{"id":38376,"date":"2023-04-22T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=38376"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:48:10","slug":"did-the-pandemic-shut-down-change-the-way-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/did-the-pandemic-shut-down-change-the-way-we-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Pandemic Shut-Down Change the Way We Live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31387\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/04\/22\/did-the-pandemic-shut-down-change-the-way-we-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2023\/04\/22\/did-the-pandemic-shut-down-change-the-way-we-live\/ noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31387 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PORTER-Rep.-Katie-2.webp\" alt=\"did the pandemic shut-down change the way we live Rep.-Katie-Porter\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I admired Rep. Katie Porter&#8217;s fluffy do in 2020. Would the pandemic shut-down change the way we live &#8212; and wear our hair &#8212; I wondered. <em>Katie Porter photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Way back in August, 2020, in the deepest depths of the pandemic lock-down, I ventured some predictions about what life might be like in the After Time.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my predictions were spot on. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sharp lines between home life and work life that were drawn in the Before Times would be blurred in the After Time.<\/li>\n<li>Clothes would be looser and comfier.<\/li>\n<li>People&#8217;s dogs, children and houseplants would continue to show up at work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least one of my predictions did not hold up, however:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Given that barber shops and hair salons were closed for the duration, and people&#8217;s hair was getting long and wild, I was sure that the trend would continue and hair would be fluffier and looser in the After Times. I thought people like Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Amy Klobuchar would follow Rep. Katie Porter&#8217;s example and let their hair go fluffy. They didn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Same goes for me. As soon as my hairdresser opened up shop, I donned a mask and got my wild locks tamed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Stephen Colbert Before and After<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Late Show host Stephen Colbert let his hair go fluffy while broadcasting his show from home. Now he wears his hair trimmed again, but he has not gone back to his Before Times habit of shaking hands with everybody in the first row of his audience. They clap. <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2022\/04\/16\/pete-holmes-stephen-colbert-and-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colbert<\/a> smiles. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>And so, travel with me back in time to the bad old days of 2020, when opening the door for the grocery delivery person involved putting on a mask and leaving his tip on the porch under a rock.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>To refresh your memory of those days, here&#8217;s a link to one of the Sheltering at Home stories I posted back then.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/08\/16\/is-fluffy-the-new-black\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheltering at Home Week 23. Is Fluffy the New Black?<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>By Barbara Falconer Newhall, August 16, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31510\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/08\/16\/is-fluffy-the-new-black\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2020\/08\/16\/is-fluffy-the-new-black\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31510 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/colbert-6-resize.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#8217;s Stephen Colbert in our living room, smiling out from our TV while broadcasting from his home. Like just about everybody, celebrity or no, Colbert let his hair go fluffy during the months of isolation. And I had to wonder, would the pandemic shut-down change the way we live? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/08\/16\/is-fluffy-the-new-black\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/04\/22\/did-the-pandemic-shut-down-change-the-way-we-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2023\/04\/22\/did-the-pandemic-shut-down-change-the-way-we-live\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31510 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/colbert-6-resize.jpg\" alt=\"did the pandemic shut-down change the way we live?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Travel with me back in time to the bad old days of 2020 to consider &#8212; did the pandemic shut-down change the way we live?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/04\/22\/did-the-pandemic-shut-down-change-the-way-we-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[2318,34,2321,2224,2443,2586],"class_list":["post-38376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-sheltering-at-home-chronicles","tag-amy-klobuchar","tag-dont-miss","tag-katie-porter","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-pandemic-hair","tag-stephen-colbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49043,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38376\/revisions\/49043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}