Quote Originally Posted by PwrdOn View Post
I mean, just the entire premise to this thread is absurd. Things will go back to normal once the virus is eradicated, full stop. If, as it looks increasingly likely now, that it will just be a recurring feature that will never completely go away, then life can never go back to the way it was before the pandemic. Who cares whether or not you can go to the movies or baseball games when people are dying? It's not even as if these public gatherings we yearn for are actually accomplishing anything meaningful, people are just yearning for the freedom to consume again, and come on that's pathetic.
Well, to be the flip side to this one-sided view... people who WORK in those industries care. They care a great deal. For example: theatre. Most of my friends are in theatre. Most of them trained for years, and paid their dues and were just getting somewhere good, and now they can't work. They can't do what they trained their whole life to do, and it's not pathetic that they ache to return to their life and their dreams. Financially most actors can't just 'wait out the storm'. Unlike footballers and sports stars who earn huge money, most actors don't make above minimum wage. They have no savings. They have no career. Let's not call them pathetic to add salt to the wound.