Will things go back to normal faster than anticipated?

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I personally believe there will come a point, sooner rather than later, where people will want their normal back. I guess as we are seeing that already with how busy places are.

My mum believes the opposite, that the effects of this on the public will hang around for months. She believes queuing outside shops will be the norm now as will face masks and gloves.

What’s your opinion?

I have said on other threads I beyond fucked off with NS and her political games.

Whoopy do. Some of us agree with her that it was right to wait.

Three weeks ago the number of deaths had only just started to drop. Hopefully the very slightly stricter measures will stand us in good stead to come out of this intact.

Why are you pretending I said something I didn't?
Look at your post and then look at mine. Now please expand on your statement.

Cambridge University is only doing lectures online. Tutorials and other small group teaching will be face to face.

The economy won't but peoples behaviour will, very quickly.

@Worriedaboutthefuture1

Look at your post and then look at mine. Now please expand on your statement.

I did. You sound irrational.

so you don’t view children missing out on their education as vulnerable?

Didn't say that.

How about abused children being locked up with their abusers day after day with no one to notice or care?

Didn't say anything about them either.

What about University students who can’t learn online - the future doctors, nurses and scientists to name a few?

Only reporting the facts without commentary.

Funny you calling out the selfish few...

I still do. And you are still saying I said something I didn't. You sound hysterical in your desperation to force "normal" on a world that will not be normal for a long time.

@DomDoesWotHeWants you are barking on about The vulnerable need to be protected from the selfish actions of the few. and yet you can’t see how children and the lasting damage this is already having on their education and mental health is making them increasingly vulnerable?
Your ridiculous comparison of Cambridge University has already been debunked by many and yet you are still bleating on. You seem to be the only one who desperate to have other join in with your projection of misery and despair. I know the type of person I’d rather be.

Your ridiculous comparison of Cambridge University has already been debunked by many and yet you are still bleating on.

I'll pass that on to my friend who works there. It will come as a surprise to him. Or maybe he knows better than you. It has yet to be decided exactly what will happen but there will be no lectures that aren't online.

I'm being realistic, understanding how it is going to be and learning to live with it. Hoping to make the best of it. The Pollyanna approach is ridiculous in adults. It's cruel to raise hopes and then have them dashed.

Schools will be part time for quite some time. I think it's awful but it's how it is. I hope that online resources will have improved by September and that there are proper plans laid down. Also plans for those children who are medically vulnerable and cannot go into school. They matter every bit as much.

I'm glad that gardens will be open soon and beaches free to visit. A slow emergence can only be a good thing. But we won't be normal for a very long time.

Yes I think things will go back very quickly once we start.

People tend to have poor memories when it comes to things like this so as soon as measures get removed it will snowball.

I doubt many of us that are low risk want to stay at home and never socialise again and if you go out and nothing bad happens, which will be the case for the majority of people, then I think most people will carry on as before.

@DomDoesWotHeWants I also work in HE and at the moment Cambridge is very much an anomaly with how they are planning on delivering their teaching into 2021. Most other Universities are planning for students returning in Sept/October; even going so far as to install temperature scanners for staff and students. As far as I know Cambridge are also only going to deliver large lectures online; seminars, workshops and labs will remain open and functioning.
Anyway I’m going to leave our conversation now as it is obviously clear we will not agree on this issue.

*If you saw a sheep ( insert any creature ) jump off a cliff , would you follow?

No, because I'm intelligent enough to risk assess. The likelihood of me being harmed by jumping off a cliff is high, and the benefit to me is zero. The likelihood of me being harmed by sitting in my mums garden for a few hours is tiny and the benefit to me is high.