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Bingo Will Be Back
COVID-19 can’t change human nature. Social life will survive.
“Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.” — William Saroyan
Bingo is Cancelled
Bingo, that game of chance long adored by retirees and the over-something set, isn’t taking place during the COVID-19 outbreak, amid the almost complete shut-down of daily life that has accompanied it.
Community centers and bingo halls are dark, as are major sporting events, concerts, malls, cruise ships, workplaces, and a great many other facets formerly ubiquitous to everyday American life.
Some may recover, in time. Some might be gone forever.
A few of the things we might not be seeing again are family-style buffet restaurants, grocery store salad bars, and self-service condiments at restaurants. Alas, no more free samples at the super-market. Pot-lucks might be viewed with a bit more skepticism in future, too.
After COVID-19, shoppers might be a bit more disinclined to try communal testers, and any other product samples left out for a great many people to touch. And touch.
Cruise ships, those great floating, pollution-strewing cesspools of food borne…