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To: Ron H.

I agree. Hard to predict all of the changes, but I think movie theaters will fade away. People are happy enough streaming content at home.

I also think a lot of Americans have depended on restaurants too much. They are expensive and possibly unhealthy. But many Americans don’t know how to cook (some folks microwave a frozen dinner and call it “cooking a homemade meal”). I wonder if food preparation as a hobby will really take off.

And when social isolation ends, will people decide that social media and their phones are not really good substitutes for contact with people? Handy tools, sure, but maybe being tied to electronics all day isn’t ideal.

Changes of some kind are bound to occur.


12 posted on 04/14/2020 5:10:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’m 40 and I got sick of the cell phone tether several years ago. When I get home from work, I put my phone on the hutch and usually check it only once close to bedtime.

It’s interesting to see how people react when it takes you three or four hours to respond to a text or voice message. In today’s age. many people assume you’re ignoring them because most people are glued to their phones. It is unfathomable to some that I leave my phone at home when I go run errands, or more especially, when I’m relaxing or doing an activity with my family.


31 posted on 04/14/2020 10:52:20 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan ("MSNBC News? Appalling. Appalling and amateurish. So both at the same time; it's a bad combination.")
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