Page 8 - NEWNORMAL_ANIMATED

NEW NORMAL
NEW NORMAL

INTRODUCTION:

RAISE A CHEERS WITH US!

It‘s March, April, May 2021. traveling whatsoever, though the masks will

Cast your mind back to the end of 2019. be a stable fixture. Night-time curfews and in

The Christmas shopping is finished. You‘re some places daytime restriction with be poli-
gathered around the fire with your family, ced only letting you out to walk your dog.

looking forward to midnight. Tomorrow the You‘d soon switch such crazy notions off
whole family will head to granny and grandads your screen and perhaps even write a com-
for her acclaimed roast sirloin made in her fa- plaint to the TV station querying their rationa-
mous big pot. When you wake up the day after le for showing such utter gibberish!

tomorrow, you‘ll set off to the slopes of your Yet now, this is reality.
favorite ski area while your brother treks to And as time goes by, it looks like the pro-
a beach in the Bahamas or Yucatán. blem won‘t be going away any time soon, not
But then a fortune teller comes on the telly next month, this year, or even this time next
and starts predicting that in three months year. ProWein 2020 never came to pass, Pro-
from now, the kids will stop going to school Wein 2021 has been cancelled, there‘ll be no
and will have to learn on computers, your job fairs, expositions, or very few competitions.
will ask you to stay home… and your spouse. The road ahead is paved with further bans and
You‘ll all have to walk around wearing restrictions along with more coronavirus and
masks, all but the essential shops, pharma- all the damage that incurs. The world has quite
cies and stores selling healthcare products possibly changed more than we are willing to
will close, you won‘t be able to visit grannies admit right now and with it we‘re left with no
and grandads at their home or in hospitals choice but to rethink our business.
and care homes for six months, plus there‘ll We will always remember the empty cities,
be no theatre, cinema, football or hockey ga- the Pope who gave mass in a deserted St. Pe-
mes, and there‘ll be no work Holiday parties, ter‘s Square, the silence in the streets broken
concerts, or even religious services. There‘ll only by the sound of ambulances.
be no family visits, trips to the mountains, or Wine used to be served mainly in restaurants

8