If this had happened 40-50 years ago...

[Swissrollypoly]

Do you think things would be different? Do you think we’d just have to get on with things as we wouldn’t have the means to work from home or communicate via Zoom or Microsoft teams etc.
Social media didn’t exist, so there wouldn’t be as much panic and scaremongering.
I just wonder how different it would all be, had it happened in another time period.

What a confusing thread. I started work 40 years ago. My family went abroad, up to London, ate foreign food, drank wine, went to the races and the opera. My mother took me to Soho to a little deli where they sold fresh ravioli, parmesan and garlic. Everyone else got olive oil from the chemist to put in their ears and use as sun oil.

Different now I'd say.

@StarCat2020

Lots of people still eat very bland, repetitive diets - probably more of them involve convenience food now, but lots of people still have very narrow palates and idea of what a meal is. Those people just don't much post on MN I'm here and post sometimes

And your point is what exactly?

Critical care wasn’t really a specialty 40-50 years ago. So many many more would have died.

And your point is what exactly?
I was replying to another poster

There would be no need for women to financial provide for their families if one wage could sustain family life.

Why is it only the job of the person with the penis to financially provide? There are many, sound reasons why a woman wouldn’t want to rely on a man economically.

There would be no need for women to financial provide for their families if one wage could sustain family life.

Not sure why sex is being dragged into that? I think what you mean is that there would be no need for both parents to work if one wage could sustain family life. Their genitalia isn't remotely relevant.

@Flaxmeadow

Growing up in the 1960s, none of my friends mothers worked, except one. She was a GP.

I remember the opposite. Most of my friends mothers worked in textile mills

well the difference is obvious, and both are true. Gp's are middle class. factory workers are working class. most middle class wives did not work, except a few professionals eg doctors. it was a point of pride for a m/c man that his wife did not have to go out to work, that he could keep her. most working class wives worked because they had to.

I think we would have got on with it better, people are so much more entitled these days and feel their Liberty is taken away
I think we were more considerate to our community back then

i agree. i remember a different attitude, which was a remnant of wartime years, and probably before that too.
but people are products of the world into which they are born.
i still cannot understand how some people over=extend themselves, buying things they cannot afford.
i would not dream of doing that. unless it was for something absolutely essential, eg a mortgage, but even then it would be the bare minimum.
all this living in debt would cause me such anxiety. but that is what people are encouraged to do now. when i was young if you wanted something you saved up for it, and then you bought it. that seems sensible to me. the micawber principle.
but there has been an explosion of consumerism in the last 40 years, and much more individualism, selfishness, rather than a sense of duty and communal responsibility.
it suits producers of goods to spin instant gratification, to sell more goods, make more profits. nothing else matters. greed is good, or god.
whereas in the past, giving in to instant gratification was seen as childish, something to be ashamed of in an adult.
self-discipline, moderation, unselfishness were mature virtues.
but of course there is still much of that now, else society would not function at all. or the NHS keep going now.
but the growth in materialism is regrettable.