The "new normal" in movie theaters...

What worries me at times is that the public (significant sectors of it, anyway) seems on the way to becoming addicted to this sort of thinking, and are being subtly manipulated into the notion that life is forever after going to undergo some drastic change as the result of this virus.

Those who think this way would do well do ponder on a similar pandemic that occurred just a little over fifty years ago, well within the memory span of many, both here on this board and throughout the country. It too was a global affair that claimed many lives, but both its treatment by the media and its cultural afterlife are hugely different from today. A little trivia question might be: How many of you even remember this event? And if you don't (and are old enough to have recall of it), what does this suggest to you about the manner in which the current pandemic is being handled today?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu