I think you are right. For one thing, the restaurants are opening at only 25% capacity at first. People are used to cooking at home and living more frugally. It may be a long time before the economy comes “roaring back”.
I’m seeing some other very disturbing signs with respect to food, oil, healthcare, well a lot of things. My husband says I’m too pessimistic but I am getting a real bad feeling.
Look, here is the thing: all this social distancing has prevented us from getting herd immunity. Now we are reopening but without herd immunity so the cases are going to continue on and on and any uptick is going to result in new restrictions. Plus extreme contact tracing measures being put in place which will never go away. All of this is going to be brought out again every time a new virus comes along. The next swine flu, the next MERS the next SARS. We are going to be expected to wear masks all the time now. And we still aren’t letting ourselves get herd immunity so the threat will never go away, and this is the new norm? The new way to handle viruses? It’s so abnormal. It is not at all the way a species is designed to handle these things.
There will always be one contagious pathogen or other hanging around to fear, and we are being conditioned to accept all these new behaviors as they keep extending the lockdown, or reopening in such half assed ways that it will take years for the economy to recover, and it will not be able to before the next virus comes along.
This is leading us straight into a cage. Totalitarian control of our lives.
The totally sad and pathetic thing is how quickly the economy has been destroyed, AND with virtually no pushback from citizens or any people formerly known as conservatives.
Finally, 6-7 weeks into this, Bill Barr is telling US attorneys to start looking for violations of the Constitution. Thanks a lot, but START? Have you not been looking into this since the first stay at home order, since Easter literally was crushed by state governments?
Join or Die. We are at that point. And once again, only 3% of the population will be willing to do anything about it.