits as presidents. One can hope.

Of course the NYT hypocritically ignored US state governments who utilised panic and hysteria to mandate "shelter in place" and "social distancing", thus eroding and revoking the Constitutional rights of US citizens.

200,000 Americans

China

[quote]Many clubs are holding "virtual" pilates & yoga, so those will come back and may even continue to include virtual classes.

I can't imagine the virtual classes would be popular. They rob the participants of toting around their yoga mats around and being cunts with their coffee shop orders: "I'll have a venti matcha green tea Frappuccino made with soy milk, chips, and peppermint..."

[quote]It took the Bubonic Plague 300 years to play itself out in Europe. 300 Years.

Yeah, well they didn’t have running water back then, so...

Underpaid, nonunionised grocery store workers, personal shoppers, and delivery men.

I would like to see Amazon workers unionized and paid well, but I guess that's a pipe dream.

Things that will disappear - Sears, JC Penny, Kmart, and many other chains.

R21, Funny you should have ask your last question. I'm scheduled for a mid-May colonoscopy, and so far it's still on.

[QUOTE] can't wait to get back to wearing contact lenses. I hate wearing glasses. Until this is over, I'm keeping my fingers out of my eyes, but I'll be the first to pop the contacts in once the all clear is

Spaz. Wash your hands before putting them in and taking them out! You sound crazy.

Studio produced porn.

Nothing...it will all come around again.

[quote]if you read any of the DL flu shot threads this winter do you really think most people will voluntarily get vaccinated against COVID?

I'm one of the people who didn't get a flu shot, because I'd had a mild allergic reaction one year. Then I got flu. Trust me, I'm getting any flu vaccine anyone can give me from now on.

There are always going to be the crazies who think it's a hoax or a conspiracy but vaccines won't ever go away.

[quote]There's always the grand pronouncements, like there would be no more art after Auschwitz or irony after 9/11. But life will go on as before, as it always does, as it must.

Indeed. Irony isn't dead; r123 is proof of that.

Hillary Clinton. Hoping.

Sadly, I highly doubt mega churches will go under. They're too consumed with $$$.

The NIMBY movement will be stronger than ever,

The right to bear hand sanitizer will replace the right to bear arms. And a new writ of scrubeas corpus will be available against people who don't practice basic hygiene.

[quote]Uber/Lyft may suffer too. People are going to be wary about riding in close quarters with strangers (driver AND passenger].

I could maybe see riding sharing services will end up requiring that drivers keep cleaning wipes, disinfectant sprays, and hand sanitizers in their cars during shifts. To ensure that the drivers are meeting that requirement they could implement some policy in which the drivers would have to send a pic of the supplies to them and that would then allow them approval to start their shifts.

If Uber or Lyft was to take those measures and advertise it to customers, it could work in retaining customers. However, those kinds of requirements could cause drama for drivers because they may not want to pay out of pocket for cleaning supplies and disinfectants.

AirBnB

Our logic and common sense.

Donald Trump.

We can't foresee. The Black Death ended the Feudal Era in Europe.

r44 That would require the disappearance of dumb shits as voters. This nation is abundant with those.

r94, if your intent of misspelling 'Christian' was to highlight how they are unlike Christ, you should have misspelled the 'Christ' part, not the 'ian' part. 'ian' just means 'one who follows'.

Well, KKKristian is a bit over the top.

R165 That wasn't kind of overnight and took some input from the locals in terms of 'The Peasants' Revolt'. The leaders of the revolt (which they lost) were also slaughtered.

The Country had become ungovernable and eventually concessions were made to the poor.

Mega Church ceremonies, much like their ancestors the cockroaches, will be around forever.

R170 They won't, the US is just catching up with the rest of the World on this. In 50 years Religion will be a minority interest as it is in Northern Europe now.

Hopefully, we will stop depending on China to make our drugs and medical equipment. Also, they shouldn't be able to own American food companies like Smithfield. Even if it means we pay more. America has to start taking care of itself.

JC Penneys

Sears

Kmart

The world might become germaphobic.

