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Just reading the news about how life will change going forward.
Restaurants will be unrecognizable. Plexiglass all around the table, even in between persons seated together.
Salt/pepper packets, not shakers, temperature taken before you enter etc.
No more shopping malls. Gotta make an appointment to shop, person follows you around and you can't touch anything to get a closer look or try anything on. Curbside pickup. What about returns? Gotta make an appointment for that too?
No more going to concerts or sporting events. I guess the music industry is finished too! What about filming tv shows and movies?
Everyone wearing a mask.
Even if a vaccine does come out how can we trust there's nothing added to it by sinister individuals who have a depopulation agenda? I won't be taking any vaccines because I have a strong distrust of something that's pushed by the government.
Planet Earth's future looks glum. Who would want to bring children into such a crap show? Does anyone else feel like this? Or is there a way of looking at this that might provide any rays of hope?
If not we can always hope the Earth calls in a 20 mile wide astroid from space to shake us all off the surface.
Oh stop with the theatrics. Humanity has survived plagues and epidemics before and it will in the future. If anything it will make people stay cleaner and keep things clean. It will force restaurants to scour ALL the surfaces and no more of th dirty dish towel to wipe down tables. With social media the number one thing that will kill your business now will be uncleanliness.
Humanity will adapt to the epidemic. Besides people die of the flu, Ebola, SARS, MERS, bubonic plague and we survive all that as a planet.
So please stop with the world is ending bs. It’s not gonna end anytime soon
In the moment it’s hard to see this, but in time I don’t think anything negative will really change. It didn’t after 1918, it won’t now either. In 5 years this will be a distant memory of a weird time in the past that wrecked the economy and made people panic. We were all told 9/11 would be the end of our “innocence” or something and that nothing would ever be the same again. Well, I have my TSA precheck and I clear security way faster than I ever did in 2000. I’m not worried about terrorist attacks any more than I was in 2002, and probably quite a lot less, because I now have 19 years of examples of how the government has done a great job (apparently) preventing the next 9/11. Who knows how many heroes aren’t even known to us who maybe did prevent the next one. I feel like people don’t even think about terrorism that much anymore, which is kind of a problem, but shows how well we’ve done there and how nothing really changed in daily life.
Right now it’s easy to feel bleak because most of us have had some or many things ripped away we love. I’m lucky that’s mainly sports for me, and not my business, but in time things will return as they always do. Viruses usually mutate in ways that make them less dangerous, not more dangerous - they’re not intelligent, for one, and two the more lethal a virus, the worse it is at spreading. That’s an unsuccessful virus that kills the host, basically. Everyone can’t wait to say in the media how things will change forever. I don’t buy that at all. I think it’ll be back to normal - old normal, not new normal - within 3 years.
The world, including all the things you mentioned about restaurants, music, and the entertainment industry, will adjust and will ultimately be normalized. You seem pretty young...and lacking the perspective of others who have been on the planet a long time and have seen a lot of **** go down.
Planting seeds of fear in the minds of others based on nothing but speculation, such as in the vaccine example, is not only paranoid but also ignorant. And that's not nice, either. So I guess we're even.
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There are not normal times and it is better to give people a little more slack instead of just name calling. I agree the OP took it to the extreme but for me its understandable.
I'm giving him as much slack as he is giving those who read his post. What if someone who's in even worse emotional shape than he is comes across this rant?? It's irresponsible.
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We will get though this and when we come out of it the world may be a little different but certainly better than all the hoops we have to go through now.
Yes. And jumping through hoops is quite a different and more realistic characterization than the worlds'-end scenario the OP posted.
Every time I felt the tentacles of depression or self defeating behavior, I remember how little we have to be here on Earth. I know it sounds depressing but we start the path to death the moment we are born. So, recognizing that- let go of fear. Yes, this world is different, but it's always been that way. If anything dialing back the hands of time circumstances get progressively more difficult and challenging.
I mean- most people are hunting for toilet paper. There was a time when toilet paper and toilets were nature and you probably took a bath once a year.
