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Life after the lockdown: 8 predictions for the new normal
You might have seen a great article about how there is going to be a new normal after the lockdown ends.
People, businesses, and communities will be stumbling into a new reality after this lockdown, no matter how much everyone might try to convince you that everything is the same.
What might this look like?
Here are 8 predictions in 8 different domains for what it might look like.
1. New services: The rise of the drive-thru
One of the things that have been a challenge through this time has been tackling the problem of waiting.
Given that some Emergency Rooms had an average waiting time of over one hour in 2016, several solutions have been implemented with COVID-19 to prevent mass infections in waiting rooms.
One of the most popular ones was the idea of drive-thru testing. This was a solution implemented first in South Korea and then picked up in certain parts of the US very well.
Because the US has a very strong car culture, as well as the generally accepted consensus of cars being somewhat safe places to be (as it limits exposure to COVID-19), we have also seen drive-thrus…
