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?

Will more people want to train to be teachers, carers and medical professionals?
After this I’d encourage my DC to AVOID those jobs. They’re on the front line risking their lives for ungrateful selfish people. Previously I’d thought my DS would make a good doctor but now I’m definitely talking him out of it because it’s become a profession where your life is at risk.

I do worry that numerous chickens will be dumped when this is all over. People who’ve bought them for their back gardens will want rid. And I’ll spend the rest of my life making sure my cupboards are packed full of tins. I’m not convinced I’ll ever feel safe touching people again either. Hopefully hand shaking is out of fashion for good. I’ll still be washing my hands when I’m 90.

Slimming clubs shut weight will pile on.

I think there'll be chancers looting the closed up shops quite soon. If high streets are deserted but the stores are full of stuff, it's inevitable someone will try.

On a positive note if it goes on for a long time countries that are usually hostile to each other pulling together resources, aid and support as we all realise we get ill, suffer and become poorer

I really really hope that happens.

When people talk about refugees fleeing war zones, we only have to look at our reaction - people panic buying, camper vans to Scotland.

The world spends $1.8 TRILLION on defense.
The USA spends $650 BILLION on defense.

A nuclear weapon or an aircraft carrier doesn't help against a virus.

Medical care, science. public health, education, food all do.

It won't happen though. It's such a mindset.

@ellanwood, indeed. Johnson will need his (much depleted) Police and military to maintain law and order.

I’m hoping the world realises that taking action can actually make a difference where the environment is concerned, and that the attitude of “nothing I can do will make a difference” will change.

I hope people will realise that we don’t need 24/7 access to shops and restaurants/takeaways/bars and things just generally stay slowed down a bit.

I hope it brings families together and makes people appreciate time spent with their children.

I’m worried about the children whose only meal of the day is a free school dinner, and those for whom school is an escape from home life.

I’m worried for victims of domestic abuse as they won’t have much of an escape.

I’m worried for the homeless as I fear they’re going to be forgotten about.

This is a speech from Independence Day that could almost be made now.

Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the 4th of July and you will once again be fighting for our freedom not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution but from annihilation.

We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should we win today the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American President holiday but is the day when the world declared in one voice,

“We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day

I agree chancers will try to loot stores like electronic ones once streets are deserted. I know though where I live the police picked up on twitter criminals talking to each other about doing this in the town I live, when the major looting took place in London a few years ago. They quickly arrested who was responsible, they were well known to the police.
If this is quickly nipped in the bud, it won't become a major issue. So I hope response to this is planned better than to everything else about this virus.

We might actually do something about food security. There have been warnings around this for years which have been ignored. Or we might not.

I really hope that some of the dissulisioned youth that base their entire self worth on material possessions and looks start to reword their thinking, also I hope that they start to appreciate stepping away from a device and spending time with people having been cut off for so long.

My colleagues and I are already saying that we hope that companies become even more flexible on agile working practices and allow more staff to work from home more regularly.

Families are spending a lot more time outside. I live in a fairly remote area so haven't seen any crazy crowds but driving through the town earlier from my very remote walk there were people and families out walking everywhere to relieve t he cabin fever.

Ana I also wondered what the hell will happen to the underground drug supply in a lockdown scenario. Surely dealers will adopt prison strategies ie learning how to move drugs around in the same way they get them into jail

alloutoffucks but the global spread would be reduced or slowed (if travel is reduced/restricted). Travel has increased tenfold since SARS apparently. It probably wouldn't be a stretch to think that the speed of any spread has also increased tenfold too.

But then, everyone has an excuse/reason to travel abroad, even those apparently concerned about the environment. Cheap flights, cheap accommodation, festivals, stag do's, hen do's, girls trip, sports events, lads weekender, retirement sightseeing, business trips (both necessary and dressed up as necessary), weddings abroad, skiing trips, sunbathing trips, city breaks, team building trips and the almost obligatory holiday abroad... people have been criss-crossing the globe all the time for not much real reason, purpose or justification except personal gratification.

Only read the first page so apologies if this already came up - but I think smoking rates will go up as people will be stressed.

This thread is fascinating, in fact the whole situation is terrifying and fascinating in equal measures.

I think there will be a complete change in aspirations for young people.

I have two DDs in their twenties and they're totally stuffed career wise now. One was told she's on unpaid leave as of last Monday. Four years of uni and three years with the same employer and her rent is half her monthly salary. She's in an industry which is unlikely to recover quickly.

Youngest was told on Tuesday that her company was closing but she's being paid for now.

I think the culture of extended travelling and so many going to uni will be over.

So sad for them.

@Sprinklez Yes if travel is reduced long term that decreases the possibility of spread from a pandemic. We don't know though if travel will be reduced in the medium to long term, or if it will only reduce until flight routes are recreated by the airlines that still exist.

Weird shit that might happen you say....

We could extend the transition period for leaving the EU regulations?

People might get into the food industry.

Because people will always need food. No matter what.

A massive gap in the ability of kids in schools.
Teachers more appreciated.
Medical staff treated with respect.
Teachers prioritising what needs taught instead of all the extra crap.

@NomadNoMore I left school into a recession with many industries destroyed. It was really hard to get work at first, but new industries did grow up that needed people with transferable skills.
Please don't think your DCs future is destroyed. They may find the next year or two harder than they would have, but they may also have access to new opportunities that we cannot currently foresee.

Exactly 40something: "I hope people will realise that we don’t need 24/7 access to shops and restaurants/takeaways/bars and things just generally stay slowed down a bit."

Many got so entitled in the quest to do/see/have/be seen.

As a kid of the 70s myself, me and others who grew up in that decade were possibly the last witnesses to a simpler life with far fewer expectations. Home tech really started to take off in the 80s and beyond. Prior to that, "ordinary" people generally lived locally, holidayed mostly in their own country, married mostly in their own county and accepted that you had to wait for some things. Or make do. Or make it yourself. Or do without. Life wasn't tragic because we didn't have a wall of balloons and all the plastic tat in the world you could dream of (to be binned the next day) at each and every opening of an envelope.

@alloutoffucks thanks, so did I. I wonder if one of the positives might be the return of vocational training or starting at the bottom in a company and working your way up. Fingers crossed.

alloutoffucks "We don't know though if travel will be reduced in the medium to long term, or if it will only reduce until flight routes are recreated by the airlines that still exist." Yes, true.

I do think that much statistical analysis will be done in terms of how much revenue will be generated by travel, versus how much revenue would be lost to another pandemic and its contributory spread factors.

What will they do if this doesn’t work?

If the numbers just continue to rise even with schools closed etc?

i dont understand the drug dealer thing-they cant start delivering in a lockdown if you get stopped frequently askin g where youre going

We might value the “unskilled” mire? All those carers (paid and unpaid), cleaners, child carers, street cleaners, bin men, food operatives, zero hours shelf stackers (the list goes on)

And Priti Patel could shove her point system where the sun don’t shine.