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?

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

They've already announced stopping filming.

I think the suicide rate will increase and many homeless people will die and more people will be made homeless.

We're video skyping family every night at the moment - so in a way, more in touch than ever, without physical contact or gatherings.

I'm actually wondering when will be the next time I can hug my mum, or my siblings. I think it will be a while.

I have at least seen my mum - she came to her back door, and I stood well back, many metres away, and opened her gate with (recently washed) wrist. That's weird, but necessary.

Oh, and already, watching TV dramas, it's weird watching people hug and shake hands! That sort of social contact is sooo last year now...

Suicides rate tend to fall at times of national crises.

Suicides rate tend to fall at times of national crises. How fascinating! Perhaps because there is the feeling that everyone is going through the same thing? Or it gives people more of an external focus and so discourages introspection?

Why would addicts not be able to get hold of heroin? I'm pretty sure neither the sellers nor the buyers are going to be put off by a lockdown, given that, you know, it was already illegal anyway.

And if you think it's because the streets will be too empty, making the risk of getting caught much higher, then you don't know drug addicts. Or drug dealers. They will find a way.

No way to a baby boom. This is a public health crisis, who’d actively try to conceive at the moment? There’s the risk of catching it whilst pregnant but also I’d dread entering a hospital whilst pregnant for scans etc

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@VanGoghsDog - I know. I was just wishfully thinking they might have enough filmed that we wont run out before this is all over

The global obsession with overpaid young men who can kick balls into Nets will reduce.

People will value seasonal, local food.

Air quality will improve as fewer cars are driven.

People will buy fewer clothes, keep them for longer.

The deep global recession will plunge billions into poverty/severe debt, leading to a wave of proletarian revolutions dubbed "The Western Spring" and the fall of global capitalism at long last.

Less food waste. I put a tired old broccoli out of its misery yesterday and made a delicious soup.

Heroin is most often smuggled from places like Afghanistan and Iraq so reduced travel and freight will make it a lot harder.

I have no idea what proportion of cannabis and other drugs are produced here.

Why would addicts not be able to get hold of heroin? I'm pretty sure neither the sellers nor the buyers are going to be put off by a lockdown, given that, you know, it was already illegal anyway.

So you think the dealers will give it away for nothing? Or those who need it will get jobs as delivery drivers to pay for it?!

I think the worry that many of us have is that addicts who would normally shoplift and then sell their haul for money to buy a fix will no longer be able to do that. We all know that the addiction comes first so what will they do to get cash? As there are less people on the streets to mug for cash, then what? Yes they will be able to get hold of the stuff, but its how they get the money to pay for it that worries me.

Yes because caring about animals and cats means one cannot care about humans .

It isn’t either or.

So basically, if I care about animal welfare I must therefore not care for human beings.

Don’t be a dick ffs, it’s really really really boring.
Some really fucking dim witted responses on here.

Oh, and if we had a bit more respect for the planet and other species ,we might not be in this mess.....

You could say we’re all a bit bat.....shit.

Given that we know this virus may mutate and that we understand more about the speed and ways of cross-infection, I wonder if more and more buttons, knobs and handles will become sensors - so we wave our hands over shop doors, loo flushes, park gates, transport doors. Pedestrian crossings and cash dispensers/ payment machines rather than actually touch anything.

It’s already happening to an extent but I think it will go much, much further.

And another thing - thank goodness for people like The Cat Neuterer caring enough for strays - without these people, cities and rural areas would be awash with thousands more skinny, wounded, exhausted, feral cats and their kittens.

Think of all the alcoholics & drug addicts who won't be able to get supplies for their addiction once we go in to full lockdown.

In 70 years, we will have rejoined the EU, and the children we're shielding from the realities of it all now will bore their grandchildren silly droning about how great British Covid-19 Spirit was, back when they were lads and lasses.

They will campaign to leave the EU again on the basis of how great this year was.

No casual sex, no dating.

Interesting things are going to happen with hair. It's going to be a toss-up what wins: home haircuts, long hair tied back for both boys and girls, or parents just shaving the whole lot off with clippers.

I'm going for Twat Knots all round on the hair thing.

Years worth of tobacco stains will be removed from fingers after hour upon hour of vigorous washing.

.... Just saying ;)

Children in abusive homes have no escape. Same for adults in abusive relationships.

I actual can't get that out of my head

This is what is haunting me, too -my Grannie was married to a violent, brutal man, medal "had his moments". I've seen it and lived in it as a child and it's horrific. I'm 66, and it's only recently that I stopped having regular nightmares. (Still get them occasionally.) The fear is dreadful.