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What do people think the "new normal" will be? #2766048
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Restaurants - Plexiglas booths?

Schools/colleges - Online schooling. Would be a big cost saving to get rid of those buildings but social skills would suffer.

Groceries - Online ordering a pickup/deliveries. Wife an I were doing Hello Fresh for a couple years but FedEx TOTALLY dropped the ball on the last 2 weekly deliveries. They were 4 days late. Yuck. I had to cancel the service. BUT if the shipping companies can ramp up to handle the load of this new normal I'll sign up again. GREAT way to get healthy, home cooked food. One of my employees also gets bulk produce delivered. We are probably going to split/share orders. Guess the companies that normally supplied restaurants are now delivering to residential customers.

Banking - Who goes into a bank anymore? The ONLY time I goto a bank is to do wire transfers. Bank said I can setup my own account so I dont even need to go in to do that. Old fashioned checks I just scan and deposit using a phone app. Invetsments, IRA's, all done online.

Mail - dont get me started. Letter should cost $5 to send to discourage. They should become obsolete. Junk mail too. Instead of home delivery have massive storage/po box places. Would eliminate 10's of thousands of vehicles and hundreds of thousands of workers. The postal system is a dinosaur.


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Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: 71TA] #2766052
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Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: dIc dOc Deity !] #2766055
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My company has been very hesitant to accommodate working from home, that said, I'm going on 4 weeks of working from home now. I think we'll see a shift in the availability to work from home, to some extent. This will offer some relief to congestion, traffic, fuel consumption as well as [negatively] extra spending [eating out, stopping by the store on the way home, etc.].

Masks will be extremely common in the US for at least several months after this, it will be the next trendy thing to have and ensure that you are seen as "healthy". People strive for that image.


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Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: 71TA] #2766058
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The new normal will be almost identical to the old normal. The question is only how long it takes to get there.

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: BSharp] #2766066
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Once this is over I think it'll go back to normal over time. Maybe more stores will offer the buy online and pickup at store deal if they didn't before and they think it is beneficial.
The only paces I see the plexiglass barriers staying are maybe any high risk places were employees were already pushing for them before but the store didn't want to spend the money on it.

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: 5thAve] #2766079
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Until there is an effective, reliable Vaccine; millions will stay home.

With the new professional office layouts favoring "Hoteling", the number of folks going to the office will be largely reduced in the near term. People will be scared to go to an office. Also, in the near term, onboarding for new employees in office situations will be challenging. New office employees over 50 will have an especially hard time. Over 60, are in for very tough times.

Probably 1/3 of the retail outlets and small businesses will not survive. Commercial landlords will have a glut of space in the next 1-3 years.

Costco, Lowes, and Amazon will be just fine.

As newspapers fail, small retailers and service companies will turn to increasingly obnoxious ways of looking for customers.

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: 71TA] #2766081
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Originally Posted by 71TA
Schools/colleges - Online schooling. Would be a big cost saving to get rid of those buildings but social skills would suffer.


I teach auto at a tech college. We can(and currently are) teach theory online but for the skilled trades(current HUGE demand) they need to be in the labs. In order to keep teaching skilled trades(and do it well) we will need those buildings and everything that goes with them. Our tag line is Hands On Higher Ed( not virtual hands on)

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: BSharp] #2766129
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Originally Posted by BSharp
The new normal will be almost identical to the old normal. The question is only how long it takes to get there.



Agreed, humans are creatures of habit and conditioning...

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: DAYCLONA] #2766134
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Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: DAYCLONA] #2766135
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Originally Posted by DAYCLONA
Originally Posted by BSharp
The new normal will be almost identical to the old normal. The question is only how long it takes to get there.



Agreed, humans are creatures of habit and conditioning...


New habits take about 2 months to form, we're there. Not to say they won't be broken, but there are many things that people once saw as "critical" to their lives as completely irrelevant in the future.

My favorite example is sports, it's been completely stripped in all forms from the Globe. Once considered a religion by some has dissolved and people have found other things to do and have probably reconsidered many priorities in their lives. Will they still watch? Probably. Will they still feel they have to watch every game and keep up? For the most part, I think not.

Time will tell, but it's been long enough to adjust many things once considered necessary.


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Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: GoodysGotaCuda] #2766147
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The new normal will be almost identical to the old normal. The question is only how long it takes to get there.


I completely agree. It won't take long for things to go back to normal. Just look at 911. A huge segment of the population wasn't even born when it happened. With the exception of airline regulations and extra bag checks when you enter large venues, what has changed? People will forget about this fairly quickly IMO.

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My favorite example is sports, it's been completely stripped in all forms from the Globe. Once considered a religion by some has dissolved and people have found other things to do and have probably reconsidered many priorities in their lives. Will they still watch? Probably. Will they still feel they have to watch every game and keep up? For the most part, I think not.


I don't agree with this at all. I'm pretty much the only person at work who doesn't live and breath sports. Everyone I work with has been going crazy without it. I'm talking about people who have their kids in every possible sport. They are at sporting events EVERY weekend and most week nights. I don't get the appeal but for the people I work with sports are their life. That will not change one bit.

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: BSharp] #2766153
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Originally Posted by BSharp
The new normal will be almost identical to the old normal. The question is only how long it takes to get there.


Agreed. And that normal will be preceded by a staggered roll-out.

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: Diego (not Ted)] #2766155
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I not a sports freak but I sure wish they would open bowling alleys before too long. The three leagues a week I bowl is just about my only steady recreation.

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: stumpy] #2766160
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Very few places accepting cash so I think we will see cash go by the wayside fairly soon.

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Originally Posted by Superfreak
Very few places accepting cash so I think we will see cash go by the wayside fairly soon.


Doubt that. Too much crime revolves around cash. Think most politicians would be VERY upset to see the end of cash.


And sports, man I'm glad I never caught whatever that is. If every ball (and puck) sport ended tomorrow I wouldn't miss it. I just don't get it.

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I think you'll see some light rules put in place so the economies can re-open (masks at work or to shop etc) and those rules will slowly fade away as we squish the virus and things will go right back to the way they were. I also believe you'll see that the huge shut downs were overkill and history will prove it and remind all of us about it frequently.

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Originally Posted by SRT6776
I also believe you'll see that the huge shut downs were overkill and history will prove it and remind all of us about it frequently.

I think that's premature, until the lifecycle of this virus is fully understood, especially regarding how it mutates. There are people right now who have had the virus, both here in the US and abroad, been 'cured' but then two weeks later have retested positive for the virus and start to show symptoms again.

https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2020/04...ovid-19-then-they-tested-positive-again/

https://thehill.com/changing-americ...-coronavirus-patients-in-south-korea-are

This virus strain can be spread by people who have it but show NO symptoms. I realize people are going nuts over being cooped up and over the loss of their livelihoods, But unless social distancing continues, we might well see death rates approaching those of the 1918 Spanish Flu. In the US, that was 670,000, when the population in this country was a lot less dense than it is today.

In short, we need time for the real science to be done and an effective vaccine is made available. Studies have already concluded that the malaria drug that's been touted as a cure is not effective in a broad enough portion of the population to be a cure.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sto...ronavirus-patients-in-controlled-studies

Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: 71TA] #2766177
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I don't think much will change around here. Self isolation isn't anything new here, it's a way of life.


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Re: What do people think the "new normal" will be? [Re: ] #2766180
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Originally Posted by Superfreak
Very few places accepting cash so I think we will see cash go by the wayside fairly soon.


Where are you? Cash works fine here. Nobody not accepting it that I know of.

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