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Cultural norms around coming in to work/taking your kids to daycare while they’re sick, and around wearing masks on busses and trains have permanently shifted.

Cultural norms around coming in to work/taking your kids to daycare while they’re sick, and around wearing masks on busses and trains have permanently shifted. Before covid, it was a normal practice that if your kid had a nasty cold, you would load them up with Tylenol and bring them to daycare anyway, knowing that their fever wouldn’t show up till around noon, giving you a half day to work. Before covid, it was a point of pride to come in to office when sick; it showed that you were able to tough it out to support the team. Now, you get an official reprimand for that. We may never have another “flu season” again. To be honest this is how it always should have been- this change in behavior is long overdue but sometimes it takes a crisis to get people to reevaluate their behavior.

wahern 6y ago
> Cultural norms... have permanently shifted. A bold statement, especially to be made whilst the pandemic is still ongoing. Maybe put a pin in that and revisit it 5 and 10 years from now.
- ksaj 6y ago
  I agree. What strikes me about images from the Spanish Flu is that they went through the same things we are going through now. Look how long it took for everyone to forget their lessons learned. The more one reads up on it, the more difficult it becomes to deny how much we are repeating history. This has always been the case among the masses. Look at how we vote in one party, get exasperated with them, vote defiantly for the other, rinse and repeat without ever actually getting anywhere with it. In Canada, the cliché pattern is that we vote in the Conservatives and they mess the country up financially. Angrily people vote in the Liberals and rejoice until a scandal breaks. As a result, they turn and vote Conservative... repeat, repeat. We are creatures of comfort, and eventually (and surprisingly quickly) we'll be right back at life as if nothing happened these past couple years. Any lessons and new habits will be forgotten in record speed.

wahern 6y ago

> Cultural norms... have permanently shifted. A bold statement, especially to be made whilst the pandemic is still ongoing. Maybe put a pin in that and revisit it 5 and 10 years from now.

ksaj 6y ago
I agree. What strikes me about images from the Spanish Flu is that they went through the same things we are going through now. Look how long it took for everyone to forget their lessons learned. The more one reads up on it, the more difficult it becomes to deny how much we are repeating history. This has always been the case among the masses. Look at how we vote in one party, get exasperated with them, vote defiantly for the other, rinse and repeat without ever actually getting anywhere with it. In Canada, the cliché pattern is that we vote in the Conservatives and they mess the country up financially. Angrily people vote in the Liberals and rejoice until a scandal breaks. As a result, they turn and vote Conservative... repeat, repeat. We are creatures of comfort, and eventually (and surprisingly quickly) we'll be right back at life as if nothing happened these past couple years. Any lessons and new habits will be forgotten in record speed.