Posted on 05/13/2020 12:07:16 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Officials are delineating the parameters of relaxing stay-at-home orders that have throttled the global economy, yet a few companies are already giving the public a glimpse of life once stringent coronavirus restrictions begin winding down.
Currently, states and cities are crafting a pell-mell retreat away from lockdowns designed to contain the COVID-19 crisis but that have decimated growth and the jobs market. Yet, it's widely acknowledged that social distancing protocols that enforce small crowds — and require the use of face masks in public — will remain in effect.
Already, a range of big and small businesses around the country are actively implementing the post-lockdown “new normal.” It’s become a catchphrase that has defined public discourse since COVID-19 upended societal norms, and brought the global economy to its knees.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
No mask, no distancing, no Gates/Fauci/China vaccine, no app on my phone, and I will be shaking hands. I am not participating in the “new normal”.
New normal somewhere between a 10 year depression and venesuela. Gov doing exactly what they were doing in 1929 and in many ways worse. No evictions crazily inflating the currency
For a Yahoo article it was nice to see most of the comments were against the “new normal.” I recently started paying for more things with cash instead of debit to piss off the lefties.
BBC World Service had Fauci fanatic, Laurie Garrett, on during the Senate hearings. scathing about Trump Admin:
30m to 37m42s.
AUDIO: 52:59 - 12 May: BBC Newshour: Coronavirus: Russia has second-highest number of confirmed infections after the US
Also in the programme: senior US health adviser Dr Anthony Fauci warns states against re-opening too soon and risking new outbreaks. We speak to Pulitzer Prize winning author Laurie Garrett about how the US has handled the crisis...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172x2yp12274xj
BBC gave a shout-out to this article by Garrett:
2 Apr: New Republic: Grim Reapers
How Trump and Xi set the stage for the coronavirus pandemic
by Laurie Garrett
https://newrepublic.com/article/157118/trump-xi-jinping-america-china-blame-coronavirus-pandemic
Garrett says it will take 36 months to see off the virus and return to normal; need to raise an army to vaccinate the entire world population in 36 months:
VIDEO: 22:28 - 8 May: CNN Anderson Cooper/Sanjay Gupta: Part 4: Entire CNN coronavirus town hall (May 7)
Laurie Garrett (columnist Foreign Policy), the author of “The Coming Plague”, gives her assessment of the current state of the coronavirus outbreak and shares predictions for the future of the pandemic.
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/05/08/entire-may-7-coronavirus-town-hall-part-4-sot-vpx.cnn
Buncha fukin idiots with no perspective
or belief in human nature.
The social engineers are grabbing all the
power they can to rule the world.
How long before Trump and a few others say
enough of this bullshit and let’s get back
to the normal “normal” and the rest of
you losers can stay home and hide in the shadows.
For as long as I can remember Yahoo has had right-wing comments on a left-wing site. It’s never made sense
Soon or it will be too late.
Years go by fast and Trump is the last big hope. Hopefully he has four more years to get things back to normal
California is the Social Justice Warrior Theme Park
Coming attractions
Nothing...
(I’ll finish this thought tomorrow)
Right on. What a bunch scaredy cats there are preaching about the new normal. Sperm counts really are decreasing.
The plexiglas will be there forever?
Social distancing and plexiglas shields are going to be with us for a long time.
Just the other day, Uber
Used one Tweet to lay off over 3000 drivers.
The speaker was crying a little as she said it, but the message was clear; “Good Morning, this is your last day of employment through Uber.
We deeply regret this unexpected announcement.”
Knightly believes that with so many white-collar professions working remotely, employers are likely to ask hard questions about whether they need as much office space, and whether business travel is necessary.
Last month, Barclays (BCS) CEO Jes Staley told reporters that “the notion of putting 7,000 people in a building may be a thing of the past.”
Cool, less drivers on the road. Those 9-5ers like to tailgate.
Urban sprawl coming to that nice neighborhood you live in soon. It’s the subplot from the article that is well worth the reading. We’re going to see the cities start to get crazy. As landlords start to foreclose and people start moving out those left behind will be in bad shape. Can’t afford to stay...can’t afford to leave.
But...the bigger thing is if you are not tech savvy you are going to get left behind. It’s going to be a bourgeois world for a while. Winging off to Las Vegas isn’t going to be happening for the old average joe. The spacing out of entertainment centers means they will need to double/triple their pricing to make a profit. Major entertainment for families...like a Disney vacay...nope. It will be out of reach for a majority of people. Go enjoy it without the crowds. They will only book you into the best hotels on the property. Older versions will be closed and torn down quickly. Right now there’s a push to keep restaurants up and operating. Many are not going to make it under the health department’s social distancing clauses. Price of a meal will have to go up ...not down in order to make a profit. Only the bourgeois will be able to afford it. Gone will be the days of eating out 5 times a week.
Liberals always talked about the ‘wealth gap,’ well they are about to see what a real ‘wealth gap,’ looks like. It is about to get incredibly obvious.
Best place to be right about now is small town, middle of the country, deplorable USA. Staying local, buying local, farming it out and maybe a remote job, enterprise, or a darn good book. Small towns generating their own micro-economies.
Just finished writing my own and grateful to get paid on it last week. Moving to set up online classes based off it and at least getting the tech end up and running. Editor isn’t releasing the book until August, but at least I’ve already been paid on it.
American life is moving into an interesting place. Will it bring about a return to the central family, slower pace and self-sufficiency? It will be a rocky road to get there.
Anybody offers me their hand, I will shake it. Fauci can be pretty wacky, sometimes.
Soon, every retailer will be forced by their insurance company to require masks and 6ft distancing by the customers in their stores, and it will be permanent.
It’s the same reason why so many retailers always post “No Guns” signs everywhere: The insurance companies demand it.
The only way to prevent Masks Everywhere Forever is for Congress to pass a COVID relief bill that includes an amendment for liability immunity from lawsuits by customers.
Ditto that. Trump needs to continue his pushback against this.
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