The "share economy " will go down the toilet because no one will want to share anything in order to not get other people's cooties.

This could be good news for car manufacturers.

R157. Hoping.

R171 you think religion is a minority interest in Europe?

The "Karen" hairdo

anti vaxxers

R169, I don't remember claiming anything about "overnight." The topic was about changes, period.

Moreover, our pestilence might not disappear anytime soon.

P.S. I wrote a Graduate paper on the Black Death, and Wat Tyler was part of the curriculum I eventually taught.

R178 Hope you're right. If so, good f'ing riddance of the anti-vaxxers.

[QUOTE] North? The correct words are more than. My god. North? Did none die in the south? You don’t know shit about English. You must be Southern home-schooled.

YOU don’t know shit about English. “North of” is a common expression meaning “more than” and completely acceptable.

Are you retarded?

R176 It is in the UK, and Northern Europe, church attendance (inc funerals,weddings and christenings) hovers around the 10% mark and falling.

The regular church attendees also tend to be older, within 20 years it'll be under 5%.

Fountains of Wayne.

R176: it's approaching minority status in the United States, at least for Christians...

People abandoned their faith during times of prosperity. If we’re in for another Great Depression, I see people all of a sudden flocking back to Christ.

The last twenty years includes the recession after 9/11 and the Great Recession of 2008 that for some people is still going on (and sadly for them is about to get worse.)

And those numbers were falling all through these "times of prosperity."

The people have taken to other opiates.

Christianity in Europe has declined throughout Boom & Bust for the past 70 years.

Even traditionally Catholic Countries (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal) have seen church attendance drop by over 60% and more.

"Religion" is an intrinsic part of European culture and psyche. Communal observance has nothing to do with how deeply embeded Xtian expression and identity is in both Western and Eastern Europe.

[quote]Even traditionally Catholic Countries (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal) have seen church attendance drop by over 60% and more.

They all still identify as Christian.

Religion and belief in Jesus will be here long after you will.

Viruses will be, too R190, and like religion, new versions pop up every year.

R190 I Don't doubt it, we still have Druids ans Wiccans also. Each to their own.

R191 obviously

R192 just because you don't believe in Jesus doesn't mean you're correct

R188 you're so dumb

R194 I don't care if I'm right or wrong. Religion isn't part of daily life here in the UK and has no influence in politics.

R196 this thread isn't about religion in politics, Druids or Wiccans

Jobs. Lots of jobs.

Massachusetts had 2.9% unemployment at the beginning of the year. In the last two weeks, about 9% of the working population has applied for unemployment.

And that's just the start of the layoffs. Lots of those jobs will never come back. New jobs will be created (for instance, there's a huge boom going on now in Biotech in Cambridge and Boston) but there's going to be a massive need for retraining so people have the skills for the newly created jobs. And so far, nothing I've seen in the stimulus packages addresses this.

R188 unaware that "X" stand for Christ in Greek

R196 Xmas, Boxing Day, Easter, all celebrated in the UK as part and parcel of Brit culture and identity. The Queen does not give her annual speech to the nation on Sukkot or Eid al Fitr.

R199 The "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christós (Greek: χριστός), which became Christ in English.

It's also used as the letter "C" in Greek, as above, so not only for Christos/Christ. For instance, the "X" on the funnels of Celebrity cruise ships stands for the first letter of the last name of the Chandris family, the Greek shipowners who started it.

Enough with the religious crap. We don’t fucking care.

R202 you and the voices in your head?

Wow, R203. That’s your idea of some kind of A comeback? It’s weak as fuck. I’m sure I’m speaking for the majority of this thread.

I know you’re probably having church withdrawals. Why don’t you go and fap away in a corner with your rosary beads.

I don't know, this pandemic may actually do the reverse for religion.

In times like this people turn to rituals that help them to feel better. They trade democracy and flexibility for paternalism and a strong leader who takes care of them so they don't have to do the worrying themselves.

What could replace nursing homes? I know Trump undid a lot of regulations for nursing homes. States are going to have to step up and make them a safer place. And have a more thorough check list for inspections.

