KIMT talks to a political analyst about what life might look like after the pandemic.
Tuesday: the end of the pandemic might be closer than we realize ?
"* with the moderna vaccine in particular showing amazing effectiveness and stability.
With nearly a year of quarantines and restrictions ?*- what will life finally look like when the pandemic is history?
Kimt news 3's nick kruszalnicki is looking into the future.
He joins us live from mason city.
Nick?
George and katie ?
"* we've all been learning how to do things differently over the past 8 months or so.
Whether it's been working from home or avoiding large crowds.
I spoke with economics instructor rayce hardy about how the world will be different once covid?
"*19 is defeated.
"just the freedom of roaming through a store or going to a restaurant without the mask.
Things like that.
I miss that."
Jamie hennessey ?
"* lik all of us ?
"* is looking forwad to life getting back to the way things were.
"i hope that everything will start to get back to normal.
For a while this summer it felt like everything was going back to normal a little bit.
Until now."
But what will normal look like once the pandemic is over?
I posed the question to rayce hardy, economics instructor and political analyst.
He's concerned about small businesses surviving and big business growing even bigger.
"the great big huge s&p 500 companies, many of them are doing as well as they've ever done.
You take home depot, you take amazon as examples.
They're having record revenue."
Working from home changes everything, hardy says ?
"* with many companies deciding they don't need to mantain acres of office space.
It's a ripple effect ?
"* trickling down to small businesses.
"that real estate owner won't get that lease filled from that company.
Those people won't be downtown to go out for coffee, maybe they would go out together as a group of 5 or 6 workers, they won't be doing that."
Hardy also sees our kids forever impacted by the pandemic ?
"* they may be more independent, but less socially savvy.
"it's just a whole different mentality and some of that is good.
You get your own time, but some of it hardy also tells me ?
"* many of those put out of work by the pandemic will have to retrain for new lines of work.
He says big business needs to step up and create job training programs for the displaced workers.
Live in mason city, nick kruszalnicki kimt news 3.
Thanks nick.
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