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After Covid

How do you think people will react once Covid is sufficiently contained? Do you think they will live in moderation or do you think society will ramp up the partying, the shopping, the drunken orgies to make up for lost time?

by Anonymousreply 9October 24, 2020 5:53 PM

I think more people will be working from home now that corporations and companies realize they can pass on the cost of real estate to their employees.

by Anonymousreply 1October 24, 2020 3:10 PM

Based on history, after wars, revolution, depressions, plagues...

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by Anonymousreply 2October 24, 2020 4:35 PM

Masks are here to stay

by Anonymousreply 3October 24, 2020 5:09 PM

I will be letting loose...I'm not getting any younger, you know.

by Anonymousreply 4October 24, 2020 5:18 PM

Agree R3 and hopefully some of these newfound diligent thorough disinfecting routines as well

by Anonymousreply 5October 24, 2020 5:18 PM

Nothing will change

by Anonymousreply 6October 24, 2020 5:44 PM

I don’t think Covid is going to be contained for a long time. In the US, we missed our chance to do that quickly, like with SARS. It also looks to me like any vaccine would only be effective for several months, much like a flu shot. So we will probably be dealing with huge waves and smaller upticks in infections for a few years. Eventually, our immune response will be better at combating it and it won’t be so dangerous.

But Trump may have done irreparable damage to the public’s ability to take this seriously by stoking conspiracy theories about Covid and downplaying its seriousness. If 30-40% of the population consistently resists things like masks, social distancing, contact tracing, and an eventual vaccine, Covid could be a big problem for a decade or more.

by Anonymousreply 7October 24, 2020 5:44 PM

We will get Covid and flu shots every year and live with it the way we live with flu under those circumstances.

by Anonymousreply 8October 24, 2020 5:50 PM

1:99 % will stay

Tax havens and loopholes will stay

Lobbyists will stay

Banksters will stay

Military industrial complex will stay

Austerity politics will stay

Racism and identity politics will stay

Privatization will stay

by Anonymousreply 9October 24, 2020 5:53 PM
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