Topic: The New Normal - page 3. (Read 603 times)

Certainly now internet services have gained a great deal of interest from lots of customers. The Internet is truly one of the indispensable things today and the Covid pandemic has increased the importance of the internet in people's lives today.
I believe that after the covid pandemic is under control, people will be more inclined to use technology. Sometimes it creates a long-term habit for many people in the future, maybe this is a big turning point for better developed internet services.

I think technology might just have saved us from a pretty huge market crisis which could have arrived due to covid. it's because most of the service providers were able to provide services during lockdown due to internet. Virtual meetings became the new trend which saved many businesses. Yes this is true that some people are even thinking of making work from home permanent many companies have already announced this. Moreover, talking about my country, it's a great service sector in my country which would be pretty happy with world getting virtual.

The latest technology and internet has helped the economy in a large scale of businesses around the globe even before the pandemic. So, It's not gonna be the right question to start of.
The question should be, how are we going to maximize the use of internet to expedite the economic recovery?

As we all know, one of the major use of the internet is communication for fast and efficient productivity in any operations. A few of the industries in digital world today that might somehow help the economy (in my country for example) is the BPO, Online teaching, Online health care providers, and other online services.
 Though the biggest contributor of the economic growth is the Agricultural industry that doesn't necessarily requires internet, but It's production and transactions has been limited due to the pandemic. So, these online services will be a good help to somehow cover the economic status from further downfall.

This new normal thing is such a nuisance to add up to this overhyped pandemic. I'm beginning to believe the conspiracy theorist in the internet lol.
This is more likely an attack to destroy the world economy.

it is still only the prediction of experts. But in my opinion we can go back there with normalcy as I was sure of that, although now we have not found a vaccine to destroy the corona. The world still has everything to destroy the corona,it's just still not found it. many experts in any country work hard to find the vaccine every day. because they do not want to die silly. I believe God will certainly give way to all of these disasters quickly disappear ....?

It is not everything that can be done from home and not everyone has the technology to keep working from home and this is part of the reason why rate of unemployment is getting high. School might be shifting back to online for some courses while some that involve practical knowledge are being postponed a lot of individual that run offline business to feed their family and friends are at the crossroad

it wouldn't revive the economy fast but at least we get to have a headstart at least. i actually think this new normal will really be the new normal forever. there won't be anything like vaccine but just government control that is more important here. there ill always be curfew and everything that restrict us from doing what we could do before the virus.

the lockdown cleaned the air in our cities, we can now clearly see the city across the the sea which is just few kilometers. before the virus the city is covered with haze. the one thing this virus did good is making the atmosphere and environment cleaner.   that a good new normal to me.

WOW!  That was so great to hear. At this very strange time where all the countries were struggling with the Virus that cannot be seen, yet rapidly spreading and killed half a million of people globally... You're place indeed is an exemption. Good for you all living there. But, dont just be so comfortable. Covid-19 is not a joke. We must take it seriously, if we want to survive...thanks for the effort in sharing out your opinon. Please know that it is highly appreciated. Stay safe 💕

The pandemic certainly changed how people move and how they think (atleast in our area). Best example is our neighbors who love to mingle every morning or afternoon are few feet apart while wearing mask. That's definitely a "new normal" for them

Seriously though, I believe many were humbled because of the pandemic. I've seen degree holders and high ranking employees switched to online selling, food deliveries, some even joined the transport sector (Grab) to have a new source of income. 

As others have said, there are many sectors who can't go full digital. Digitalization won't make economic recovery that fast but businesses who are mostly digital are keeping the economy stay afloat (i.e legit/regulated online casinos).


I'm curious about the reported cases in your area. Do you follow updates from your Government? If there are none or only a few, then that explains why health protocols are more relaxed.

From where I am from, face masks are strictly enforced and anyone caught not wearing gets fined. Although health protocols relaxed a bit, reported new cases hasn't dropped and our Government continues to assess whether to implement tighter measures.

It's not a fully digital world by any means. Most work and manufacturing can't be done remotely. Some people are working from home and some are milking unemployment, but for the most part things haven't changed that much. The main differences: masks, social distancing and limited capacity inside businesses, more usage of e-commerce and delivery services.

I'm glad the technology (Zoom, etc.) was available so businesses could quickly transition to remote working. It definitely softened the blow of the lockdowns. The economic damage (job losses, output) will still be felt for years after this though.

Things will be back to normal but as long as we are in the pandemic, we must adopt to this new normal.
After this, things will not be the same as it is when there is no pandemic but for sure everything will be back to normal - new normal. Some people are slowly adopting to it while some unfortunately can't and they are just having a hard time right now .

Right now, most of the transactions are being done online and even the classes here are being decided whether it will be done thru online or not. Unfortunately, we in our country have the slowest if not one of the slowest internet speed around the world and it affects everything from transactions from learning modules from how businessmen are speaking with other people online. There are times where the internet is at its slowest. Well, we are lucky though that we can have access to almost all of the information right now thanks to the internet and the technology.