You can bet the cancel culture/woke bullshit will be GONE in a post-pandemic world.

R207 that would be fantastic! I hope you are right I really do

Why do you R207? Because those people will seem so fanciful and irrelevant? Like v8, I certainly hope so. It was out of control. But am curious as to your thinking about why.

Not 207, but I'll be happy to see the back of the whole woke/SJW/victim culture. It's annoying, sure, but it's also useless. Claiming to be more enlightened and aware and telling others what to do hasn't made many converts. Claiming victimhood lets you wallow in that without fixing the things you complain about - "Shining a light on the problem" is not a solution.

People are going to have to work their asses off for a while just to survive. "Thrive" may not always be possible if you can't pay for it. Presumably the greater need to make a living will cancel some of the foolishness people could indulge in during more prosperous times.

Tranny pandering is going to stop. People have bigger fucking problems than to be concerned if Xe felt misgendered.

R143, I so hope that's not the case. After 9/11, I remember worrying that the horror of that crisis would be used as an immediate excuse to permanently chip away at civil liberties -- and sure as you're fucking born, the TSA's warrantless searches and the NSA's warrantless surveillance followed.

Hopefully:

- handshakes

- open offices (germ incubator)

- going into the office when you can telework effectively

- anti-mask sentiment held by most Americans

So many right-wingers in this thread all the sudden.

A sense of Freedom in the US

I’m personally leading a charge to end use of the phrase: gone/going/went viral.

I never want to hear the fucking word again.

Gone wild, gone wide, whatever.

Close talking, thank God.

I read on the radio that humpback whales will not be coming back after the corona.

I hope it causes sterility. Breeders need to stop bringing so many brats into the world.

Nothing more will be said to have gone "viral."

"Corona" beer will be re-named "Cura" beer.

Old people will cease to regard their ruthless grandchildren with sentimentality and a mention in the will.

As soon as this is over I'm back at the Indian buffet as fast as I can. I need it bad.

The open office concept where people sit close together at long tables with minimal walls. You "hotel" your space, meaning you have to reserve your space each day, and you don't have a permanently assigned space. The germ spreading will cause this to work style to disappear - replaced by working at home permanently with weekly Zoom meetings. Commercial real estate will suffer because firms will need a fraction of the space they used to rent.

[quote] The open office concept where people sit close together at long tables with minimal walls.

COVID-19 may destroy open-concept workplaces, but it had better not destroy open-concept homes!

[quote] The open office concept where people sit close together at long tables with minimal walls.

COVID-19 may destroy open-concept workplaces, but it had better not destroy open-concept homes!

A lot of retailers here in the UK stopped taking cash payments in the week before lockdown - I can see that becoming more common. It's just unnecessary these days and with contactless payment you can complete your transaction without any physical contact.

A shit ton of office space will be converted to residential.

I don't know if anyone has touched on this yet but I wonder if down the road, architectural designs for homes might change slightly. Right now, we have open plan kitchens, and living rooms but I wonder if we might go back to "rooms" which can seal, or be cut off from other areas - for whatever reasons - germ protection, food sterilization, de-toxing, etc.. Or rooms in a home for "public" versus "private" use in that particular are kept "private" or free from other germ-carrying visitors.

Clubs, live music venues, restaurants-- all that shit will come back with vengeance. What I do think will finally have the last nail its coffin: brick & mortar retail shopping. I don't think it will ever come back. I think chains will shut down permanently, perhaps even entire malls. We've been online shopping and hoarding shit for the past 6 months(suspected date of when this all will end); the last thing anyone is going to want to do is "shop".

I don't know. I was at Wally World this morning and it was busy. They're even limiting the number of people in the store at one time, and people were still streaming in and out. I don't think food shopping is going to move online any time soon.

It will all come back all of it, everyone will forget and move on.

Malls.

Large theme restaurants.

Most retail stores of various sizes.

New office construction.

New home building for at least five years.

Anything that will have to do with people being able to travel and take vacations when working a minimum wage job.

