Thoughts on the Era of Coronavirus

Day-Tripper

Day-Tripper

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Anyone else here spending a LOT more time working at home since early March 2020?

Any comments, stories, reflections, etc.?

Thought it was cool last spring to work at home for, what, 2-3 weeks tops, like a vacation almost?

Working in bathrobes?

Beards? Later on, lack of beards?

Horrific "virtual" meetings?

Spending too much (or more) time working on the lawn or other home projects?

Oddly missing once-cursed hour-long commutes & listening to sports radio (or NPR)?

Wi-Fi issues at home, as spouse and/or kids are at home too & using up bandwith?

Realizing Netflix is actually horrible? Missing going to the movie theater in-person?

Wondering why there is so LITTLE mail these days?

Having an easy excuse for not going to once-deaded in-laws cookouts? (But kinda missing them anyway?)

Once (way, way back in May) viewing mask-wearing in public as weird, now viewing non-mask wearing in public as weird?

Bourbon at noon?

P.S. All of this, of course, is good natured as I acknowledge probably as many as 20% of my fellow Americans are unemployed & facing terrible economic suffering, much less those suffering from health issues from this wretched pandemic. I, and my family, have been truly blessed from lack of hardship in these trying times.
 
Coronavirus = the excuse Americans, and probably most of the west, needed to permanently withdraw into their own little (6 ft) bubbles of isolation and self absorption. Frankly it was already happening, people would much rather stare into their phones than have a face-to-face conversation with people. Now you can just claim “social distancing”. I don’t see people halting this behavior anytime soon. Mask wearing will probably just be the “in” thing to do from now on.
 
I was JUST talking about this to DH. We now have an excuse to not engage with people. Zooming is socially acceptable (although I refuse to do it unless mandatory....I hate it ).

I remember when it was weird, akward and uncomfortable to mask up. Now it’s not only normal, but a fashion piece.

I think that masks will be something that's continued. Absent COVID, we are more healthy! My observations bieing involved with toddlers and kids. Not a single “cold”. The kiddos have better hand washing hygiene.

I also read an article about less illness in the military, and how masks may become a normal thing.

5 years from now, it sure will be interesting to see what “sticks”, and what doesn’t. And what will be the ‘before Covid and after Covid’ parts of our normal lives.
 
justdoit19 said:
5 years from now, it sure will be interesting to see what “sticks”, and what doesn’t. And what will be the ‘before Covid and after Covid’ parts of our normal lives.
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I've thought about this quite a lot as I see many folks that have been so conditioned by months of non-stop "Sky is Falling" that they have not listened to anything new since April or so. I often ride my bike in our very quiet townhouse community and see people walking wearing gloves and masks on their solitary walks. My area was the original hotspot but is now very low in infection rate and caseload but listening to people who have literally not been outside of their house since late February at all makes me wonder when they will be reassured enough to go back to normal.

Right outside our neighborhood is a commuter rail station that has direct trains to NYC. The parking lots total 4 or 5 hundred spots and usually there is a waiting list to rent spots but since COVID, it is almost empty. Recently use has doubled so now there are sometimes 20 cars in the 500 or so spaces in the middle of a weekday.
 
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