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In your opinion, what lasting societal changes will result from the current pandemic?

What will we learn? 

Posted - March 25, 2020

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  • 6988
    Hopefully, less buying of Chinese products.
      March 25, 2020 5:46 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Agreed. (Assuming someone else starts making those products)
      March 25, 2020 6:47 PM MDT
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  • 11103
    I think there will be a social  change in the way people get their exercise.  Before the virus lots of people went to the gym but now lots of gyms are closed so people are finding other ways to get their exercise. I watched a  clip of a guy putting a little cooking oil on a tile floor in front of a counter - then he put his hands on the counter and started walking (it was like a treadmill). People are also working around the  house to get their exercise. Right now the grave, mulch and topsoil  businesses are booming so maybe after a day of wheelbarrow work folks will start thinking that it was the best work out that they have had in years - quit the gym and start doing  their workouts around the house. Cheers! 

    This post was edited by Nanoose at March 25, 2020 7:13 PM MDT
      March 25, 2020 6:26 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    So, better yards and cleaner houses?
    To think it took a pandemic...
      March 25, 2020 6:59 PM MDT
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  • 44604
    Mayhaps folks will be more helpful to one another. Pipe dream?
      March 25, 2020 7:14 PM MDT
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  • I thought that was you at the swap meet. :P

      March 25, 2020 7:32 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    I suspect people may be a little happier to just stand next to each other. 
      March 25, 2020 8:59 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    I live in New York City - population around 8.5 million.  You can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone.  The one great thing about this virus is that we all have to stand farther apart from each other.  
      March 25, 2020 10:18 PM MDT
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