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Will Changes to American Life Become Permanent?
Townhall.com ^ | October 22, 2020 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/22/2020 4:33:19 AM PDT by Kaslin

The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting, and protesting -- all in a presidential election year -- are radically disrupting American habits and behavior.

Rents, home prices, and office occupancy rates in major cities, especially on the two coasts, are dropping fast. Techies and young professionals have discovered that they can work from home without paying sky-high housing costs in order to be close to the office.

Those more fortunate wonder why they should get bogged down with commutes and urban traffic -- or navigate city sidewalks amid homelessness, crime, racial tensions, and urban unrest -- when they can make as much money while staying distant in quieter landscapes.

Some react by moving to quieter, low-tax states such as Idaho, Tennessee, or Utah. Others flee New York City or the Bay Area/Silicon Valley corridor to upstate New York or California's Central Valley. Who would have ever believed that housing prices in picturesque San Francisco would be falling while housing prices in pedestrian Sacramento and Fresno are soaring?

During the recent urban renaissance, young people had flocked to cities to be where the action was. Now, do they want to deactivate and find some independence and peace from the relentless chaos?

Worries about COVID-19 in high-density cities, and unreliable city services add to the unhappiness. Residents want less dependence on mass transit and elevator living. Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; politics; vdh; violence
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1 posted on 10/22/2020 4:33:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Will Changes to American Life Become Permanent?


To a degree, yes. I think we’ll be like China. There will be some people who always wear masks in public for the rest of their lives.

And the economy is “permanently” shrunk. Consumerism will take a hit for the long term. Not a huge hit, but a hit.

Movie theaters may be gone for good in the same way that drive-in theaters are gone. That is, not completely, but more as a novelty.

Etc.

And after the election this question may be moot anyway.


2 posted on 10/22/2020 4:46:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Kaslin

I believe this upheaval will have permanent results.

Many societal institutions are now broken terribly — restaurants, movie theaters, cruises, concerts, festivals, sports arenas, etc.

The standard work-at-the-office model is broken, as noted in the article. As is classroom teaching.

Societal interaction has been stymied — kids not playing with others, office interactions (and romances), fun large crowd events (like county fairs).

Our society is being further dismantled, as cultural Marxists desire and require.


3 posted on 10/22/2020 4:50:57 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Kaslin

The contagion may accelerate change that was coming down the pike anyway. Think the internet of all things.


4 posted on 10/22/2020 4:59:09 AM PDT by buckalfa
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To: Kaslin

Just think... All this chaos for an illness with a 99.5% survivor rate.

Insanity is what we have.


5 posted on 10/22/2020 4:59:59 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught
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To: polymuser

Th ere is considerable fear that our church will never be the same. Among the elderly, once the habit is broken, Sunday mornings will be different.

We’ll see

there is considerable fear


6 posted on 10/22/2020 5:03:53 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, o. h, my, what a wonderful day)
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To: Kaslin

The government NEVER relinquishes power, and now the bureaucrats have found out that declaring an emergency essentially gives them limitless power to micromanage people’s lives. Expect crime involving firearms, racism and the “climate crisis “ to be declared public emergencies. The separation of powers is all that can save us but only if judges aren’t agenda driven and can see through the abuse of power. I am not going to hold my breath.


7 posted on 10/22/2020 5:06:51 AM PDT by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
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To: Kaslin

Why automatically assume that these changes will be BAD?? Having grown up rural and spent much of my life in semi-rural areas, I can’t see de-urbanization and “internetization” having other than long-term GOOD effects. Most of our societal problems today are the result of mega-cities.


8 posted on 10/22/2020 5:08:59 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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To: HypatiaTaught
Just think... All this chaos for an illness with a 99.5% survivor rate.

I'm still not convinced that this wasn't a planned joint effort between China and the democrats.
9 posted on 10/22/2020 5:17:52 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: Kaslin
Once a series of vaccines start to come unto the scene by early spring and later,then 🇺🇸 American will begin the much needed recovery.
10 posted on 10/22/2020 5:27:42 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Wonder Warthog

So Democrats will spread to red areas and everything will end up blue or purple. It is better to not dilute Republican areas.


11 posted on 10/22/2020 5:27:44 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Kaslin; All

Please see Post #10.


12 posted on 10/22/2020 5:33:18 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl
"Once a series of vaccines start to come unto the scene by early spring and later,then 🇺🇸 American will begin the much needed recovery." That is the line the government will use to make vaccines mandatory for participation in any group activity.
13 posted on 10/22/2020 5:45:04 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: Biggirl

Some vaccine-related related thingies:

Event 201, pandemic response practice Oct. 2019 - highlight video:
https://youtu.be/AoLw-Q8X174

ID2020, everything about you:

https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines

ImmuniPass - Your vaccination data card; will you he allowed to enter businesses?

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/515743100/the-world-s-first-covid-19-immunity-passport-has-been-issued

Blockchain Digital Identity Alliance - your credit leash:

Https://youtu.be/F1EVs2GMsRg

Lucifer’s minions have been working very hard on this marking of us.


14 posted on 10/22/2020 6:05:52 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Kaslin
They probably will.

ff

15 posted on 10/22/2020 6:05:59 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: PghBaldy
"So Democrats will spread to red areas and everything will end up blue or purple. It is better to not dilute Republican areas."

We disagree. I think the exact opposite is likely.

16 posted on 10/22/2020 6:17:36 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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To: polymuser

They want it to be permanent, because it has meant the total destruction and suppression of the private sphere. We are no longer allowed to go to church, to engage in recreation and amateur sports, no longer allowed to pursue careers and no longer even to gather in family groups.

The government loves this. All activities, thoughts and actions shall belong to the state, and can be prohibited at will if the state feels they are a threat to its hegemony.

And they achieved all this, the true Marxist dream, in the space of 6 months with virtually no resistance. No, they’re not going to give it up ever.


17 posted on 10/22/2020 6:19:50 AM PDT by livius
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To: CondorFlight

a fake vaccine for a fake virus


18 posted on 10/22/2020 6:21:11 AM PDT by Craftmore
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“a fake vaccine for a fake virus”

To achieve the things in post 14. To mark us all.


19 posted on 10/22/2020 6:32:58 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Craftmore

a fake vaccine for a fake virus

Never heard of a hoax that killed 227,419 Americans and 1,137,884 people worldwide. What about the rest of the world, including our allies? Are they all in it too?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

20 posted on 10/22/2020 6:39:39 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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