Planting seeds of fear in the minds of others based on nothing but speculation, such as in the vaccine example, is not only paranoid but also ignorant. And that's not nice, either. So I guess we're even.
This is their opinion or perhaps they are just venting. There is a big difference between stating ones opinion and name calling. But to you they are equal.
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I'm giving him as much slack as he is giving those who read his post. What if someone who's in even worse emotional shape than he is comes across this rant?? It's irresponsible.
There is endless very negative speculation as to how the next few years will shake out. Everyone is free to speculate.
The Week published an editorial that is much more bleak than this thread. If that is the writers feelings it should not be censored.
Yes. And jumping through hoops is quite a different and more realistic characterization than the worlds'-end scenario the OP posted.
We will move past the virus at some point. What kind of hangover our society and economy faces at that point is anyone's guess. But the day to day extra stuff most people have to put up with is not permanent. That seems to be the point of this thread. Not the end of the world but how annoying it is to not be able to freely do what you want and feeling that may be permanent.
This is their opinion or perhaps they are just venting. There is a big difference between stating ones opinion and name calling.
I happen to think there's a difference between mere venting and calling for the world to end, which is exactly what he did in the title. In fact, I resent it very much.
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The Week published an editorial that is much more bleak than this thread. If that is the writers feelings it should not be censored.
I'm not trying to censor him. I'm disagreeing.
That's what you're doing too.
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Originally Posted by Oklazona Bound
We will move past the virus at some point. What kind of hangover our society and economy faces at that point is anyone's guess. But the day to day extra stuff most people have to put up with is not permanent. That seems to be the point of this thread. Not the end of the world but how annoying it is to not be able to freely do what you want and feeling that may be permanent.
LOL um no. That's quite a whitewash of this thread.
Just reading the news about how life will change going forward.
Restaurants will be unrecognizable. Plexiglass all around the table, even in between persons seated together.
Salt/pepper packets, not shakers, temperature taken before you enter etc.
No more shopping malls. Gotta make an appointment to shop, person follows you around and you can't touch anything to get a closer look or try anything on. Curbside pickup. What about returns? Gotta make an appointment for that too?
No more going to concerts or sporting events. I guess the music industry is finished too! What about filming tv shows and movies?
Everyone wearing a mask.
Even if a vaccine does come out how can we trust there's nothing added to it by sinister individuals who have a depopulation agenda? I won't be taking any vaccines because I have a strong distrust of something that's pushed by the government.
Planet Earth's future looks glum. Who would want to bring children into such a crap show? Does anyone else feel like this? Or is there a way of looking at this that might provide any rays of hope?
If not we can always hope the Earth calls in a 20 mile wide astroid from space to shake us all off the surface.
Hope that for yourself, not everyone else.
Your gloom and doom attitude is literally saying the sky is falling, but sadly you are almost hoping it literally does fall.
Much of what you are bemoaning are first world problems, that most of the rest of the planet wishes they had the luxury to deal with.
People around the world are starving to death, dying of diseases, and in some cases living no better than animals. Yet you are worrying about adjustments to life via social distancing and precautions we are taking.
Every time I felt the tentacles of depression or self defeating behavior, I remember how little we have to be here on Earth. I know it sounds depressing but we start the path to death the moment we are born. So, recognizing that- let go of fear. Yes, this world is different, but it's always been that way. If anything dialing back the hands of time circumstances get progressively more difficult and challenging.
I mean- most people are hunting for toilet paper. There was a time when toilet paper and toilets were nature and you probably took a bath once a year.
Thank god for flushing toilets. That is all.
This is a first world problem.
Somehow we have people on this planet who don't have "toilet paper".
or don't have money for a Concert or cable TV or the Internet.
or don't even have food to survive the next day or access to healthcare.
Meanwhile in America it's about...toilet paper !
I'm sure there are people across the World who would gladly trade their lives for ours having to deal with a shortage of toilet paper.
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