What’s Your “New Normal?” Request/Idea?

[kramerica.inc]

With all of this talk about “returning to normalcy,” I think people are missing the fact that the world won’t be exactly like it used to be a few mos ago. Not should it be.

This pandemic has exposed a lot of weaknesses and strengths, and told us a lot about human nature. It’s showed us who are “essential,” its showed us that there are better ways to do things, and that gov is both too heavily involved in some areas of our life, and woefully missing in others.

So what does the new normal look like?

I’d like to suggest the following “new normal” ideas for when we open back up:

-Buy/support/shop/play lax local.

-No shaking hands. Ever.

-Hand sanitization stations at the entrance of every store.

-Keep delivery service, including for local restaurants selling food and packaged goods.

-Shorten the work week, move to 32 hours “full time” and people take a 20% pay/hour cut to stimulate hiring, increase labor demand and focus more on work/life balance ( family and friends )

What things would you like to see change for the better after this pandemic?

Let’s talk ideas, not people, please. There are other threads for that!

Let’s hear those thoughts!

[DMac]

No more Bachelor or Bachelorette show.
Please????

[Trinity]

Is Tinder dead?

[MDlaxfan76]

No more Bachelor or Bachelorette show.
Please????

Good thread idea, Kram.

and some provocative starter points.

I kinda think of this as before and after vaccine.
I do think some aspects may persist well beyond, but that persistence may depend on how long the pre-vaccine period persists and how many waves we go through. We crave contact and touch for good, evolutionary reasons and I suspect we will continue to do so.

Right now we're focused on the next 6-18 months of 'new normal' and its impact on our business and the philanthropies we're involved in, as well as personal life plans.

For instance, we were discussing how we do the work of one org, whose mission includes 'building learning communities', more online instead of the face to face processes traditionally employed, very successfully. I suggested that we think of this as not just a challenge, but rather as an opportunity to explore expanding our reach and impact.

Will give it more thought.

[dislaxxic]

No more batmeat omlets?

..

[Farfromgeneva]

Is Tinder dead?

Yes and Amazon and Google go in halfsies to buy PornHub which is now the number one website in the world.

[Farfromgeneva]

Skeptical people won’t go back to business as usual in a relatively short timeframe, like a year. Maybe that’s my wall st background where people forget the past by the time next bonus rolls around. Sure there’s always a few li me a boss I had mid 2000s in NY who wouldn’t let me throw in on a gold mining services LBO because he remembers “taking losses in Peruvian min deals in 1980” but for the most part I’m condition to expect that you can’t believe what lost people say in a moment of uncertainty or high volatility..

[kramerica.inc]

This event has certainly stressed the system. We need a to move healthcare away from being tied to jobs.

[CU88]

This event has certainly stressed the system. We need a to move healthcare away from being tied to jobs.

+1

[Farfromgeneva]

Been a problem since the 1960s. But that’s no more a virus issue than it was a financial crisis issue.

[seacoaster]

Good thread idea, Cosmo; thanks.

I like your list:

"-Buy/support/shop/play lax local.

-No shaking hands. Ever.

-Hand sanitization stations at the entrance of every store.

-Keep delivery service, including for local restaurants selling food and packaged goods.

-Shorten the work week, move to 32 hours “full time” and people take a 20% pay/hour cut to stimulate hiring, increase labor demand and focus more on work/life balance ( family and friends )."

What "replaces" the handshake? Just a polite nod of the head?

A 32 hour work week would be very nice to see, but the arc of work is so hours intensive to keep headcount down, I just have a hard time seeing this happen, much as I'd like to see it.

Picture yourself in six months on the subway, and a guy lets go a big and unfettered sneeze. Do we now agree this person can be publicly called out? It's not just bad manners anymore.

[kramerica.inc]

Handshake replacement? Head nod with good eye contact heck, maybe just in flu season- Oct- May.

Why do companies want to keep headcount down? To lower overhead. Take healthcare off the plate for businesses and overhead becomes minuscule to what it currently is.

4 day work week would be good. But businesses will of course push back on it unless you remove healthcare from their costs.

[seacoaster]

Handshake replacement? Head nod with good eye contact heck, maybe just in flu season- Oct- May.

Why do companies want to keep headcount down? To lower overhead. Take healthcare off the plate for businesses and overhead becomes minuscule to what it currently is.

4 day work week would be good. But businesses will of course push back on it unless you remove healthcare from their costs.

Yes, can't disagree with any of that.

[ardilla secreta]

Handshake replacement?

Vulcan hand gesture.
https://images.app.goo.gl/cNWXxTYc3KQBgwwz9

[youthathletics]

One could argue things like hand sanitizer got us in this mess, not to mention prescribing antibiotics every time someone gets the darned sniffles.

