Hyper-normalization is a phrase coined by the UK documentarist Adam Curtis, and it describes a state where the prevailing establishment narrative is so absurd and demonstrably false that only the most brainwashed True Believers can cling to it. Only the most corrupt and self-seeking policy makers will attempt to perpetuate it. Those who do espouse it are typically the greatest beneficiaries of the dysfunctional zeitgeist. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/its-2022-and-pandemic-over
The author is an optimist. He thinks the current Covid nightmare ends soon. He is sadly mistaken. There is no offramp from Technological Tyranny.
France bans popcorn, snacks in movie theaters due to COVID
There will be no popcorn movies in France for a while – at least not in theaters – due to a rapid surge in the Omicron variant.
Beginning Monday, the country will put a three-week halt on the consumption of the popular snack in cinemas in a ban that will apply to all eating and drinking.
The measures will apply to theaters, sports venues and public transportation.
Cinema owners, who hoped to lure back people who have been watching movies at home during the pandemic, will take a hit by the closed concession stands.
Movie theaters in France sold 96 million tickets in the eight months they have been reopened in 2021, a jump of 47 percent compared to last year — but ticket sales are still down 55 percent compared to 2019, according to the National Center for Film and Moving Images.
Benoit Ciné Distribution, which supplies the snacks to almost three-quarters of France’s cinemas, had expected good sales with “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Matrix Resurrections” drawing crowds.
“It’s like being told to apply the emergency brake to the high-speed train,” Vincent Meyer, a director at Benoit, told The Associated Press.