Need help finding essay/article. Early last year "they'll tell you nothing changed" from

[underpants]

something like The Atlantic or Esquire

The gist of the piece was that when then pandemic is “over” the commercial powers that be will tell you that nothing changed. Nothing really happened. Return to life as you knew it. Consume - consumerism- go back to your selfish the world revolves around you ways - etc.

It was March to maybe May 2020. I’ve google searched everything I can think of and looked through my DU bookmarks. I’m having no luck.

[Laelth]

1. Worthy search. k&r for visibility. n/t

-Laelth

[taxi]

2. Perhaps this?

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/02/pandemic-daily-life-normal-summer-fall/618108/

More likely this though
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/opinion/covid-reopening-responsibility.html

[underpants]

10. Thanks.

The article I’m looking for was from about a year ago. I thought for sure I’d bookmarked it or saved it.

[taxi]

11. I cleaned my phone of that junk today. :)

[Celerity]

3. I see the opposite. Almost every article, even early on, said there will be large, likely

permanent changes.

An example from exactly one year and one day ago:

Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.

A crisis on this scale can reorder society in dramatic ways, for better or worse. Here are 34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2020/03/19/coronavirus-effect-economy-life-society-analysis-covid-135579

For many Americans right now, the scale of the coronavirus crisis calls to mind 9/11 or the 2008 financial crisis—events that reshaped society in lasting ways, from how we travel and buy homes, to the level of security and surveillance we’re accustomed to, and even to the language we use.

Politico Magazine surveyed more than 30 smart, macro thinkers this week, and they have some news for you: Buckle in. This could be bigger.

A global, novel virus that keeps us contained in our homes—maybe for months—is already reorienting our relationship to government, to the outside world, even to each other. Some changes these experts expect to see in the coming months or years might feel unfamiliar or unsettling: Will nations stay closed? Will touch become taboo? What will become of restaurants?

But crisis moments also present opportunity: more sophisticated and flexible use of technology, less polarization, a revived appreciation for the outdoors and life’s other simple pleasures. No one knows exactly what will come, but here is our best stab at a guide to the unknown ways that society—government, healthcare, the economy, our lifestyles and more—will change.

snip

[underpants]

5. Not it but that is really remarkable. Telemedicine, virtual Congress, voting, student debt

Excellent reads (I just scanned through them) thanks.

[Celerity]

6. Yw, good luck in your quest

[sanatanadharma]

4. An article, if not the article

From May 13th, 2020

https://theconversation.com/returning-to-normal-post-coronavirus-would-be-inhumane-136558

Last sentence, "That’s why the lessons learned during the pandemic must be used to reconsider and re-imagine social solidarity, one that’s hinged on education, democracy and social equality. Returning to “normal” is no longer a viable option."

[Hugin]

7. I sure see much of that 'as you were' stuff in the mass media right now...

I guess it's an evolution of the 'open-er-up' chorus.

They are needing a justification for the explosion of the financials with main street so far behind. It's going to take a couple of new deals and an average immunity in every individual of some percentage before we can even claim to be 'over' this calamity.

But, we aren't ever going to be the same and I really hope we don't go there. It is unsustainable.

[underpants]

8. "Back to normal" that just hit me reading your post

Back to normal is a nice way of saying what you posted. We hear it and it sounds great but it also includes learning absolutely nothing from this.

Meant as a joke I still harken back to the meme I saw about a year ago.

[Hugin]

9. Profound truths are often ebbeded in the simpliest of jokes. n/t