Amerithrax changed our way of communicating with government officials and with each other. Mail sent through the U.S. Post Office could not longer go directly to Congress, but had to be sent to a testing facility in Ohio before eventually being received by the recipient often weeks later, and looking a bit "fried." We learned to conduct government business online through email, and through interactive forms on websites.
Announcements of cancellations of mass gatherings like the NBA, and universities, has pushed us to use online platforms for communication. We have always had them, but now they are our ways of communicating while avoiding the risk of contracting a pandemic disease. Will we become comfortable with them and find they increase our efficiency, like email did? Will we begin to replace in person meetings at a much greater rate after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, leaving our lives changed forever, like Amerithrax?
Only time will tell, but if history is a lesson, our in person human contact may be changed forever.
Announcements of cancellations of mass gatherings like the NBA, and universities, has pushed us to use online platforms for communication. We have always had them, but now they are our ways of communicating while avoiding the risk of contracting a pandemic disease. Will we become comfortable with them and find they increase our efficiency, like email did? Will we begin to replace in person meetings at a much greater rate after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, leaving our lives changed forever, like Amerithrax?
Only time will tell, but if history is a lesson, our in person human contact may be changed forever.
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