Most jobs.

New car sales.

I think there will be a lot of things go back to the way they were because capitalists will play to people’s greed: 2 4 1 flights, 30% off! Buy one, get three free movie tickets! In store only! They’ll do it and the sheep will retail. But I do think it will speed up even further the change in bricks and mortar. There will always be some, but less in the end and less sooner.

Where I think there will be change is working arrangements... but mostly because companies will realize they can save a fortune on office space costs and services. Comparatively few companies must actually own their buildings anymore. Employees will also think twice, possibly, about working open plan - a great money saver for the organization but less appealing to the person who has to breathe through it.

Wonder what will happen with Disneyland/World and all theme parks...

R233: They will be fine.

Yup, just ... fine.

the whole concept of sharing and event with 100s or 1000s of people at a venue

I suspect that working from home will become more accepted, that parents, people who live in the suburbs, etc. will be allowed to work at home a few days a week once everyone realizes that many white collar jobs don't require you to be in an office with other people to do them.

Office potlucks/birthday parties and baby/bridal showers will become extinct. It's a shame a disaster of this magnitude had to happen to rid us of these annoying office rituals.

Crossing the road to avoid someone you don't want to speak to will no longer be frowned upon.

Please, we're all itching to get back out and shop and drink with friends and strangers and go see live music and dance. Most things will see a huge bump in business (unless they have to fold before things become "normal" again)

Kartrashian whores and mom pimps

The only thing I care about is live theatre surviving. It's the single greatest cultural asset we have as humans.

General Admission SRO concerts. No responsible venue owner will allow them.

I hope to God I never need a nursing home for any reason.

A vaccine that can be safely be dispensed according to Fauci and others can be up to 2 years off. That means as they say 'waves' of the virus until then. That means if cruises and theme parks, concerts and theater open up during the summer everything has to be shut down all over again. You have one covid case on a cruise and all hell will break loose. How long can Disney theme parks stay closed without the entire company going belly up? I doubt their streaming service can support the entire corporation.

You can't keep opening and closing businesses until herd immunity is developed which could take years.

You want to talk about modern medicine? We are back in the 15th century with this thing. Overwhelmed hospitals, people being left to die drowning in their own phlegm and medical staffs having nowhere near what they need for care of patients and self protection. And that's irrespective of care people need for non covid related illnesses.

Kardashians. Who cares

Thank you, R244, you’ve cheered us up no end.

United States of America

Sears

Short hairstyles on men

Toilet paper

Sex workers

R248 "Short hairstyles on men"

Why? I've been giving myself crop cut's for nearly 20 years now.

Could you crop out that extra apostrophe next time, R250? It's a grammatical mullet.

crop cut's = crop cut is? No.

crop cuts = plural

I'm already a person who buys tickets to events and then doesn't go. Now I won't even buy.

I've taken bus tours to other states. Never mind (Emily Latella voice).

Forget the hopefulness of plans.

R248 is salivating about the prospect of the return of the Mullet

Clippers with variable guards allow me to do their own short cuts at home

Lying beyond lying about China and tariffs.

We are not taking in anything, we are paying, yet he just said we're gaining "billions and billions and billions"!!!!

WHY IS HE NOT CORRECTED?!?!

IS THERE NOT ONE REPORTER OF INTEGRITY AND COURAGE????.

Does Trump seriously believe that a trade tariff is a TAX on CHINA??

Aaaaaannnnd.....not one refutation from the Peanut Gallery.

Boeing "had a problem with one (plane)." Not one word about the 300+ dead, when Boeing KNEW.

Sorry, wrong thread for the last three posts! I'm just so furious!

Community style nursing homes.

People over the age of 65.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, R259. It tolls for thee.

Team sports with their overpaid athletes. Fan's won't be allowed to gather in stadiums, arenas, etc. And athletes in close physical contact risk catching the virus.

Until there’s a vaccine you won’t be able to go out anywhere without risking getting it. Touch a surface and absent-mindedly touch your face just one time is all it will take. There will be no peace of mind at all (unless you’ve had it and have antibodies.)

