The New Normal Will NOT be the Old Normal
2 min readApr 11, 2020
Image if you would, enjoying an idle Tuesday in Pompeii, one fall day in AD 79. Suddenly Rome’s “Las Vegas” is turned literally to dust in the space of 48 hours, buried under 30 feet of volcanic ash, courtesy of the eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius. While the vast majority of the population escaped, life was never the same, the entire city was abandoned and most had to start over with nothing.