Tash's issue is that he is like the paranoid basement dwellers. they fear everything. so they try their best to tell everyone else the world is fake, the world is flat the world is a matrix just to hide their fear of the world.
tash and other paranoid people think if they keep repeating 'its al fake', then maybe they will one day beleive it themselves.
what they should realise is that they are basement dwellers with no social lives anyway. so their risk is low. so they should just continue being anti-social and live their basement lives like usual and all will be fine with their lives.
its like terrorism. if it aint happening on your street with no terrorists knocking on your door, then just dont give a crap about terrorism happening in other neighbourhoods if its not affecting your home.
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trying to say terrorism/school shooting is fake is just insanity.. stick with the realisation that if you dont leave your basement you dont have to fear it. EG school shootings. if you dont attend school and have no kids then you dont have to fear school shootings
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now back tot he topic
i personally travelled the world alot but i accepted my risks and decided to stick around my home country.
i still go to the store. i just mask up and respect my personal space.. not really much of an effort...
...i never went around licking random peoples faces so ill just continue walking around and not licking random peoples faces.
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as for businesses
yes they should diversify. many businesses like pubs/bars just closed with the hopes of just opening up as usual after a couple months. this was bad decision but due to government trying too hard to keep the idea alive that in just a couple months after first wave things will be normal. couple months after second wave things will be normal.
what should have happened is to advice bars/pubs to diversify early on to delivery or take-away services.
diversify into offering groceries in bars/pubs not within in the inner city area's to give better access to food/essentials in the 'food desert' area's
in the UK there has been a big shift to online shopping and many brands of clothing stores have made that shift. this has caused alot of unemployment and closing of retail outlets on highstreets. but they adapted to the new scenario we are in.
i can still see a few office based businesses wondering if they should convert to remote working or office working. wondering if they should:
renew their office leases to work like normal(someday)
hire temporary offices for just monthly meet-ups to stagger how many teams meet face to face
expand their lease to offer more space to spread staff out
EG(hire conference room) instead of 20 offices of 20 people in a building. they just hire a conference room to fit 60. and ask 20 different people to turn up per business day, spaced out with a couple empty chairs between them. so that they get atleast 1 face to face day per month. and the rest of the month they work from home
alot of people think that by easter everything will go back to normal. but with the amount of idiots that are anti-vaxxing, to cause the virus to still be prevalent after easter.. i dont see how things will go back to complete normal. governments are giving hints of no normalisation in summer by saying things like school exams wont take place and results will be based on the whole year results of quizes/homework and classwork kids do from home