R260 I know. I'm racing towards it.

Will no one MARY! r242?

I would say music is the greatest cultural asset we have as humans.

R207 I was thinking the same thing. God willing.

The USA

Facials.

Makeup testers on display at Sephora, Ulta and Department Stores (if dept stores still exist)

Saying "God Bless You" when someone sneezes, it will be replaced with "Get the fcuk away from me."

[quote]Fan's won't be allowed to gather in stadiums

Fan's what, dear?

r268 Those are the kinds of "facials" most of us care about.

My good friend's life. She is one of those "always chats up strangers because she's a people-lover" types: restaurants, stores, concerts, standing in line anywhere, church,.....

Me, I'm aloof. Keep away.

Artist who play arena and stadium tours will need to think again.

Personally, I think my mindless spending will disappear.

I've saved so much money not buying unnecessary odds and ends at Target, Dollar Tree and especially Home Goods/TJMaxx/Marshalls/Ross where I tend to buy every cooking, baking and kitchen gadget known to mankind.

Same goes for online shopping.

I think we will finally do away with the concept of servers at restaurant. Everything will be like counter service, ordering and picking up at the counter. I don’t like having to wait on a server at a restaurant. When my order is ready, I’m capable of getting it at the window and bringing it back to my table. I don’t need to pay (tip) someone to do that.

I'm retired and can live anywhere I want ... I think I would seriously consider moving to a less crowded area (currently in the LA burbs.) The problem is finding a place that has decent weather and decent health care but isn't densely populated.

"Decent weather" is an awfully subjective term

Decent health care isn't usually located in places that aren't densely populated.

There are a few exceptions, but for instance Rochester, Minnesota is not known for its fabulous weather.

My now lost patience for putting things off for the future.

Humanity

[quote]"Decent weather" is an awfully subjective term

No humidity, no snow, no excessive heat. So, basically -- the California coast.

The Amish beard fad.

Unfortunately many local mom and pop stores.

Multi Movie theaters

Antique stores

R284 true, but then they were already fading out anyway, because of the drop in values and the internet. Overheads for physical stores need to drop immensely if places like antique stores and many other such businesses to remain viable

Antique stores will probably be OK, it's one of the few places where you really are better going to in person so that you can inspect your purchase.

Americans' memories of this time and of the horrors.

Give it four years.

Hmm, R281, if you should tire of that particular Amish beard man...

I think all those things OP mentioned will come back. The thing I wonder about is the New York subway system. To me that’s the biggest petri dish.

r289, it needs to be shut down. London also. If you can’t drive to work, you need to move or find work somewhere else. The age of sardine packed mass transit must end.

The Metro system in DC as well.

[quote] The thing I wonder about is the New York subway system. To me that’s the biggest petri dish.

It’s still open and has remained so. I doubt you’ll see any significant change.

1.2 million Americans

Group exercise classes strike me as the most dangerous. It’s the heavy breathing that is most contagious. There’s a story about a church choir where everybody ended up getting infected. Even at 25% capacity, a workout class is full of people inhaling and exhaling massive amounts of air in close proximity.

Buffets probably will figure out workarounds. More plexiglass. Disposable food gloves as you go through the line (the cheap plastic ones). And possibly much higher labor involvement where employees do the plating and serving (as well as more individual plating like you see at the high end Vegas buffets now). But every Buffet will have to be re-designed And with the dive in business for at least a year, I would guess most of the cheaper ones will go under

For fucks sake, R289, R290 and R291 (and anyone who feels obliged to suggest their own specific city's metro system.) How do you you think people will get to work, to go to school, to the airport, to see a museum exhibit, to get a marriage license, to attend a court hearing?

You think that we should just digitize the content of museums, sell off the art works, and put it all online? That we will shut down the airports because videoconferencing and video-tourism and tele-teaching and tele-justice and home delivery will shut everything down? And we all just stay at home all the fucking time behind locked doors, a safe distance from any neighbors, never setting foot in the world?

