Posted on 09/02/2020 6:16:05 PM PDT by packrat35
The City after the pandemic is a shadow of its former self and the government may struggle to persuade its workers to come back.
Commuting into - and working in - the City daily during the COVID-19 crisis has, at times, been a depressing experience.
I began working in the City 30 years ago and have spent most of the intervening period since working in and around the Square Mile. It is an inspiring place.
The City, along with Canary Wharf to the east, is the throbbing engine of UK capitalism.
It is where entrepreneurs raise the money that helps turn their dreams into reality.
It is where more established companies raise the capital that helps them invest in their businesses and create jobs, as well as wealth for their shareholders.
It is where governments far and wide, when they need to borrow money, turn.
It is also where the suppliers of capital - savers and investors - look to see their money put to productive use.
This pulsating financial village currently feels a shadow of its former self.
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The lockdowns are killing cities, small towns, and individuals world wide. This has got to stop.
The CDC practically admitted the whole thing was a scam a few days ago.
The Chicom plan is coming along nicely.
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Yep, nice biological torpedo.
“This has got to stop.”
It does.
It’s not only the lockdowns, which are happening in areas governed by the radical left. Many people enjoy cooking at home and avoiding heavy traffic. The change, to whatever extent, is permanent. People who don’t like it will adapt. It’s time to start manufacturing some useful things on our own soil anyway.
Depends on the small town and the state it’s in. I was just in a town that a few months ago was doing beautifully, has a small college, was building a tourism reputation (it’s very picturesque) with a fine hotel and good restaurants - and then they forbade indoor dining, limited indoor shopping, enforced a mask order, made city employees run around wearing face shields...and now half of the businesses are closed for good, much vacant property is for sale, and the streets are empty except for a few people scuttling by with their eyes down. The students are pretty much isolated on campus and have to wear masks, so the town has essentially exiled its young population.
And the town did it to itself. So make sure you have a firm hand on your mayor or city commission or whatever your form of government so that it doesn’t happen to your town! The thing that really gets me about this is how many localities, ranging from our biggest cities to our tiniest towns, have been so caught up in the hysteria that they have essentially committed suicide.
Things that can’t go on forever, don’t.
Leeme help ya. It's a smaller town where there hasn't been any riots, no arson, no looting, no vandalism, no one is marching through the streets, and no one is being drug out of their vehicles and beaten etc. So we feel we're light years better than these crime ridden leftist big cities. This isn't real complex.
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