CNN insists: We are never going back to normal

American Thinker ^ | 10 Oct, 2020 | Eric Utter

[MtnClimber]

A recent cnn.com article about the coronavirus pandemic opened by stating, "[T]ry to take heart in one discomfiting fact: Things are most likely never going 'back to normal.'" (Yes, who doesn't "take heart" at "discomfiting" things? Anybody at CNN have a dictionary?)

The piece mocked "back to normal" as a "well-worn phrase" that people "like to lean on," nothing more than simple-minded "nostalgia for the world of January" when "life more closely resembled our past decades." Perhaps, the author(s) mused, people yearn for things to "get back to normal" as "a bid to show control, to revert to a time when change was not so universally imposed upon us." You think? It is, among other things, a desire to get out from under the heel of a tyrannical government and recoup one's constitutional, God-given rights.

The post suggests that those who hold jobs will continue to work from home, that shaking hands and embracing others will be things of the past, and that the majority of our interactions will be virtual rather than in person. It infers that many jobs are not coming back and that certain relatives might just have to continue to die alone, our goodbyes put on hold forever. It cites Thomas Davenport, the president's distinguished professor of information technology and management at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The professor states: "Politicians who pretend that 'normal' is just around the corner are fooling themselves or their followers, or perhaps both." It went on to cite another Davenport remark: "People who suffer tragedies eventually return to their previous happiness level." Pretty sure that's not always the case, Tommy — especially as regards those who once lived in a free society and have had their freedoms taken from them suddenly and capriciously...and, if this CNN article is correct, permanently.

[wny]

If people meekly submit to this crap, they’re right.

[Daniel Ramsey]

CNN treats us like Korean dogs before they are butchered.

[OrioleFan]

Maybe they can come up with a robot in a factory that can be controlled by a worker at home... The only workers you would need in a factory would be maintenance and janitors.

[Kickaha]

Here’s one they already put down the memory-hole.
Flatten The Curve

[reformedliberal]

PDJT has GOT to start using that phrase — often and loudly. Two can play that game
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That might make a dent, at least.

Got told that by an ardent mask-wearer, recently. I didn’t waste my time making any points....it would fall on deaf ears or just provoke a rejection.

[Vaduz]

Words of wisdom from CNN reporterette in row boat in 4 inches of water.