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A troubling pandemic thought: Are THESE the good old days?
By WILLIAM J. KOLE HOPE VALLEY, R.I.©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Strangerland
Yeah, because it's not like this virus doesn't kill people, and leave others with scarred lungs and bad hearts.
I mean, who is stupid enough to think people would be worried about the health of humans right! You'd have to be a rube to think any human cares about health more than the things you just listed.
WilliB
Big Yen
It is not, unless some politicians make it so. Right now, there is a group of elitists who want to use this chance lock everybody in, throttle the economy, introduce censhorship, rig elections, and push through all sorts of social control programs.
Luca
We had world wars, nuclear bombs, black death, spanish flu, earthquakes, typhoons, tsunami... and still we could reach these "old good days".
For sure this virus is not a joke like someone tried to tell us at the beginning, but it's not an apocalypse either. Many countries were not ready, and many people probably didn't care much (and many don't, even now). There will be consequences, and for sure our way of living will change a bit. But maybe not always for the bad (more time with family, and so on). And hopefully we will learn the lesson (but I doubt...). Look at Taiwan: they learnt the lesson the hard way (SARS), but because of that they were ready to react fast and well to the new virus. Plus they never believe what China say :)
For the rest, it's just a lot of IF.... (IF we won't get a vaccine... IF climate changes will get worse... IF some other disaster will happen...)
Some restaurants or hotels are probably going to close... and after new ones will open again. It's not the first time we see it.
Not saying it's not terrible for the people involved in that, but it's just what was already happening before the virus, just multiplied by x times. People will change job, others will find new business, others will open new restaurants and hotels when things will get better.
Aly Rustom
That's what I think and fear will happen.
I totally agree with that. I have no qualms about being stuck at home with the wife and kids. The more I see of them the better.
All I would ask for is a cheap house with a decent size garden for the kids to play in. I'd build a dojo in one of the rooms where I would teach my kids martial arts every day. I'd have a separate room with a home gym from rakuten. we can live on canned goods. Plus Netflix and YouTube. If we have that, we can whether any storm.