What social change do you think COVID will trigger?

[jewel1968]

I have been pondering this for a while and as we spend more time in lockdown I wonder what the long term social impacts will be. Some are fairly obvious but I am wondering what else might occur. For me I think when we finally get to the other side of this pandemic I can see some changes, such as:

• lots more home working where infrastructure allows
• more people continuing to exercise at home or in the park and gyms not so attractive
• fashion changes with people more focused on comfort e.g. high heels go out of favour
• perhaps an impact on how we look after children
• if schools perfect online learning we might see it used in some circumstances e.g. When kids are too sick to travel to school but could work from home
• a change in how we test kids e.g. might we move away from exams

I know some social scientists think we might enter a decadent period similar to the roaring twenties.

Interested in your thoughts...

I love this thread

Having seen how stingy some Brits are with tips, maybe the poorly educated have a right to be question the generosity of people they provide service to.

We don't have a tipping culture as we have minimum wage etc and many of us are on it , so why would I tip someone doing their job who probably earns the same as me.
I tip in restuarants if good service etc if its one where i go to bar to order etc , I often don't
Lots of jobs there not even Allowed to take tips

@Zoorhik oh because those poorer countries matter now do they? Now they could pose a threat to us with a new variant. Never mind the disease, infant and child mortality and starvation that we in the western world could cure.... I don't think Covid is as high up their agenda as it is to you.

I think the NHS will start to utilise telephone appointments much more. I have a lot of appointments and for years I have said it would be more efficient for a lot of them to be done over Skype or phone. Now they are it’s great, no more sitting in a waiting room and taking hours off work.

Also, I really hope masks continue to be used on public transport. I will continue to use one anyway!