After years of covid, humans had to evolve in order to survive. A first drastic step was cities cutting themselves off, with sheriffs stopping cars at the only entrance into town and deciding who can enter, turning most people away. Some regions may have even built walls, to prevent persons who may have viruses from entering their area. Corporations find that the best way to avoid interruption and shutdown was to turn work sites into employment hubs, sustainable areas where people can live and work in the same place and always interact with the same persons, thus containing spread of viruses. You'd have to apply for visas between cities for in person visits.
However,
humans may soon learn they prefer to travel by elaborately expanded versions of VR on Google Maps and Zoom that soon make physical trips a hassle compared to what you can see on your screen. Even though local school buildings have disappeared, the population of USA could be remarkably smarter than it was before covid, as children can now go from first grade through any college in the world at their own pace using broadband connections. So geniuses are discovered and able to develop from early ages. Each community soon has its own identity- music style colors. Gone is the monochrome of interstate turnoff/strip mall sameness. Now in post covid USA, when you do travel physically or digitally, you notice the uniqueness of each region, one of many unexpected positive new things that grew from a long-term killer pandemic changing the way humans live on the planet. Also, there's almost no need to drive a car, so the atmosphere of Earth is now clean and the climate is calming down.
by Kay Ebeling
PS
Jokes about oldsters would almost always picture them holding suitcases.
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