Is this the end of the world as we know it?

[SubordinateThatClause]

Just that really. Not trying to be to hyped and dramatic about life. How far reaching do you think the consequences of this thing are going to be - economically, socially, politically? Will life ever get back to how it has been?

Let's face it. It's not going to just go away is it? Might just save the planet if the pollution reduction over China is anything to go by though.

[Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies]

I think this is an example of that mumsnet classic response...

No. Which is of course a full sentence,

[Mayaaaaa]

There will be fallout.

But in my personal world, our directors are using it as a test case to see if working from works in our company. It will make a massive difference to lots of us.

So there may be some positives that come out of it, on individual levels, I believe you always have to look for the good.

[KickingItSince1966]

Oh my days.

[LynnSchmob]

No. 🤦‍♀️

[backaftera2yearbreak]

I say this kindly.

Get a fucking grip 🙄

[Namechangexyz1]

Christ

The plague didn't wipe out humanity in the middle ages and back then we did not know that washing hands prevented disease transmission.

I despair of some people

[welshpolarbear]

"Not trying to be dramatic" but using a heading of, "is this the end of the world as we know it" 😂

[Iminaglasscaseofemotion]

Oh for God sake 🙄.

[eeeyoresmiles]

I feel fine...

[user14366425683113]

The plague didn't wipe out humanity in the middle ages

No, but it did result in social change.

[NemophilistRebel]

No

I’m worried for sure because of the Unknown’s but history repeats itself time and again and what it’s taught us is that humans are adaptable and resilient and viruses of all sorts are worse in winter and will calm down in summer

[bengalcat]

No . Today it’s coronavirus - ‘ tomorrow ‘ it will be another microorganism .

[aWeaponCalledtheWord]

yes, but i feel fine 🎵 🎶🎶

[TheMemoryLingers]

I think people are taking a sprint approach - stockpiling, isolating themselves - when the reality will be a marathon. This will play out over months.

[CokeEnStock]

Like everything that has gone before we will get through it. Hope it has a wake up effect that a decent well staffed heath service is SO necessary.

[eeeyoresmiles]

Seriously... I don't know. Did the war end the world "as people knew it"? I think it did, in some ways, even though people went back to normal life afterwards. This should be shorter, but I think 'after' might still feel quite different to 'before', even if superficially some things might not have changed much by then. We'll have a had a short intense period of focusing on a common external enemy (the virus) with greater or lesser success and a lot of casualties. Some behaviour habits to stop infection might stick. Some new working habits might stick. It's looking like it will be the first significantly scary thing to have happened on the ground here in this country since WWII - generations have got used to living with no major threat, so that's quite a change. I've read that people really didn't talk much about the Spanish Flu after it happened, though, so perhaps it might just not get talked about much, but still have changed us all a bit. Once the scary stuff has gone, it will be interesting to see what changes.

[DamselInTheStress]

I think a lot will change for a long time, just like it did with the financial crisis. It will eventually settle down again though. I agree with a pp that it’s probably going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

[eeeyoresmiles]

Gonna be stick in my head for the rest of the evening.

And mine... thanks OP!

[Stripeyfrog]

Out of interest what do you think would be a dramatic or hyped up title for a post...?

I think maybe there will be significant changes but possibly not all bad.

[TheMemoryLingers]

I keep thinking of that Churchill quote. People think we are at the beginning of the end, but I don't think we've even reached the end of the beginning.

[PicsInRed]

It's just a good robust SHTF, not TEOTWAWKI.

Helpful? 😉😷

[Floooy174]

150,000 people die every day. Over 1500 a day commit suicide.

The majority of the people in the 150,000 have just reached old age and something finishes them off. Heart failure, Flu, whatever.

This illness has killed 4000 in a month or more. Most of which are also in the old age category. This is another to the list of things that will bring life to and end for some people.

I think it will be over and done with in 6 months or so and it may kill maybe 100,000 people. Less than the number that die every day now. On a planet where we have over 7.5bn people, I don’t think much will change.

The biggest effect will be on the economy and the knock on effect will still be impacting people’s lives in 2/3 years as it did in 2008.