A year from now...

[Lemonmaid]

How do you think things will be a year from now? Will schools be fully back? Offices reopened? International travel up and running again? Social distancing a distant memory? Things 99% back to how they were?

What will we have learnt from 2020?

Or will there be mass poverty in the UK? Food shortages?

Or will another pandemic be upon us?

Genuine questions, not trying to goad or cause an argument.

I have no idea! I can't picture how things will be. In my ideal world, everything would be back to how it was pre lockdown though.

I think we will be coming out the other side but nothing will be a distant memory and we’ll probably still be processing the horrors of what we haven’t yet dealt with.

I would hope schools will be looking at being a new norm, but with everyone back learning, by September next year. Many jobs will probably continue with wfh where possible and GP appointments will also be over the phone if feasible.

No idea. I don't really know how things will be a month from now, never mind a year. A year ago the way things are now and have been over the past few months would have been unimaginable, so I could not begin to imagine a year from now. I was looking at booking annual leave for next summer, because you have to book a year in advance to get school holidays off at my work, but no one can say for definite whether we will be able to go on holiday next year. Similarly, I work a job with shifts that are different every week, and, if I want to request a specific day off in September like for the start of the school term, I need to do it in the next few days, but no one knows whether children will go back to school in any meaningful way (more than the one day a week that is available to eligible year groups at my children's school now). The uncertainty is very difficult.

We’ll be up to our ears dealing with the fall out from a no deal brexit. Only 21 days left for the UK government to request an extension to the transition period.

The 50% of people who still have jobs will be paying an 80% basic rate of tax to fund the cost. The 50% of people who don't, will be living on the streets having exhausted their savings and run out of money.