Length of Shutdown - Crystal ball stuff, but just wondered what people thought?

edgex

The running/athletics orgs have everything up till end of May cancelled. Cycling has gone till end of June.
Obviously those dates can, & will, be re-assessed, but they won't be bringing them forward.

Estate agents & house buying/selling are non-essential, so it will be one of the later things to re-start.
I wonder if we'll see a lot more video tours, decent pictures & floor plans, so as to reduce the face-to-face contact between agents/owners & 'lookers'.

MoneySeeker1

Thrugelmir said:

homeless9 said:

I think people won't be able to cope indoors for too long. I am an introvert and stay in a lot anyway, but like to watch sport, but nothing is on, so I am already hating being indoors, so what it's like for the extroverts that like to be out the house and keeping busy - I imagine it's extremely difficult.

Maybe after this there will be less crimes committed as people will realise what jail time is like.

People will appreciate what having freedom and democracy means living in the UK. Rather than the authoritarian Chinese approach. 

Not forgetting an element of deviousness and secretiveness that is alien to some of us - ie the open/honest ones of us.

A phonecall to a friend I know is trustworthy this morning and mentioning one little "work-around" I've thought up to a particular problem - and I had to follow it with "Do NOT tell anyone else - as they might use it and then tell someone else and they tell someone else and it goes viral - and I won't be able to use it myself any longer because Everyone Else will be using it too and ruin it for me". That is selfish I know - and it's an alien experience to me to be deliberately selfish - because "I have it - I give it" is my normal way of looking at things and I don't like thinking "That's a bit selfish of me" - even though I know very well the vast majority of people have been selfish in all sorts of ways all sorts of times for donkeys years. This is not good for my "sharing/honest" self-respect.

Thrugelmir

Do whatever occupies your time in a way that keeps you content through these difficult times. 

hazyjo

Just been furloughed and I never thought that would happen 😂

I think this will last longer than I first predicted.  Sadly

Davesnave

hazyjo said:

Just been furloughed and I never thought that would happen 😂

I think this will last longer than I first predicted.  Sadly

Sorry to hear that. I think there are going to be very few whose lives won't be seriously impacted by this crisis, regardless of their age, health and usual lifestyle. The butterfly effect will see to that. It will have positive outcomes too, maybe just from people having time off the treadmill to take stock of their lives.....but I'm not suggesting that's you!

jumperabv3

Grenage said:

It's your prerogative to believe what you will; Personally, I opt to take the recommendations of science and experts in their fields.  A few outliers are no reason to overturn a century of evidence, but this really isn't the forum for this kind of debate,

I agree with the latter, this is not the space for this kind of debate. Thanks.

MoneySeeker1

Davesnave said:

hazyjo said:

Just been furloughed and I never thought that would happen 😂

I think this will last longer than I first predicted.  Sadly

Sorry to hear that. I think there are going to be very few whose lives won't be seriously impacted by this crisis, regardless of their age, health and usual lifestyle. The butterfly effect will see to that. It will have positive outcomes too, maybe just from people having time off the treadmill to take stock of their lives.....but I'm not suggesting that's you!

You read that book too then did you Dave? That being the one where groups of time travellers were able to journey back to the past and one of them inadvertently changed things for the worse and it was with one tiny little action (ie that butterfly).

Ripples on a pond is another way of looking at it - throw a stone into a pond and we don't know how far outwards the effect will radiate.

This whole thing is going to do a lot of showing up the sheep from the goats and a lot of people will reveal/are already revealing their true colours (ie nicer than we thought/nastier than we thought/more farsighted or shortsighted than we thought etc etc).

Davesnave

MoneySeeker1 said:

Davesnave said:

hazyjo said:

Just been furloughed and I never thought that would happen 😂

I think this will last longer than I first predicted.  Sadly

Sorry to hear that. I think there are going to be very few whose lives won't be seriously impacted by this crisis, regardless of their age, health and usual lifestyle. The butterfly effect will see to that. It will have positive outcomes too, maybe just from people having time off the treadmill to take stock of their lives.....but I'm not suggesting that's you!

You read that book too then did you Dave? That being the one where groups of time travellers were able to journey back to the past and one of them inadvertently changed things for the worse and it was with one tiny little action (ie that butterfly).

I've read stories like that, but it's a well-known phrase derived from chaos theory.

I was implying this situation with give many people thinking space, or alter their lives in ways they'd not necessarily have chosen, but the eventual outcome could well be very positive.

hazyjo

MoneySeeker1 said:

Davesnave said:

hazyjo said:

Just been furloughed and I never thought that would happen 😂

I think this will last longer than I first predicted.  Sadly

Sorry to hear that. I think there are going to be very few whose lives won't be seriously impacted by this crisis, regardless of their age, health and usual lifestyle. The butterfly effect will see to that. It will have positive outcomes too, maybe just from people having time off the treadmill to take stock of their lives.....but I'm not suggesting that's you!

You read that book too then did you Dave? That being the one where groups of time travellers were able to journey back to the past and one of them inadvertently changed things for the worse and it was with one tiny little action (ie that butterfly).

It's a common phrase. And a film (The Butterfly Effect with Ashton wotshisname). Anyone enjoying time travel themed things (me!), try Replay by Ken Grimwood. Been my favourite book for decades. Know that's very off topic, but any chance I get to mention it, especially as many are at home, I'll throw it out there I may dig out one of my copies. I read it every couple of years.

Anyway... as you were!

Crashy_Time

Davesnave said:

MoneySeeker1 said:

Davesnave said:

hazyjo said:

Just been furloughed and I never thought that would happen 😂

I think this will last longer than I first predicted.  Sadly

Sorry to hear that. I think there are going to be very few whose lives won't be seriously impacted by this crisis, regardless of their age, health and usual lifestyle. The butterfly effect will see to that. It will have positive outcomes too, maybe just from people having time off the treadmill to take stock of their lives.....but I'm not suggesting that's you!

You read that book too then did you Dave? That being the one where groups of time travellers were able to journey back to the past and one of them inadvertently changed things for the worse and it was with one tiny little action (ie that butterfly).

I've read stories like that, but it's a well-known phrase derived from chaos theory.

I was implying this situation with give many people thinking space, or alter their lives in ways they'd not necessarily have chosen, but the eventual outcome could well be very positive.

Many will be hoping so.