Ermintruder
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(Apologies for not having returned to respond on my thread https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/covid-19-precognition-the-lockdown-did-you-sense-this-was-going-to-happen ....I will return to that).
I wanted to try and pin-down the idea behind this proposed new thread before it slips my mind, because I feel this is an important & valid set of conjectures.
May I preface this: I'm writing as someone who's only had 1.5 days of 'Working From Home' since the UK lockdown started on 23 Mar, and today's been my first day off in a outdoors/everywhere fortnight. So I'm seeing how a fair chunk of the world is changing shape just now, up close.
Cutting to the chase: irrespective of the final direct impact from Covid-19, I genuinely think that almost every aspect of of current society may be massively-changed by the observances and interpretations we are being required to follow.
The list of specific societal modes which we could logically-predict might change forever may well include:
Maybe I'm over-reacting. I really hope I am. And I'm very (very) tired as I write this. But I'm afraid I might be more right than wrong.
Things are not going to bounce back to what they were: and I do not mean as an actual consequence (so far) of physical disease.
I'm forced to wonder: there's a genuine danger that the prelude 'cure' for this virus might be a lot worse than the disease. And that is before (please, no) any major public order incidents.
What is the world we're making, on the back of this?
I wanted to try and pin-down the idea behind this proposed new thread before it slips my mind, because I feel this is an important & valid set of conjectures.
May I preface this: I'm writing as someone who's only had 1.5 days of 'Working From Home' since the UK lockdown started on 23 Mar, and today's been my first day off in a outdoors/everywhere fortnight. So I'm seeing how a fair chunk of the world is changing shape just now, up close.
Cutting to the chase: irrespective of the final direct impact from Covid-19, I genuinely think that almost every aspect of of current society may be massively-changed by the observances and interpretations we are being required to follow.
The list of specific societal modes which we could logically-predict might change forever may well include:
- absolute control & tracking of all forms of travel anywhere and everywhere
- the overnight end to all paper/coin financial transactions (and the consequent end of all privacy of movement)
- societal shunning for a massive range of transgressions (any hugs/touches between people, individuals risking to be outside for longer than their allocated slot, people daring to talk to each-other in person)
- the end of international holidays, and much business travel
- the sanctification of OCD styles of hygenic practise
- spiralling psycho-social alienation and huge increases in mental illness & suicide
- the counter-intuitive rebirth of commerce locality (high street butchers reporting 800% increases in sales, but coupled with a massive increase in online purchasing; ergo: out-of-town retail parks and hypermarkets are dead)
- the relegation/deprioritisation of almost all environmental improvement programmes
- the end to almost all forms of social interaction perhaps permanently
Maybe I'm over-reacting. I really hope I am. And I'm very (very) tired as I write this. But I'm afraid I might be more right than wrong.
Things are not going to bounce back to what they were: and I do not mean as an actual consequence (so far) of physical disease.
I'm forced to wonder: there's a genuine danger that the prelude 'cure' for this virus might be a lot worse than the disease. And that is before (please, no) any major public order incidents.
What is the world we're making, on the back of this?
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