We will never be able to combat something we can not see as the common folks getting through daily life. I believe we should resume as it were, with the only change being places of business now provide more investment in sanitary/custodial services.....stop treating them like low pay throway employees....they are crucial in our lives. And because this is in the political thread, it also infuses 'manufacturing' back into the US for medical, PPE, and sanitation products.

In the grand schedule of things, the very low percentage of deaths globally, will soon be forgotten, as another new pretty butterfly news story sidetracks us to soon forget the Spring of 2020.

As noted elsewhere, I have been working daily outside the home, and frankly, there is little change...other than a heightened awareness of our surroundings and respect to each other....it has been more pleasant out there. I actually have high concern for the ambulance chasers that begin the litigious process after the dust settles.

Long story short and to answer the thread question.....I say do not live in fear, practice good hygiene and to be good stewards to mother earth. And most of all, try not to forget the time we just recouped with our family, and that it was really a gift that we would have otherwise not been granted...I am certainly grateful.

[Typical Lax Dad]

One could argue things like hand sanitizer got us in this mess, not to mention prescribing antibiotics every time someone gets the darned sniffles.

We will never be able to combat something we can not see as the common folks getting through daily life. I believe we should resume as it were, with the only change being places of business now provide more investment in sanitary/custodial services.....stop treating them like low pay throway employees....they are crucial in our lives. And because this is in the political thread, it also infuses 'manufacturing' back into the US for medical, PPE, and sanitation products.

In the grand schedule of things, the very low percentage of deaths globally, will soon be forgotten, as another new pretty butterfly news story sidetracks us to soon forget the Spring of 2020.

As noted elsewhere, I have been working daily outside the home, and frankly, there is little change...other than a heightened awareness of our surroundings and respect to each other....it has been more pleasant out there. I actually have high concern for the ambulance chasers that begin the litigious process after the dust settles.

Long story short and to answer the thread question.....I say do not live in fear, practice good hygiene and to be good stewards to mother earth. And most of all, try not to forget the time we just recouped with our family, and that it was really a gift that we would have otherwise not been granted...I am certainly grateful.

Ask Von Miller how it’s going....

[youthathletics]

One could argue things like hand sanitizer got us in this mess, not to mention prescribing antibiotics every time someone gets the darned sniffles.

We will never be able to combat something we can not see as the common folks getting through daily life. I believe we should resume as it were, with the only change being places of business now provide more investment in sanitary/custodial services.....stop treating them like low pay throway employees....they are crucial in our lives. And because this is in the political thread, it also infuses 'manufacturing' back into the US for medical, PPE, and sanitation products.

In the grand schedule of things, the very low percentage of deaths globally, will soon be forgotten, as another new pretty butterfly news story sidetracks us to soon forget the Spring of 2020.

As noted elsewhere, I have been working daily outside the home, and frankly, there is little change...other than a heightened awareness of our surroundings and respect to each other....it has been more pleasant out there. I actually have high concern for the ambulance chasers that begin the litigious process after the dust settles.

Long story short and to answer the thread question.....I say do not live in fear, practice good hygiene and to be good stewards to mother earth. And most of all, try not to forget the time we just recouped with our family, and that it was really a gift that we would have otherwise not been granted...I am certainly grateful.

Ask Von Miller how it’s going....

Exactly...see above in red.

[Typical Lax Dad]

One could argue things like hand sanitizer got us in this mess, not to mention prescribing antibiotics every time someone gets the darned sniffles.

We will never be able to combat something we can not see as the common folks getting through daily life. I believe we should resume as it were, with the only change being places of business now provide more investment in sanitary/custodial services.....stop treating them like low pay throway employees....they are crucial in our lives. And because this is in the political thread, it also infuses 'manufacturing' back into the US for medical, PPE, and sanitation products.

In the grand schedule of things, the very low percentage of deaths globally, will soon be forgotten, as another new pretty butterfly news story sidetracks us to soon forget the Spring of 2020.

As noted elsewhere, I have been working daily outside the home, and frankly, there is little change...other than a heightened awareness of our surroundings and respect to each other....it has been more pleasant out there. I actually have high concern for the ambulance chasers that begin the litigious process after the dust settles.

Long story short and to answer the thread question.....I say do not live in fear, practice good hygiene and to be good stewards to mother earth. And most of all, try not to forget the time we just recouped with our family, and that it was really a gift that we would have otherwise not been granted...I am certainly grateful.

Ask Von Miller how it’s going....

Exactly...see above in red.

You can see polio and smallpox champ?

[youthathletics]

WTH are you talking about? Or are you just in #Troll mode again?

[njbill]

People will keep a six month supply of toilet paper in their homes. Home remodelers will run specials on toilet paper cabinets.