General understanding that households may need state financial help from time to time and less shame in that.
Haha! Errr no! See ALL the threads where benefit bashing is still very much going on and even at start of lockdown in Mar/apr posters who were now claimants themselves STILL thinking they were above other claimants and that therefore "normal" claimant rules shouldn't apply to them!
Personally - dx ocd is relevant
I'm hoping:
WFH far more normalised and available to do
People finally respecting others personal space. I'm housebound at the moment but one of the things I really hate when I'm out and about was people being too damn close! And not just ocd but security wise too like at tills and cashpoints
People more aware and better at personal hygiene esp handwashing. Yes mine is excessive but due to the ocd I notice others habits too and there were FAR too many using public loos and not washing their hands at all! Some would maybe splash a little cold water on then dry their hands on their clothes! Very very few properly washed their hands with hot water and soap - gross!
I'm hoping telephone medical appointments remain. There was clearly no good reason they couldn't exist before cv as the tech has been there for many years but I'm really hoping the changes stay. Yes easier for people like me (of which there are far more than is generally recognised) but also makes appointments quicker which will no doubt mean more appointments available, and tbh it also eliminates a lot of prejudice if gp can't see you. I got dx for things this year that I've had or had similar before and got effective treatment quickly and unbiased mainly as the gp concerned could not see I was overweight. Yes weight is relevant for SOME conditions but not all and too often ime and that of others I've discussed this with, they focus on that leaving little time for what your actually seeing them about and it can even lead to misdx!
Handshakes - I don't shake hands (see hand washing point!) so I'm hoping this will be seen as normal rather than an oddity
More deliveries I hope will stay even though I'm not using this much at the moment because of stupid doorstep deliveries. That's not something I could cope with
Environmentally I hope the much reduced business travel stays. Again the tech has been available to make this largely unnecessary for years, its old fashioned and resistant to change idiots that have kept it!
Shopping local I hope stays and improves
Presenteeism reduces I hope. We have an appalling attitude to this in Uk and it serves nobody! Because employees going to work when sick just make others sick and aren't at their most productive probably for far longer than if they simply took a few days off and recovered properly. Numerous studies show it REDUCES productivity across the country as a whole, because of course these employees aren't just making their colleagues sick but their colleagues families, then their families colleagues and contacts eg person goes in sick to work, passes infection onto colleague who passes it onto their child who passes it onto their teacher etc so it means multiples of people unproductive rather than just one! Plain stupid!
Training and meetings are simply not effective on a teleconference. define effective and non effective? If it's a person just telling you stuff and possibly answering questions I really fail to see how a video conference can't achieve this perfectly well.
More practical training eg 1st aid, lifting and moving etc yes it's good to physically practice but theoretical stuff? Nah!
I hope some things will stay and some not. We shall see