What weird shit might happen?

[GreyishDays]

So far I’ve thought of:

Drug addicts that normally shop lift to get money, what will they do?

People living a double life, they’ll have to choose one family to isolate with.

Err that’s all I can think of, but surely there’s more?

Why won't there be heroin available?

The unexpected consequences of this will be fascinating to untangle won't they.

I said that nits must be worried!

Well Harvey Weinstein has Coronavirus

Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke ...

House is far from spotless here. I vacuumed yesterday yet the downstairs is already sporting a fine layer of dog hair. Bastards.

Re-nationalisation of the big ones, rail, airlines, they won’t survive unless nationalised.

Emmerdale and Corrie might stop. We might have to go back to the start

I was thinking the opposite to babies and thinking those with kids would be having a very dry spell for a while! And no wanking either!

I have now realised we won’t be alone till the schools resume.

Lots of babies in 9 months time
Coronavirus doesn't render contraception useless. This is not the 1950s where people don't have access to reliable birth control. So this doesn't make any sense.

everyone's houses will spotlessly clean

Not mine. I still have to work so I don't have so much free time that I will be so bored that I will start cleaning the house more than the basics.

We'll all emerge after 12 months about a stone heavier and with shit hair

Air quality might improve with less people commuting

Yes, air quality has been significantly better in China and Italy.

So people, if you end up doing more gardening do NOT start bonfires!

In the absence of work people will start to reconnect, especially parents with their children

People will rediscover the pleasure of cooking meals, bread, cakes rather than convenience food, get healthier

People will love their gardens, grow veg and finally enjoy what they've worked hard for

People will value local fruit and veg sellers, they will buy up boxes and buy into membership schemes some farms have, shop at local businesses - I'm seeing a lot of love like this in my rural part of the world. V heartening.

People will be too scared to travel abroad (cruise ships especially) fuelling a boom of staycations and having the effect of massively reducing carbon emissions

(yes, I'm a glass-half-full person )

McDonald's might close....... oh hang on a minute 😞

No-one will have botox or fillers!

If schools are closed for a prolonged period of time, I think we are going to end up with kids not being able to read and write

My house is already no where near spotlessly clean as my cleaner is now isolating. I don’t anticipate the addition of me home schooling 3 under 7s and the messiest Dh in the world working from home and wanting 3 cooked meals, coffees and biscuits etc will make my house any cleaner!

My 10 week old Labrador puppy will miss out on his socialisation window. I’m hoping that his living on an acre with a cat and three extremely noisy young children will be enough. No other dogs though.

A lot of shops on the high street will never reopen.

Negatives: Buying street drugs, abusive relationships, mental health, suicide and unfortunately alcohol addiction ..

Positives: Deeper friendships, unity in communities and neighbourhoods, appreciating close ones and family (if you get on with them ), more conversations and support.

Stopping to look at life to appreciate what we had and how to improve things if it's not so great (relationships, moving locations, possibly having to find a new job or learn something new).

In order to travel abroad, we may have to prove we have antibodies. The potential for state intrusion is enormous.

Parents will realise how difficult it is to be locked up all day with their own kids, so they will stop making more babies.

More people will grow out their pubes.

People will rediscover the pleasure of cooking meals, bread, cakes rather than convenience food, get healthier

I already cook and it's a lot more pleasurable and less stressful when you can be sure what ingredients you can get and when and that it won't potentially kill you going to the shop! (Meant light-heartedly but I don't think this is the ideal time to discover the joys of cooking for fun rather than survival!)

My house is a tip as have been in proper lockdown for 9 days now. What is the point of cleaning it within an inch of its life when you have DC's constantly at home, many people rely on cleaners, nobody is coming round?

No, I don't think houses will be cleaner.

I worry for the homeless. When you get properly locked down (which you will) where do they go? They can't pay the fines so I suppose they'll go to prison.

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People will learn to grow stuff. And maybe keep chickens. And possibly a goat. Though I don't think our garden is big enough for the last two.

People will learn how to preserve things again and how to cook from scratch and how to mend things and that those weird hippy green types (of which I'm one, most of the time) might have some okay ideas after all.

People will learn to sew and/or knit. (Though the person who insists on trying to teach me to do the last one has given up, for now. )

People will learn how to play Chess, and monopoly, and a musical instrument.

People will learn which song goes with which bird.

People will learn about reading aloud again. Or, alternatively, Alexa....

People will learn that having perfect hair and perfect nails and perfect make up really isn't that important after all. Fashionistas might have to get a real job. Or, alternatively, fashion will become an escape.

People might even learn to tell the difference between people who bullsh*t all the time (especially the ones in power) and those who don't. Alongside that there'll be an upsurge in spirituality, astrology, and the Tarot. Though I've been very, very, very entertained by just how many astrologers and so-called psychics didn't see this one coming. According to most of them, 2020 was going to be a wonderful year...

There'll be an upsurge in "naice" escapist fiction and TV series like When Calls The Heart and similar.

People will learn The Story of Eyam (if they don't know it already).