{"id":12456,"date":"2020-06-22T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-covid-19-killed-the-office-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:33:00","slug":"how-covid-19-killed-the-office-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-covid-19-killed-the-office-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#How COVID-19 killed the office and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How COVID-19 killed the office and other commentary<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 21, 2020 |<\/span> 6:33pm |<\/span> Updated June 21, 2020 | 6:33pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n Culture critic: How COVID Killed the Office<\/strong><\/p>\n

The concept of telecommuting has been around since the 1970s, Rory Suth\u00aderland notes at Spectator USA,\u00a0yet it wasn\u2019t until \u201ca plague descended\u201d that it \u201cescaped the limbo between invention and implementation.\u201d As \u00adrecently as last year, only about 5 percent of British adults worked primarily from home. Fast-forward to the post-COVID age, and \u201chalf of employed adults are now working from home. And to almost everyone\u2019s surprise, it works.\u201d Stuffing thousands of workers into tall glass buildings now seems plain silly, and more than that, \u201clockdown has revealed that a large part of the busy-ness of business was driven by the need to signal commitment (presentee-ism), rather than the creation of value.\u201d Good riddance, then, to the \u201cworthless bustle\u201d and \u201cstressful commutes\u201d of office life!<\/p>\n

Foreign desk: Britain\u2019s False PC Virtue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oxford\u2019s \u201cglorious\u201d High Street, longtime resident Peter Hitchens writes at First Things, features a \u201crather ugly graven image of the businessman, politician and philanthropist Cecil Rhodes,\u201d a figure long associated with British imperialism \u2014 and, for that reason, now facing calls to have his statue removed. Rhodes is only one of many embronzed historic figures \u201cbeing investigated, to see if they in some way celebrate a wicked past,\u201d among them Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln at Westminster. No doubts these men \u201cdid things that we might now think of as bad.\u201d But removing their images from the public square serves only a \u201ccheap simulation of virtue, which comes from damning sins we have no mind to, while committing the ones we are inclined to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Urban beat: Atlanta\u2019s Prosecutorial Overkill<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local prosecutors recently indicted Atlanta ex-cop Garrett Rolfe on 11 charges, including felony murder, in the recent shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. Yet it\u2019s \u201chard to square those charges\u201d with the complex facts, argues The Wall Street Journal\u2019s editorial board. After failing a Breathalyzer, Brooks \u201cwrestled with Officer Rolfe and the other officer on the scene, grabbed that officer\u2019s taser and punched Officer Rolfe.\u201d Then he ran away; Rolfe gave chase, firing three rounds after Brooks \u201cfired [the stolen taser] backwards at Officer Rolfe.\u201d No, Brooks didn\u2019t deserve to die, but \u201cthe situation was moving fast, and Officer Rolfe may not have known\u201d the taser was empty. The danger: Prosecutorial overkill could mean \u201cofficers will take fewer risks in harm\u2019s way,\u201d knowing \u201cprosecutors will assume the worst about any altercation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iconoclast: All of Us App<\/a>ease China\u2019s Xi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the bombshells in former National Security Adviser John Bolton\u2019s new memoir, The Week\u2019s Matthew Walther reports, \u201cis what the president is alleged to have said about China: namely, that he is indifferent to the fate of as many as 1 million Uighurs\u00a0Muslims living in concentration camps there.\u201d If he indeed made it, the president\u2019s remark is gross. But far worse is that we Americans \u201care addicted to the endless supply of plastic junk and to the Chinese slave labor that makes it possible.\u201d And \u201cwe do not especially mind if our military hardware and pharmaceuticals and technology<\/a> infrastructure are sold to us by a totalitarian regime as wicked as the ones we spent the better part of the last century fighting.\u201d Thus, if Trump \u201ctold Xi Jinping to go ahead and do what he had to do,\u201d the sad truth is that the president \u201cwas speaking on our behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n

2020 watch: Don\u2019t Dismiss Trump\u2019s Chances<\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest polls show President Trump far trailing Joe Biden, but \u201cpolls are not an accurate gauge for predicting the November election outcome,\u201d warns Joshua Sandman at The Hill. \u201cAfter all, if all the polling data up to the day of the 2016 election was correct, Hillary Clinton would be president.\u201d Pollsters especially and consistently underestimate the president\u2019s populist message, which remains his \u201cenduring strength\u201d and has him solidly securing his base among the working class \u2014 a story \u201cgeneral<\/a> poll numbers do not\u201d fully account for. Mere Trump fatigue and cascading crises, moreover, aren\u2019t guaranteed to propel Biden across the Electoral College finish line. Bottom line: \u201cIt is an eternity until November. By then, today\u2019s bleak outlook for Trump could very well be a bleak outlook for Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2014 Compiled by Sohrab Ahmari<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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