Getting back to normal

[wildbarnet]

I know it is a way off but how do people feel when I goes back to normal ? Are you anxious just interested to know

I probably won't work in an office full time again or touch and hug people that aren't clean

You're going to ask people to take a shower before hugging them?

I cannot bloody wait. The second I can be crammed into a sweaty gig, club, festival, pub, plane, restaurant, race day, theatre I will be. Bring it on.

@Lelophants

I just can't picture it anymore. When is normal? I probably won't work in an office full time again or touch and hug people that aren't clean. It's made me realise how gross public transport was before.

I can't think of anything worse than working from home indefinitely. The sooner I can get back to the office and work with people the better.

@ThornAmongstRoses

Just the thought of a crowded train, no thanks. More than happy to carry on social distancing!

Do I ever think there will come time where people will get on crowded trains to the point where people are standing up, rubbing bodies, crashing into each other, our faces only inches away from someone else, and us not be in masks and it not even cross our mind that it could be a problem?

It will never happen.

I don’t think we will ever have what we used to have. Like someone else sad, the fear is ingrained to us now.

My dad has said that he will never go into a supermarket again without a face mask. He said that even when the vaccines are ruled out, and infection and death rates are at an all time low, if not near e laugh eradicated, he will still not go to a public place without a mask on.

That’s not normal.

He’s welcome too, but for me I certainly won’t so will be back to my normal that way and in many others

I want to stand in a packed pub, fighting to get to the bar, getting bashed about all over the place. Normally I’d rather something a bit more civilised but I feel like that would make me feel alive and human.

^^this. I miss the rough and tumble of packed bars and dance floors, I miss those random chats you have at the bar above the music with strangers, i miss the noise and energy and joy and sense of freedom and possibility. For all that i might have whinged about not being able to get served
Humans aren’t meant to be discrete units. It’s not natural.

Any aspect of the current situation that a) takes more effort or b) costs more than the way we did things before will be ditched.

Can see a WFH increase, if not full time, then many doing 1-2 days a week at home, its been proved to work well and saved companies money.

Everything else has increased costs or decreased profits, or made life less efficient or less pleasant. Can't see anything else lasting. (Other than dog ownership being more normal. Think dog walkers will make a fortune after Easter when everyone goes back to the office and the lockdown puppy needs daily walks)

@KnitFastDieWarm

I want to stand in a packed pub, fighting to get to the bar, getting bashed about all over the place. Normally I’d rather something a bit more civilised but I feel like that would make me feel alive and human.

^^this. I miss the rough and tumble of packed bars and dance floors, I miss those random chats you have at the bar above the music with strangers, i miss the noise and energy and joy and sense of freedom and possibility. For all that i might have whinged about not being able to get served
Humans aren’t meant to be discrete units. It’s not natural.

That sounds like my idea of hell.

I like pubs and other venues that are humming and with a good ambience. I would hate anywhere to be so crowded that I have to push my way past people.

Two things I'm looking forward to - going to the pub, sitting at the bar and just chatting with other people and the bar staff (pubs have been closed here in Ireland since March). Also, going out for food that someone else has cooked. I've cooked every bloody meal we've eaten since February (DH doesn't cook, not sure I'd want him to start trying to, really!).

That's about it.

I miss concerts. The last one I went too was the Spice Girls in 2019 with my sister. We got far too drunk and did what we usually do at concerts. Made friends with another set of pissed sisters!!

Happens every time.

@KnitFastDieWarm

I want to stand in a packed pub, fighting to get to the bar, getting bashed about all over the place. Normally I’d rather something a bit more civilised but I feel like that would make me feel alive and human.

^^this. I miss the rough and tumble of packed bars and dance floors, I miss those random chats you have at the bar above the music with strangers, i miss the noise and energy and joy and sense of freedom and possibility. For all that i might have whinged about not being able to get served
Humans aren’t meant to be discrete units. It’s not natural.

The truest things I have heard in a long time. Getting back to normal is being HUMAN again. I am quite disturbed at the quite frankly insane (and sad) views of some of the posters on here literally gagging to throw their freedom and liberties away.

noise and energy and joy and sense of freedom

Sums it up really.

@IcedPurple

I probably won't work in an office full time again or touch and hug people that aren't clean

You're going to ask people to take a shower before hugging them?

I just meant I dont feel the urge to touch and hug everyone I meet and tbh I have a few snotty colleagues who it'll be nice to have an excuse not to touch whenever we say hi!

TrustTheGeneGenie - Angry? No. Just pointing out when you're talking shit that's all

I originally pointed out that the Govt did not give a guarantee of when things would get back to normal. You replied with "ffs", "you're talking shit", and a personal attack accusing me of "liking" that things will not get back to normal and that "we" all know it. Whoever "we" is?

I get that people are frustrated and angry with lockdowns, but taking it out on other posters doesn't help an argument, if they even have a reasonable argument, apart from "ffs" and "your talking shit" ? Nor do ad hominem attacks on other posters

@Flaxmeadow

TrustTheGeneGenie - Angry? No. Just pointing out when you're talking shit that's all

I originally pointed out that the Govt did not give a guarantee of when things would get back to normal. You replied with "ffs", "you're talking shit", and a personal attack accusing me of "liking" that things will not get back to normal and that "we" all know it. Whoever "we" is?

I get that people are frustrated and angry with lockdowns, but taking it out on other posters doesn't help an argument, if they even have a reasonable argument, apart from "ffs" and "your talking shit" ? Nor do ad hominem attacks on other posters

Personal attack saying you're enjoying this? Ok then. What you said is that the government have never said we will go back to normal. Therefore implying we won't, which yes, is shite.