Well, welcome to the new world.
Perhaps in a lot of things, we should have been there a long time ago, but I suspect complacency and laziness has a lot to do with some of the issues.
Like washing your hands. It's usually hell on earth to get a child to do anything and you have to be at them and at them to do anything.
I'm not sure about social distancing, but I've long wanted people in the supermarket to stop leaning over me to get stuff off the shelves when they could wait one minute longer.
Or being crowded into a restaurant where you can practically eat off the plate of the person at the next table. I like the distance, and the privacy it brings.
I'm also a fan of the new click and collect phenomenon where I don't have to go out to get something I want; just get it delivered.
Of course, there's still the necessity to go to a shop and physically see an item before you buy it, in my case clothes and shoes, but online sales for a lot of things are so much better, especially books and magazines.
I guess future traffic jams won't be cars but delivery trucks.
I like the idea of working from home. Aside from having to face time with colleagues every now and then, if you don't have to be in an office, then give it up. It will reduce pressure on roads, public transport, and reduce the concentration of the population in one place. You might even get to work on time, and get something to eat before you arrive!
As long as they get the internet right, which in this country is a pretty big if.
And perhaps now people will stop blaming 5g for the COVID virus.
Perhaps this homeschooling thing might work as well, as over the last few weeks I've seen it in action, and in most cases it works. Of course the isolation of students could be a problem, and there is always a need for face time for teachers and other students for interaction with contemporaries, but perhaps a compromise could be found.
Among the negatives in a time like this is the fear of using public transport, a fear no one is taking lightly, leading to children having to be taken to and brought home from school, and the fact there are potentially 800 cars needed to do it.
I used to leave home 30 mins before school end and was first in the pickup queue. Now I leave 45 minutes before and the closest I can get in nearly a mile from the school. And the traffic is a dangerous hazard in the main street, blocking driveways, bus stops, and lanes. It's basically a mess, and it cannot continue without more organization.
Or we find a cure, or at the very least, a vaccine.
But there's another problem. The anti-vaxxers. Everywhere in the world, it seems, not more than 50% of the population will get vaccinated, so it means that we may NEVER get past where we are now.
And the very worst problem that this new world has sprung on us, we may never travel again. Anywhere.
Perhaps we really do need a miracle.
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