Podcasts Culture Hotel Bar Sessions Back to "Normal"

Back to "Normal"

Published: Feb. 2, 2024, 11 a.m.

The HBS hosts discuss post-COVID demands to get "back to normal."

In 2020 the NCAA canceled its basketball tournaments for the year. Over the next several months, mitigation measures became more widespread and strict. In some places more quickly than others, we all eventually \u201creturned to normal.\u201d Did we though? In some ways, normalcy seems to be an irresistible pull. But is \u201cnormalcy\u201d not the same as the status quo? And shouldn\u2019t we be critical of both? We can look at other contexts in which we either have found a normalcy or feel the need to get back to normal: Climate change (who is doing anything about it?), anti-democratic presidents (well, that\u2019s just the new normal!), xenophobia is now a baseline in the U.S., the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, the list can go on and on.\xa0

It is the "new" normal? And what do we do about the intransigence of normality?

Full episode notes available at this link:
https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-124-back-to-normal


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