Do you think life will be dramatically different after the coronavirus?

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It is understandably very difficult for a lot of people who are forced into self-isolation. Especially those who have made significant life changes in a short space of time.

How will your life change once- hopefully- we resume to normality? Do you think it will be business as usual straightaway or do you think we will need just as much time to adjust?

I can say that my life has certainly been disrupted from what I knew. I think being in the thick of it makes it almost impossible to know how I will feel once we are granted more freedom. As a single mum of one, my socialising was limited to being none existent now. While I'm trying my hardest not to resent it by remembering that everyone's health is what ultimately matters, life does feel like it is passing by at a faster rate at only 2 weeks in.

I can honestly say I won't take that sense of freedom for granted again- we are curious, social beings after all.

So do you think it will change anything? Whether it is the grand scheme of things or for you personally?

I hope that everyone will just appreciate what they have much more. Before this pandemic I always felt lonely, bored, and stressed. Now I know what It REALLY feels like to be lonely, bored and stressed. I've made a promise to myself to not mope about every again and get up off my arse and do something about it whenever I feel that way.

In terms of the rest of the UK I think those people that didn't take lockdown and social distancing seriously in the first place will resume their normal life very quickly. I think those that have complied with everything and realised the seriousness of what is going on will have a tougher time getting back to normal.

Depends how long it goes on for. If we are all back to work / school in September then yes there will be a recession but it's global so I think everything will get moving again fairly quickly and confidence returns. My daughter is 11 and I said to her yesterday that it is likely that we will be entering a period of huge prosperity as she comes onto the job market. I feel sorry for the current 20 somethings though. And also people coming up for retirement who will have lost so much money off of their pension funds.

If it drags on past September I don't think many people are prepared for just how awful it is going to be.

It will be interesting to see if the border in the EU stay after the pandemic.

After all the political debate for what seemed like forever, the demise of the EU, or at least the demise of open borders, happens within a short time frame based on the very practical issue of Covid 19

Much depends on if/when a vaccine is found and how effective it is, if there are “waves” of Covid lots of things could be v different for a long while.

People will be trying to get/keep a job and manage financially.

I hope that it will become more acceptable for people to work from home; and also to use video-conferencing for meetings. The beneficial effect on pollution levels has been astonishing during this lock-down. And I hope that some aspects of work practices could change in the long term to prevent so much commuting.

I would like to also see this as a wake-up call on national self-sufficiency. We can and should be self-sufficient in food - the many flights to move food round the world are not necessary - or need not be if agriculture was prioritised and supported as it should be. We really do not need out-of-season food - it is a luxury that the planet cannot afford.

There will be a huge economic hit. I hate to be political here, but austerity has really come home to roost now with underfunded and staffed public services (especially the health service). The result is that we are now spending much more to make amends. And what a joke it is that the government is demanding that all LAs get rough sleepers off the streets to reduce viral spread - if it can be done now, it should have been done before.

Hopefully this will be a wake-up to government to invest in people and services in the future.

I assume international travel is likely to become more expensive as travel companies fail.

I hope that this will bring a new attitude towards bringing germs into the workplace, and a strong push towards WFH for those with coughs, colds, and other illness that while minor for some can have other people laid up in bed for ages.

I’m very lucky, DH and I have very secure jobs and I am determined to get back to normal as soon as it is safe to do so. The only changes I will make is that I will not use Ocado or Hays Travel ever again.

I'm hoping that we no longer accept any government's basic premise that business wealth trickles down, or that the welfare state needs to be underfunded, or that private sector healthcare is a good model.

Frankly I hope we all spend less on things we don't necessarily need like intercontinental holidays or new cars or endless, endless new clothes, makeup, new furniture, everything really.

I hope there is a continuing appreciation for the jobs that people do which aren't glamorous but which are part of the machine of running the fucking country. And that people get properly paid and properly treated going forward.

I hope that the USA finally wakes up to the fact that Trump is off his fucking face most of the time and is too narcissistic and too thick to be able to run what used to be the main superpower in the world. (I'm appalled that the fact that he's a massive, massive racist wasn't enough to do that.) I actually cannot take in how actively obstructive he has been over his whole term of office and many thousands of his citizens will die because of it. It's only down to chance that he isn't in some way affecting the rest of the world )yet), finger on the button etc.