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I don’t know that this will help but on Monday all my projects disappeared. My agency made a job for billing COVID-related downtime. I figured I’d get laid off Friday. Now I have three COVID-related briefs. Companies are going to have to respond. We will be needed.
As much as we’re feeling the urge to catastrophize this right now, this will pass. The upside, if we’re able to focus on it, is that this health crisis isn’t due to an underlying weakness in the business world (though we can certainly debate the weakness of the monetary system, central banks and the bubble they’ve created). So when this DOES pass, businesses will need to stimulate a renewed interest in spending on their products and services. Humans are social creatures and we’ll all crave a return to a feeling of normalcy. All of this will jumpstart the need to get back to work and get busy living again. As CD1 said, this could create an influx of work, hopefully for everyone and not just in the advertising industry. If I can find faith in the good aspects of humanity, I believe the “new normal” will be less about the superficial, low-value, hustle harder for less workaholism that’s defined our views of what’s normal. Because this is a wake up call. At least that’s my hope.
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Not that I’m qualified to answer. But maybe once healthcare capacity bar is raised high enough, and treatments available, the new normal is just getting on with life and taking precautions. The economy will adjust and new behaviours adopted. The lockdown phase is to allow treatment capacity to ramp up.
I felt this way in 2008 and it eventually got so much better. It took patience and acceptance of the situation and trust that life would change for the better. Nothing in life is permanent.