A Simpler Life? - Society / Economy after the Virus

[MadImmortalMan]

Typically crises seem to cause people to be willing to go along with infringements they normally would not support. And typically those things far outlast the crisis. We're still waiting for the patriot act to go away twenty years later, Afghan war, etc. It's always a bad sign when something passes in Congress with overwhelming bipartisan or unanimous support.

[Legbiter]

Air traffic will be back before land borders open as it is very easy to track. Germany will allow East German farmhands for the harvest, but only via plane, so that they can be segregated easily.

Yeah that's another thing, how are the big five Western European countries going to get the harvest in now that the cheap seasonal labor pool is banned from travelling? Conscript the idle service & office workers for farm duty? 

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm looking forward to workplaces changing. Who is still going to think those horrible open communal office spaces are a good idea after this? The decline of cube farms should help everyone's' sanity too. I'm not sure though. Squeeze's point wasn't far off. The impulse will be to get right back to how it was. We blew that real estate bubble right the hell back up. We might need something like this to recur before people get the point.

I have to admit I'm a bit amused seeing extroverted people going apeshit being stuck outside of their comfort zone, when introverts have to go outside theirs all the time in the extroverted world just to have careers and everything.

[Tamas]

I'm looking forward to workplaces changing. Who is still going to think those horrible open communal office spaces are a good idea after this? The decline of cube farms should help everyone's' sanity too. I'm not sure though. Squeeze's point wasn't far off. The impulse will be to get right back to how it was. We blew that real estate bubble right the hell back up. We might need something like this to recur before people get the point.

Yeah would be nice but I am afraid we'll back to the office spaces.

I have to admit I'm a bit amused seeing extroverted people going apeshit being stuck outside of their comfort zone, when introverts have to go outside theirs all the time in the extroverted world just to have careers and everything.

Ain't that the truth. 

[mongers]

What assumptions from the pre-virus era are people here still operating on and what have you given up?

[Maladict]

Oddly enough I'm a lot less caught up in the issues of the day, and spending more time doing things I want/choose to do. It's not bad at all.

[mongers]

Oddly enough I'm a lot less caught up in the issues of the day, and spending more time doing things I want/choose to do. It's not bad at all.

Yes, that's a good outlook.

Currently I'm only watching the news twice a day, plus languish browsing, no other social media.

[derspiess]

What assumptions from the pre-virus era are people here still operating on and what have you given up?

First thing that came to mind was that I feel vindicated in my near-obsessive handwashing habits

[mongers]

What assumptions from the pre-virus era are people here still operating on and what have you given up?

First thing that came to mind was that I feel vindicated in my near-obsessive handwashing habits

Yeah, there's got to be a lot of OCD types out there saying I told you so.