If a person is able to get a work online then it helps the economy because there is cash flowing unto it.
Right now, people are slowly getting back to work already to recover the economy although some just choose to work online.

For me, its not that hard to cope with this new normal as we are not that affected by the virus (luckily in our place, there is still no cases of COVID19) and I've spent my past years online so I know what to do already.

We can do nothing but to accept the reality that we are now. We just need to adjust to our new life and they called it "new normal". Because of this pandemic there are many things we do not expect that can happen in our lives. In my country many are struggling because they can't afford to buy gadgets or even internet connection to use in online study.We need to work with the government so that we can get through this and the situation does not get worse.And like the previous pandemics it will also end and be recorded in history.

its both possible and impossible. posible because some people or some places rather are now operating normally with of course with  practicing safe measures . impossible because we are living with hassel due to strict measures and some people/places arent still operating . the only sure fire way that we can return to our real normal lives is when the virus is totally cleared out and its possible in the future .engaging on modern technology is good because this help  a country to modernize but this isnt enough because we are still experiencing a poor living due to virus .

Sometimes technology and the internet that exists today, can be said to be super sophisticated, but cannot help "Normal" in the needs of human life in this world, internet technology only regulates a few service methods for humans, sometimes during this pandemic, many businesses, etc. are constrained & stuck because they cannot be done manually.

Accidentally to deal with life normally you need to do is: obey the current government regulations, both in activities, work, shopping etc.
For now, in my country there have been many people during this pandemic doing buying and selling activities using crypto like Bitcoin & ETH there are also others.

In exchanging or selling / buying with crypto, there are no rules from the local government, only just anti-virus, from the community in my country, own thinking, to prevent direct contact with cash.
That's what we can do to live a normal life again in our daily activities.

New Normal is just a human experiment
If you watch tv media and read newspaper all the time than you are 100% infected with propaganda.
It is better if we look at real numbers and think with our own heads first, but I guess it is easier to just trust our good governments who only want good for the people  
Fear is making people doing some crazy things and giving up on freedom easy.

There is no 'new normal' in my opinion. Do you think this is the worst pandemic that humans have faced so far? We have survived far worse plagues like Flu, Black death etc over the years and everything returned to normal(Not new or old).

Same applies to the World Wars and other major catastrophies over the years. We humans adapt whenever and wherever necessary no matter what and history has taught us that.

Coronavirus will definitely lead to some changes across the world, but they won't lead to a 'new normal' or anything. This applies to any future catastrophies too.

That term "new normal" sounds like taken right out of "1984" or "Brave New World" - a great example of subliminally manipulative media. You need to get used to wearing masks, obey, you need to get used to constant life threatening viruses, obey - you need to get used to panic and fearmongering, obey! Eventually economy will recover like it always has but the next crisis is just around the corner, thas for certain. "You just make money when there is blood in the streets!" - John D. Rockefeller

The new normal is happening in many countries, but if people underestimate the virus existing, I am afraid that we can see the new wave of the infected of the people. But I am sure that with the new normal, we will have a chance to revive the economy in every country, so we can have a stable economy like what we have before. The help of modern technology helps us stay alive, even if we remain at home because we can use the internet to help us do our work from home. But don't forget that many people out there still struggle to search for a new job. I am trying to follow the new normal rule because I don't want to get a problem.

Working from home became the new normal in the last 4 month. Unfortunately there are still many jobs that can't be done from home and require for people to be in the factory or stores. Overall I think people adjusted fairly well into the "New Normal" but being isolated in the workplace and your social life is too much. Eventually we need to cut back on the restrictions. Reviving the economcy is a first step to a better live but we need to keep the social aspect in mind too. Human beings are herd animals, we survive only in highly coordinated groups. If being individually, we are designed to pick up social cues.

"The New Normal" is a disgusting journalist clickbait cliche.I'm sick of hearing this "the new normal" shit for the last 5 months.
In the place where I live,there's no panic about the pandemic.The masks are required only in hospitals and stores.There's no "new normal" in my town.Everything is normal.I don't know anything about the situation in the big cities of western Europe and USA and I don't trust the mainstream media.
Nobody is "fully" into the digital world.You can just sit in front of the computer for 10 hours.
The large portion of the economy is "brick'n mortar",which means offline.The digital world can't help for reviving the offline real economy.

People always evolve and adapt to a new situation, new ways of living. There is nothing to be afraid of change. Our world changes every day even when we don't face this pandemic. This is just a process that accelerates our changing velocity. There have been several crises in the past, we even had two World war and people still survived and developed their life.

Our life will be definitely different to what we used to believe and although we have been struggling for a few months to deal with this disease, I have a fate that our life will become better day by day and after Covid19 goes away, there will be a lots of advantages and improvements made in order to enhance our current life.