I wonder what life will be like in 5 years

[Whenismumhome]

Do you think we will even be talking about covid in 5 years time?

We'll be having our 62nd temporary lockdown, there'll be children who don't know what it is like to grow up with grandparents, and the deniers will still be saying "It's just FLU!"

It will still seem vivid in our minds, but we will be living as normal, but hopefully a better normal - with more home working, family time and less air pollution.

Me and DH we’re talking about this earlier - when will we get to a point where a celeb getting it won’t make the news for example?

I know it’s not the flu but we don’t give that a second thought really- maybe one day I’ll open the paper in April and say to DH - ooh it looks like it was a bad Covid 19 season this winter - 20k deaths or something

Probably not Covid - but maybe another virus - or you know climate change will have made things pretty bad. We screwed 😂

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

Me and DH we’re talking about this earlier - when will we get to a point where a celeb getting it won’t make the news for example?

I know it’s not the flu but we don’t give that a second thought really- maybe one day I’ll open the paper in April and say to DH - ooh it looks like it was a bad Covid 19 season this winter - 20k deaths or something

I think this is a not unlikely scenario.

We'll also be living with massive "austerity".

Have you seen Mad Max: Fury Road?

That.

The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/08/the-mandibles-lionel-shriver-review-biting-near-future-satire

I'm hoping we'll be finding random face masks in the back of cupboards, and thinking "that was a weird time" but not really giving it more thought.

Figmentofmyimagination yeah that's probably about right.

Oh wow someone else who has read the mandibles you know I said to dh in April that was where this would go, only the virus takes the roll of the internet crash that happened before the book started and then it goes on from there!

But yes it feels a very depressing but realistic possibility (and anyone who hasn’t read it do because it’s a very good book but yes very dark!)

I guess like most other viruses that kill, people won’t care by then. If someone asked me how many people died of flu last year I wouldn’t get within 10,000. I guess it will be similar.

I for one will welcome our space monkey overlords.

Meh, virus will burn itself out, exactly like every other pandemic, life will go back to normal, except with really high taxes and unemployment for a while.

We will have come out the other side, the economy will be improving and the youngsters will be changing the world for the better. I hope there will also be some carefree partying - a 21st century version of the Roaring 20s that followed the devastation of WW1 and the Spanish Flu.

Probably the same as now 🤷‍♀️

We've only eradicated one disease so we're likely to struggle with this one for a while

I imagine the effects of long Covid will cost a fortune

Uniformed patrols who talk like Batman, armoured vehicles, wire fences and derelict buildings everywhere

Hopefully things will be back to 2019 levels and I'll be pausing now and then to remember and appreciate that it's not like 2020 anymore.

Unfortunately I think it'll be Brexit effects that will dominate

Interesting how that The Mandibles review from 2016 finishes with stockpiling toilet paper!

I'm just hoping that there isn't an Ebola-type virus pandemic by then with an even higher death rate. Hopefully we might be past the Covid pandemic with an effective vaccine; hopefully a global warming crisis won't mean that Covid pales in comparison.

I've also read The Mandibles and agree that C19 could be the catalyst that the internet crash was in the book. Hyperinflation (ie money becoming worthless) is a scary but real possibility esp with Brexit.

I hope you’re right about the virus @Grobagsforever, the thought of this carrying on for another 5 years is unbearable

@LaurieFairyCake

Probably the same as now 🤷‍♀️

We've only eradicated one disease so we're likely to struggle with this one for a while

I imagine the effects of long Covid will cost a fortune

You think we will still be living under these restrictions in 5 years time? There's no way. The country would literally be in ruins. I for one can't wait for the day when the covid daily death tally isn't released and we might just have a surveillance report like we do for flu that nobody reads or cares about

Five years from now I suspect this miserable year will be largely forgotten about and remembered only with a shudder,

The Mandibles is an excellent book.

I read somewhere that experts have been predicting a big epidemic, but that Covid isn't it. Not sure about a 5 year time frame, but 10-20 perhaps.