It's not just people writing computer code on his laptop in their guest bedroom/office instead of an office cube in the city center, it's the people who make the laptops, the people who repair his toilet, the people who keep Netflix with a supply of films and series so we don't have to read, the people who live near fuck all who grow our food, the people who deliver all of these things,

The 19th Century, to take just one example, was a plague a minute: cholera, yellow fever, typhoid, scarlet fever, smallpox, more... Huge waves of disease with enormous death tolls followed by more and more, year and year, decade after decade. In retrospect people made a lot of hindsight-stupid mistakes, but the population would have declined to nothing had they all stayed in their houses for a century until things started to get a little better. Except it never really did, certainly not from1918-1922, and not with polio and smallpox and influenza and the rest.

In two centuries of rampant disease and death, great novels were written, art movements changed the way we see the world, jobs changed, ways of working changed, healthcare and longevity changed, travel and communications changed everything, some obscure places became big and important while others declined, new countries arose, and none of these things happened because people retreated from cities and closed lines of connection and stayed at home for years (magically, as if even plausible.)

Virginity

[quote]I don’t like having to wait on a server at a restaurant.

Where I eat, they wait on me.

I think reasonable prices at small establishments will disappear (ice cream shops, sandwich shops, casual mom/pop dining and diners), prices will be much higher. The additional cost of providing employees with masks/gloves, additional cleaning and smaller capacity will make it impossible to keep prices as they were before.

BOGO deals will probably be history. Rewards programs at stores will make it more difficult to earn enough to get free stuff. Kohl's Cash, CVS Buck etc. will have higher minimum to be met.

Nothing will change because our shithole country is run by rich, white old men who want us all dead.

Bless you, r295.

[quote] For fucks sake, [R289], [R290] and [R291] (and anyone who feels obliged to suggest their own specific city's metro system.) How do you you think people will get to work, to go to school, to the airport, to see a museum exhibit, to get a marriage license, to attend a court hearing?

Millions of people drive to work every day to the office in cities that aren’t so dense. A lot of big cities in the U.S. don’t have subway systems.

And New York doesn’t have the parking capability for that.

Sometimes during the week with the subway running you can’t find a parking garage that’s not full.

R295, You overlook one thing: Yes, clearly the human race has survived the previous manifestations of the Four Horsemen, even though millions died while cures were discovered and developed.

But though we are far more advanced medically and scientifically, we have met a virus that has flummoxed us, that has placed us back in the 14th Century.

THAT is what terrifies---that there exists a deadly illness that 21st Century Man can't immediately mitigate or cure. Our frailties and limitations are writ large.

So masses of people are determined to defy the threat, to shout "Hold my beer!" while celebrating the false assurances of flawed fellow humans who are in positions of power.

R9 Also, all the hugging at church. Just stop it! I don't want to shake your hand or hug you. I swear, when the priest says "Go in peace" and everyone hugs, half of the pervs are feeling tit.

R304 GET OUT FRAU!

r305, thank you.

[quote] Self-Isolating on "The Beagle"

Are you at the Regal Beagle? We’ll meet you there in a few.

Politely holding the door open for someone entering the same establishment as you. Sorry, I’m not trying to be rude, but I don’t want to get that close to you.

Cash/money

[quote] Politely holding the door open for someone entering the same establishment as you.

I still intend to hold it until the person following gets close and then let go so it hits them.

Marry me!

“Americans like the illusion of safety so they let government fuck with them whenever they want!” George Carlin

The new normal will be like living in an airport. Rules and thousands of restrictions in the name of health safety. Love your house make peace with your house because out there will not be fun.

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[quote]we have met a virus that has flummoxed us, that has placed us back in the 14th Century.

We have not.

We have a 14th-century administration. Build a wall and inject bleach are the big responses.

A normal administration would have been all over containment and mitigation at the right time. It would have coordinated state responses, and it would have facilitated production and supply chains of testing and treatment materiel.

Point taken, r314.-

If you thought flying was hell from 2001 to February of 2020 wait till you see what's coming....

Wait till you see what’s coming .....