{"id":1465,"date":"2020-06-06T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T14:26:36","slug":"will-life-change-after-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/will-life-change-after-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Life Change After Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Britons think life will change dramatically after COVID-19 ~ but they are not sure why or why they said it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published: 6 June 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world will never be the same as it was when it wasn\u2019t, and many Britons would not want things to go back the way they were before they weren\u2019t, ie before coronavirus when they had to go to work, a survey for No Real News<\/em> has revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Life Change After Covid-19?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Coronavirus has been a confusing experience, not least because in lockdown many people found themselves in the park, driving to places where they ought not to go ~ especially should their spouse find out or if they worked for the government ~ and sometimes arriving in Skegness when they least felt capable of explaining why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of people suspect that far from separating them from family, friends and loved ones, coronavirus has brought them closer together. This is particularly true for those people who visited their family more just because they were told that they should not, and for people living 45 to a house who know what it is like to travel to the UK in a very small boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The survey has done all sorts of funny things to those who took part in it, from people saying that they will never have to commute again to shops being a thing of the past. However, more than a third thought that this was wishful thinking, particularly those who sell on eBoot, and a large percentage of the same group predicted foreign holidays would be abandoned for a day out on a grass verge at the side of the M25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post-coronavirus world<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Zoom & Skype: what are the symptoms?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

85% concluded that they would not miss socialising by Zoom and Skype, because they did not know what these were, and the remaining 25% knew that they had them but were still learning how to turn them off or, conversely, how to turn their computers on ~ the latter group tended to be in the baby-boomer range, 50 to 65 year olds, who would rather be down the pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent poll by WeBelieveYou for Pie in the Sky found that 70% believed that life would be so different that nothing would be the same as it was when they weren\u2019t drinking, whilst only 15%, those returning to work, thought that the only change would be their underpants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A majority, 2%, ardently wished that they had done better at maths at school. Of this group, 30% said they would like the world to be different, but they did not know how, and the remainder believed that the world they have helped to shape would have been very different indeed had they gone to school instead of mugging people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘… but you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone’<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By far the largest \u2018world changers\u2019 were those who remembered how better life was before social engineering. 45% of these claimed they were building a TARDIS, whilst 25% thought they ought to be quiet, as they wanted their company pension, many of which are police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked what they thought they were supposed to say is the most important issue the world must face when Covid-19 is over, only 10% cited tackling future pandemics as they liked staying at home, 78% said climate change ~ particularly in England where it rains too much ~ and less than half of the number you originally thought of then doubled hadn\u2019t got a clue or couldn\u2019t give a flying f!*? ~ and the greatest percentage of these were university students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorting out terrorism had sunk to an all-time low of 1.5%, possibly due to the fact that no one goes out anymore or, alternatively, that the figure is a false one, and the controversial subject of migration and refugees was odds on favourite depending on Brexit going ahead and Dominic Cummings keeping his job. However, a second poll by TurnLeft for PC UK, put this figure on 1% and noted that within this group 95% were fascists and the remaining 5% waiting to be labelled as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

{At this point articles of this nature typically run out of anything new to say, so they start repeating themselves in order to create more space around which to wrap their advertisements. But we will buck (yes, I said buck) the trend:}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

75% of people who think, think that after the pandemic there will be no change there, then; of those who don\u2019t think, 50% were demonstrating and the remaining 50% were having difficulty fitting the words of their slogans onto their cardboard banners; all were defying calls for social distancing, prompting one sociologist, who has never had a proper job, to suggest that this might be their penultimate demo, the last targeting a government conspiracy where certain groups are incited to demonstrate to ensure that they get coronavirus (source: Mr Anonymous, Antifart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of people thought this last comment spot-on, with a fictional majority invented by the press admitting they were demonstrating but had never left their house. There were signs, however, that some of this group had changed their name to Short and others to Cummings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Life Change After Covid-19?: Conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, of those polled 75% who think things will change significantly believe that they will probably change their minds later and of that there is no doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of those not polled, 100% wondered why, as they don\u2019t agree with any of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of an unspecified group had grandparents who sat on Skegness beach for 20 years waiting for the tide to return from Calais whilst wearing a knotted hanky and eating fish and chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And everyone, including the world and somebody else\u2019s wife, had not a shadow of a doubt, because they never went into that part of town and always looked behind them, that after the pandemic the magnitude shift away from trusting what the media said to relying on notes in Christmas crackers would eventually lead to no more bullshit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100% and the rest of the world could not stop applauding this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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100% agreed that this was 100%.
(Photo credit: kai Stachowiak; https:\/\/www.publicdomainpictures.net\/en\/view-image.php?image=223310&picture=100-percent<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Exciting coronavirus-stimulated bored games<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockdown!<\/a>
Exit Strategy<\/a>
Clueless<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright [Text] \u00a9 2018-2020 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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