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The new normal won't be normal. Sure we have a vaccine bug everyone will be afraid for the next pandemic which could be even worse than covid. The danger of pan

• clouddrover 6y ago
  > The danger of pandemic will permanently alter how we operate as humans. It never has before. It won't this time either.
  • olliej 6y ago
    The Black Death drastically altered how European society worked, playing a large part in the death of serfdom. The other large scale pandemic that comes to mind was the Spanish flu, but that was during WW1 so it's hard to separate out any changes caused by it vs. WW1, and WW1 also did a lot to hide pandemic specific death rates reducing likely flu specific impact on society. That said the relative brevity of the covid pandemic makes me doubt that there will be any large scale changes to society - I suspect it's mostly going to be the normalization of a lot remote work type things. There was already one article about snow days being replaced with remote learning, which was clearly possible years ago but needed the pandemic to become a plausible replacement, etc.
• shishy 6y ago
  I sincerely doubt this. Behavior has hardly changed even in the middle of the pandemic. I expect it to revert back for the most part. (It may have changed a lot for some demographics, or in some parts of the world, but I don't think the average has changed much... when cities opened up in the summer it was bustling and business as usual, even before a vaccine).