re: After COVID is over, what things that were normal before will not come back?

Posted by BluegrassBelle

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:47 am to stout

I’ll be honest. I wouldn’t mind if we kept distancing in places like the grocery store and doctor’s offices. Especially during cold/flu season.

Posted by DaBeerz

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:48 am to stout

There will be some people that will never stop wearing masks in public

Posted by stout

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:48 am to Colonel Angus

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Handshakes.

I was never a fan pre COVID. Some dudes have clammy hands or sweaty hands. It's just gross.

Posted by GetCocky11

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:49 am to BluegrassBelle

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Especially during cold/flu season.

Sick and well waiting rooms are common in pediatric offices. I wouldn't mind seeing this arrangement in adult doctors offices as well.

Posted by Salmon

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:49 am to stout

I honestly can't think of anything, at least not for the vast majority of people

some businesses may move more to the WFH model

some fast food places may have figured out that they didn't lose any revenue by not having the lobby open

things like that...but I feel like normal people will go back to their lives pretty quick, hell most have

Posted by CunningLinguist

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:49 am to stout

A traditional office

Posted by lsupride87

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:50 am to goofball

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Giant family gatherings

These seem to be already back in the south at least

Posted by willymeaux

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:50 am to stout

Buffets

Posted by stout

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:50 am to CunningLinguist

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A traditional office

Yea I believe commercial RE is fricked. Will be tons of cheap office buildings.

Posted by LSURussian

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:50 am to stout

quote:
what things that were normal before will not come back?

Salad bars and Chinese buffets.

Posted by GetCocky11

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:51 am to Salmon

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things like that...but I feel like normal people will go back to their lives pretty quick, hell most have

The only thing I worry about is public schools.

Posted by stout

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:51 am to LSURussian

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Salad bars and Chinese buffets.

What about wing nights at the nudie bars?

Posted by lsupride87

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:51 am to stout

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Yea I believe commercial RE is fricked.

Yep. I honestly see NYC taking the biggest overall nut punch from this long term

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:52 am to lsupride87

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Posted by fallguy_1978

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:52 am to LNCHBOX

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Haven't stopped doing that at the parties I've gone to ? No COVID cases yet.

Most germaphobes that I know are very sickly people.

Posted by Salmon

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:52 am to GetCocky11

Eh. The public school stuff is all about funding. Once they get their money, they won't care anymore. Public schools just realize how much leverage they have and they flexed it.

Posted by Weekend Warrior79

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Posted on 2/3/21 at 8:53 am to BluegrassBelle

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I wouldn’t mind if we kept distancing in places like the grocery store and doctor’s offices

I love the idea that I can wait my car and they will call me when I can walk straight to the room.

As another poster pointed out, I think we saw the end to late night bar hours in the NOLA area.

I think the cubicle world in many professions will go away and you will see more companies offering work from home, or rotating shifts (in the office MWF one week, then T & TH the next; while another shift works opposite).