Novatrix
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- Oct 17, 2017
We're veering a bit off topic here, but @rteetz I would argue the window dressing changed as a result of 9/11, not the content.
Ultimately, plane travel decreased for a bit and then resumed. People still used planes to travel.
Virologists have been saying for years that we've been overdue for a global pandemic, yet no one began reinstating pandemic policies when we had the SARS and Ebola scares. As soon as government regulations lift, life will start returning to what people remember. People who had in person business meetings in the past will still have in person business meetings as soon as travel restrictions are lifted. Snow days are not needed for the children's education, they're needed for working parents who won't be able to foist remote learning off on daycare. Businesses may continue to provide sanitizer, but people will stop using it as frequently as soon as they feel the danger has passed.
To @Krandor's point, businesses will take this as an opportunity to reduce services they already wanted to do away with and will return them depending on what it takes to recapture the market. Changes that will stay wil be cost reducing measures that they were planning to do anyway (like mobile ordering, or Disney streaming new movies for a premium on their own platform)
What I meant by returning to the old normal was Disney holding in person races to get people to come with their families to the parks during slow seasons. There will be as many numbers as they can reasonably accommodate on the course, and they will be maskless. There will be some photo ops for people to share pics/video/vr on whatever the in vogue social media app of the time will be. If Disney can reduce the number of aid stops in interest of cost reduction, they will, but there will at least be some due to public outcry. I do think the Wine and Dine afterparty will be gone permanently, but we'll see what the next decade brings.
Ultimately, plane travel decreased for a bit and then resumed. People still used planes to travel.
Virologists have been saying for years that we've been overdue for a global pandemic, yet no one began reinstating pandemic policies when we had the SARS and Ebola scares. As soon as government regulations lift, life will start returning to what people remember. People who had in person business meetings in the past will still have in person business meetings as soon as travel restrictions are lifted. Snow days are not needed for the children's education, they're needed for working parents who won't be able to foist remote learning off on daycare. Businesses may continue to provide sanitizer, but people will stop using it as frequently as soon as they feel the danger has passed.
To @Krandor's point, businesses will take this as an opportunity to reduce services they already wanted to do away with and will return them depending on what it takes to recapture the market. Changes that will stay wil be cost reducing measures that they were planning to do anyway (like mobile ordering, or Disney streaming new movies for a premium on their own platform)
What I meant by returning to the old normal was Disney holding in person races to get people to come with their families to the parks during slow seasons. There will be as many numbers as they can reasonably accommodate on the course, and they will be maskless. There will be some photo ops for people to share pics/video/vr on whatever the in vogue social media app of the time will be. If Disney can reduce the number of aid stops in interest of cost reduction, they will, but there will at least be some due to public outcry. I do think the Wine and Dine afterparty will be gone permanently, but we'll see what the next decade brings.