To think that people will appreciate the things we took for granted once this is over?

[DuaneAgain]

Just that really.

A trip to the cinema. A couple of pints followed by a curry or a nice pub lunch. Being able to actually train properly in a gym again and use the sauna etc.

@Aebj

I don't want to put my location, but no, I'm not in Aus. Wouldn't be sat here in a gazillion layers of clothing if I was 😁

Sorry that's a grin, not an angry face!

I don't think so. Looking at the acreage of crops ruined on the farms where people have traipsed off path, my neighbours hedge that people decimated to pick his bluebells, the hundreds of coffee cups abandoned on the way back home from the cafe/pub doing takeaway etc, no I don't think attitudes will change.

I think initially yes but after a few months everyone will take it all for granted again.

I think some people will be traumatised/scared fir life, some people will appreciate every little thing, but the vast majority will go back to taking stuff for granted and some of us will be a mix.

I think the less scared you've been the easier it will be to go back to taking things for granted.

I think in the early post lockdown days people will appreciate simple things, but that won’t last very long and everyone will be booking holidays abroad and organising big parties very quickly.

I think, for most people, the status quo will reassert itself pretty quickly. It’s a nice thought that the pandemic would make people more appreciative but in practice I don’t think that’s going to happen.

I'd like to think so, but judging by what happened in the summer when hospitality opened its doors on July 4th, I think it'll be pretty short lived tbh.
The first two weeks were brilliant, everyone so grateful to be out, polite, careful, doing the things we asked of them, that we had been told to implement to be 'covid safe' whatever the hell that is anyway really kind to us and each other.
August was quite honestly the worst month in hospitality I've ever experienced, and I worked behind the bar on Millennium eve! People were awful, I have never seen a team of people, some of the strongest people I know so close to breaking point because of the abuse we were getting. More than one of us was threatened, several pushed, one punched.
I have left hospitality now, as have quite a few I know across the country, and mainly because of the way we were treated. I couldn't have done that again, it damn near broke me.
So I would say there'll be a cautious and thankful couple of weeks and then if it's anything like last summer, in hospitality at least, it'll be worse than before.

I don't think last summer felt at all normal

I hated it more than lockdown. At least at home I don't have to wear a mask. I went out twice to a pub/restaurant- the tracking app had just been launched so it was really clumsy at the time to sign in.

The staff didn't want to be there and were standing back - the whole thing was just uncomfortable and not worth it

For me it's lockdown or full life please - any half assed shit just makes me feel worse