'I don't think we'll ever, ever get back to "normal"' People keep saying this, but it's a meaningless sentiment. The "normal" of today was never going to be th

'I don't think we'll ever, ever get back to "normal"' People keep saying this, but it's a meaningless sentiment. The "normal" of today was never going to be the "normal" of two years from now, with or without this pandemic. It's not like the world was going to be frozen in time until this coronavirus came along. Before 9/11 we didn't have to take off our shoes to fly. Now we usually do. Im sure there will be plenty of similar changes due to the pandemic, and most of them will be similarly easy to adapt to, just as we adapt to so many other changes year after year. But this threat that we may never "get back to normal" rings hollow to me.