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First off I am far from those Covid deniers i.e people downplaying the health crisis and anti mask mandates restrictions etc, nor I am one of those who thinks Bill Gates will put chips in my blood and along with Xi,Biden will push the great reset button.
There maybe some Private and government actors trying to capitalize on this pandemic and what not but that is another topic.
Nothing Normal about spikes and death rate in different parts of the world
Nothing Normal about losing your sense of smell and taste.
Can't they just say we are in a long term health and financial crisis?
So back in March when more and more countries imposed restrictions media all over the world started publishing articles about the upcoming "New Normal" like health screening, mask mandates, mandatory PCR test to get on a plane etc,
Different media groups from Big news international networks to small internet based think tanks all wrote numerous articles about this "new normal" and some make it so with great enthusiasm other governments even tried to push laws bills called the New Normal bill.
They should just drop this term, nobody feels normal the Anti Mask mandates certainly don't think this is normal but neither people who support restrictions and other more reasonable groups.
It is like they are just throwing buzzwords and trying to normalize some event they don't have any idea how to handle.
There is nothing Normal about Hospitals in different countries almost always at full capacity every other month.
Certain resource persons invited by the media even said not everything will go back to normal etc,
They should just admit it that this thing may drag on and there is no telling when we can get back to normal as the situation is really unpredictable instead you get different Op eds either comming off as a fear mongering or downplaying the pandemic.
Can't they just say "Well right now it is better we wait for more data and we will see maybe once cases of drop we can start to study when can we get back to a more normal routine.
I just think all this media trope about forcing or framing a narrative that normalcy is coming back soon but with some inconvenience just fuelled more speculation and the conspiracy nuts.
It also did not helped that some writers came off as alarmists like saying this virus won't go away and deliberately posting incomplete medical studies, and remember those "environmentalists" who all raved about how clear the air is how pollution went down,
Certain News groups kept on re-blogging those pictures and trying to hi-jack the on going health crisis to address another issue.
Now I am by no means a global warming denier but I just find it disingenuous that they have to bring it up prominently during this pandemic, like can't we just focus first on this Virus problem for now? and we can think of the weather/environment more at a later time on a different forum?
TLDR:
They should just drop this term, nobody feels normal the Anti Mask mandates certainly don't think this is normal but neither people who support restrictions and other more reasonable groups.
It is like they are just throwing buzzwords and trying to normalize some event they don't have any idea how to handle.
There is nothing Normal about Hospitals in different countries almost always at full capacity every other month.
Nothing Normal about people needing to wear mask inside malls.
Certain resource persons invited by the media even said not everything will go back to normal etc,
They should just admit it that this thing may drag on and there is no telling when we can get back to normal as the situation is really unpredictable instead you get different Opeds either coming off as a fear mongering or downplaying the pandemic.
There maybe some Private and government actors trying to capitalize on this pandemic and what not but that is another topic.
Nothing Normal about spikes and death rate in different parts of the world
Nothing Normal about losing your sense of smell and taste.
Can't they just say we are in a long term health and financial crisis?
So back in March when more and more countries imposed restrictions media all over the world started publishing articles about the upcoming "New Normal" like health screening, mask mandates, mandatory PCR test to get on a plane etc,
Different media groups from Big news international networks to small internet based think tanks all wrote numerous articles about this "new normal" and some make it so with great enthusiasm other governments even tried to push laws bills called the New Normal bill.
They should just drop this term, nobody feels normal the Anti Mask mandates certainly don't think this is normal but neither people who support restrictions and other more reasonable groups.
It is like they are just throwing buzzwords and trying to normalize some event they don't have any idea how to handle.
There is nothing Normal about Hospitals in different countries almost always at full capacity every other month.
Certain resource persons invited by the media even said not everything will go back to normal etc,
They should just admit it that this thing may drag on and there is no telling when we can get back to normal as the situation is really unpredictable instead you get different Op eds either comming off as a fear mongering or downplaying the pandemic.
Can't they just say "Well right now it is better we wait for more data and we will see maybe once cases of drop we can start to study when can we get back to a more normal routine.
I just think all this media trope about forcing or framing a narrative that normalcy is coming back soon but with some inconvenience just fuelled more speculation and the conspiracy nuts.
It also did not helped that some writers came off as alarmists like saying this virus won't go away and deliberately posting incomplete medical studies, and remember those "environmentalists" who all raved about how clear the air is how pollution went down,
Certain News groups kept on re-blogging those pictures and trying to hi-jack the on going health crisis to address another issue.
Now I am by no means a global warming denier but I just find it disingenuous that they have to bring it up prominently during this pandemic, like can't we just focus first on this Virus problem for now? and we can think of the weather/environment more at a later time on a different forum?
TLDR:
They should just drop this term, nobody feels normal the Anti Mask mandates certainly don't think this is normal but neither people who support restrictions and other more reasonable groups.
It is like they are just throwing buzzwords and trying to normalize some event they don't have any idea how to handle.
There is nothing Normal about Hospitals in different countries almost always at full capacity every other month.
Nothing Normal about people needing to wear mask inside malls.
Certain resource persons invited by the media even said not everything will go back to normal etc,
They should just admit it that this thing may drag on and there is no telling when we can get back to normal as the situation is really unpredictable instead you get different Opeds either coming off as a fear mongering or downplaying the pandemic.
