Life after the pandemic..

[Tipp blue]

Things are starting to look up, vaccine rollout is in full swing, what will be different in the future? Will you continue to work from home? I think that will be the main difference that people will move from urban areas and give a shot in the arm to the more rural parts of countries. People travelling halfway around the world for a business meeting is likley finished.
Theres going to be lots of positive changes in my opinion.

 

[Nymzee]

I've already flat out refused to go back to the office 5 days. I've said 2-3 days max as they can't give me any genuine reason why they need me 5 days considering I attend all meetings, all deadlines etc. Think it's going to hinge a lot on the confidence bosses have with their staff though and the minority that slack off will ruin it for the rest.

 

[Joey66]

Things are starting to look up, vaccine rollout is in full swing, what will be different in the future? Will you continue to work from home? I think that will be the main difference that people will move from urban areas and give a shot in the arm to the more rural parts of countries. People travelling halfway around the world for a business meeting is likley finished.
Theres going to be lots of positive changes in my opinion.

Brazil's doing well Not - imo Covid has to be cleaned up World-wide..,.....

 

[roydo]

Hopefully Bristol will stop being smashed up.

Think the SD shopping thing will take a while to totally go away. I actually prefer it, as do the supermarket staff apparently. @Toast might confirm, or not.

The uptick in on line buying wont go away neither. Its become a habit for millions. Also, annual booster jabs will be the norm for way more people that get the flu one; if I ran the NHS/Country, I would literally have a separate Jab Force thing.

And I reckon that the new found appreciation for folk doing jobs we hardly batted an eye lid about will remain. (Refuse collectors, shop staff, drivers, that sort of "low level" ones).

 

[coollino]

I can't see many businesses retaining or attracting employees if they don't allow at least two days working from home a week.

 

[Tipp blue]

Brazil's doing well Not - imo Covid has to be cleaned up World-wide..,.....

That's never going to happen, we'll start living with covid like we do with many other deadly diseases.. an effective treatment is what is needed once that arrives it's end game for covid as a concern (certainly in wealthy countries), it would appear that pfizer is onto something with their treatment phase 1 just started.. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...-initiates-phase-1-study-novel-oral-antiviral

 

[Moggers]

Yeah the work from home definitely here to stay, think that will be the main change. Think it was always on the cards the pandemic just gave it a nudge.

Makes me laugh the shout for getting people back into city centres to save businesses, I had never ventured into my local shop before the pandemic, on first name terms with the fella in there now since wfh lol would rather give him my dough than Tesco's in town.

So in a nutshell think local areas will have more re-generation.

 

[Dharma]

With over 23 million, and growing, known active cases worldwide its far from over.

 

[Joey66]

That's never going to happen, we'll start living with covid like we do with many other deadly diseases.. an effective treatment is what is needed once that arrives it's end game for covid as a concern (certainly in wealthy countries), it would appear that pfizer is onto something with their treatment phase 1 just started.. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...-initiates-phase-1-study-novel-oral-antiviral

Well it ain't going to disappear plus the variants.......we shall have work around it ..'..I think an annual Covid booster jab annually is the future .......just like the flu jab etc

 

[AsiaAsia82]

I think things are still uncertain but as one of Ireland’s greatest philosophers once said, ‘life is a rollercoaster you’ve just got to ride it’

 

[Kurt.]

There’s not for big Phil sadly

 

[Dharma]

That's never going to happen, we'll start living with covid like we do with many other deadly diseases.. an effective treatment is what is needed once that arrives it's end game for covid as a concern (certainly in wealthy countries), it would appear that pfizer is onto something with their treatment phase 1 just started.. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...-initiates-phase-1-study-novel-oral-antiviral

Re-badged Ivermectin?

 

[Toast]

Hopefully Bristol will stop being smashed up.

Think the SD shopping thing will take a while to totally go away. I actually prefer it, as do the supermarket staff apparently. @Toast might confirm, or not.

The uptick in on line buying wont go away neither. Its become a habit for millions. Also, annual booster jabs will be the norm for way more people that get the flu one; if I ran the NHS/Country, I would literally have a separate Jab Force thing.

And I reckon that the new found appreciation for folk doing jobs we hardly batted an eye lid about will remain. (Refuse collectors, shop staff, drivers, that sort of "low level" ones).

We can’t recruit enough people to pick our .com orders quick enough.


We have loads more vans now, and as the taxi business dried up, those drivers are now delivering shopping it would seem.

What I will say is that the next 6 months or so will be absolutely brutal and cuts in other departments will deffo be made.

(The wife’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing for her customers to get their dogs groomed though, so that’s good news for her business ! Every cloud..)

 

[blue1948]

The saying "Familiarity breeds contempt " surely applies here .The death rate is still too high worldwide and the chance of mutations still very strong and some on here are talking like it is all just a matter of rescheduling a few work days ,the real side effects of the current vaccines are still not known in full .
This virus and it's after affects will be with us far longer than "just a jab " once a year suggests and far more of a problem than the common cold and influenza unless there is a more efficient vaccine than we have now.Which is available to all the world and not just the "first world countries " as that is where the vast majority of the vaccine is now .

 

[roydo]

What I will say is that the next 6 months or so will be absolutely brutal and cuts in other departments will deffo be made.

In supermarket world? Why?