Post Pandemic Truth Searching

MIKE BUDER

How do we navigate the future? A challenging question and most of us have our own thoughts. We now live in the information age where a lot of good and bad data is at our fingertips, literally, at the touch of our phone or laptop. We just need to filter through it to determine what is good and what is bad. People of different professions have different perspectives and concerns on this question too, be it psychiatrists, economists, small and large business owners, landlords and even Realtors. And let us not forget the politicians whose perspectives and agenda can largely be driven by which side of the isle they are on. I always try to look at things objectively and take the positive approach, no matter how difficult and complicated that might be.

Let’s consider the phrase “New Normal”. What exactly is “New Normal”, what of it will remain in the future and what will fade away? This rhetorical term was stated by the same politicians and news networks over and over. Their messages have been mixed and convoluted at best. Wear a mask, wear double masks, don’t wear a mask, eating inside vs eating outside, same household gathering, not gathering, singing in church ok, singing not ok, I could go on and on. One message remained constant – Wash your hands! And isn’t it rather disturbing that we actually need to have that sign in our public restrooms? Having been bombarded with all this conflicting information the last 3 years, these very same politicians now tell us that after certain dates we can forgo masks, distancing and capacity restrictions (provided you are vaccinated) because everything after these dates will be fine! REALLY? People have been scared to death.