Your normal is history

[Devlesko]

Ok, I can understand that many have either not lived through, or been affected by a recession before.
But do people really expect the past normal, before the virus, to become the normal of the future. AINBU to say wake up and start preparing to maybe lose your job, income, home, and get used to living without the luxuries, as recessions have proved in the past.

Or AIBU and this isn't going to happen and we'll all live happily ever after, just with thousands dead, no recession at all.

think the OP needs to examine why she’s so desperate for people to be fretting and suffering about this. That’s quite disturbing to me.

Op started a similar thread a few days ago where she claimed to NOT understand how people would suffer financially and could people explain it

Really unpleasant taking such joy out of others misfortunes.

DrinkSangriaInThePark. Yes I am a teacher too ( primary ). Maybe you are younger than me and cuts hit you badly ? I was just making the point that it certainly wasn't a 'majority' but it must have felt like that to you if all your friends suffered. We bought our house in 2003 .

I'm at risk of losing my job. Doesn't mean that "normal is gone forever," I'll get another eventually if the worst happens. If you want to live a doom and gloom life, fine. But that's not in my nature.

People are losing their rag over things not being "normal" again, but what is normal anyway?

30 years ago no-one would have thought it normal that people are looking at a computer they keep in their pocket every 5 minutes to the exclusion of everyone around them. No one would have expected many of us to have no mandatory need to leave our homes anymore even for work or shopping.

What is "normal" changes all the time throughout history. Is the 2000-2020 type of "normal" likely to be "normal" in 2030? No.

FoodieToo We bought at the height of the Boom in 2007, so straight into negative equity by 2008! I think you're right, if it happened now, we wouldn't be as affected as my husband's job is secure now. We still have a huge mortgage now, whereas all our neighbours who bought before and after us paid 130,000 less for their houses 🙈 Anyway, let's hope it doesn't happen again... But we will manage if it does, we have experience 😆

I feel it's a rather patronising post to be honest and intent in causing stress for people

Can you imagine what some people's mental health will be like when this is over? I'm disabled & it was an effort before this to make myself go out, I haven't been out of the house since 12 March, until lockdown & shielding is lifted won't be going out, it could mean that I won't have left the house for 3 months if things are lifted at the earliest forecast, it could be longer, can anyone imagine how hard it will be for people like me?

Is it patronising or is it naive to think we are not facing a new normal

The relaxation of lockdown is not going to magically snap things back to how they were we are facing longer term challenges on an economic scale that we haven’t seen for decades much worse than the financial crisis of 12 years ago.

A lovely display of Schadenfreude here, with a side flourish of scaremongering.

Do you enjoy people being upset, OP?

If I don't die from this I'll be happy & if I don't lose loved ones I'll be ecstatic!!

Other than that I'll take it as it comes... I'll do what I can to help others get their lives back on track, I'll keep supporting small local businesses as well as larger retailers who have been good through this.

If I lose my job my friends will help me and if they lose theirs I will help them

As far as economic recovery goes, an economy recovers better & more quickly if people have a positive frame of mind about it. Negativity spirals.

I don't think threads like this help, but yes, it's your right to post what you want (within the guidelines) 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh, FFS. I very likely have Covid-19 (all symptoms, commuter in a hotspot, family and colleagues also poorly, no - none of us has been tested because none of us has ended up in ICU...) It's not been the best fun and I work with vulnerable people who were already struggling financially and mentally, so it's hitting them hard. BUT - the world will keep turning. Catastrophising is a game for the worried well.

If I get this virus I will die. I know it, that's what happens when you don't look after yourself. And that terrifies me, utterly terrifies me. So I have to keep believing that this will all be over one day and we will return to our lives outside. Otherwise, between fear of dying and fear of this never ending I will go insane. I don't need to contemplate what will happen on the other side of this, I just need to worry about getting there.