It seems to me that people are reacting to the
lockdown in one of two ways. Comfort eating and consoling with alcohol or
turning to excessive exercise. I think we’re going to end up with half the
population obese and unhealthy and the other half super fit.
It amazes me that some people are complaining about
the fact that they’re effectively being paid to stay at home. I guess the
default setting for a large part of the population is being pissed off, even
when a situation doesn’t warrant it. Mind you, most of them seem to be self-employed
people who have always fiddled their tax returns to say they’ve never made a
profit, so now they can’t get any money to support themselves. Sorry – but you
can’t sneakily NOT pay tax and then moan when you don’t get anything back.
I’m starting to think I might be disappointed when everyone
is let out into the world again. I’ve been enjoying the slower pace of life,
and the lack of traffic, and the way that everyone is courteously and patiently
going through their day, not shoving each other out of the way to reach some destination
they don’t even know they’re heading for.
I actually think we might see quite a few people trying
to change they way they live in response to this situation. If you’ve got used
to working from home for three months, are you really going to want to go back
to driving into an office five times a week, adding to the length of your
workday by being on the road for 45 minutes in each direction? I also think there
might be companies that decide they don’t want to keep paying for premises,
when it’s been proved that their workforce can do what they need to do from
home, using their own electricity and internet!
So, what I’m saying is – I think the longer this
goes on, the more likely it is that it will have a profound and lasting effect
on our work habits.
Or maybe I’m wrong, and everyone will be desperate
to get back to what they’ve always known.
I’m sick of every article, podcast, radio show and
TV broadcast being about this bloody virus. And yet here I am, blogging about
it….. HYPOCRITE? ME?
RC 14-4-20
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