Topic: Societal Impact of COVID-19

[TepidT2O]

Have you had a huge upsurge in safeguarding the last few weeks?

A small number in the first couple of weeks...

[Commie Bobbie]

In many aspects, children are the forgotten victims in the pandemic.

A couple of the replies in this thread are laughable.

Without a doubt. But they don't have votes nor influence so in the government's eyes - they don't matter.

[Lotus Eater]

I guess the question is: What will change post Covid:

There was a Guardian article lately that said they think there will be some kind of "Swinging Twenties" after all this is over.
Where society will be very hungry for fun and high times.

I know a lot of people who are biting at the leash - looking to book holidays, concerts and other events

[Shankly998]

I guess the question is: What will change post Covid:

There was a Guardian article lately that said they think there will be some kind of "Swinging Twenties" after all this is over.
Where society will be very hungry for fun and high times.

I know a lot of people who are biting at the leash - looking to book holidays, concerts and other events

Not if a load of people/businesses are broke once the furlough scheme comes to end especially coupled with austerity either through higher taxes or reduced spending to pay back the costs of the crisis.

[RainbowFlick]

Not if a load of people/businesses are broke once the furlough scheme comes to end especially coupled with austerity either through higher taxes or reduced spending to pay back the costs of the crisis.

I think we'll start to see a widening between the 'working class' and a sort of office-working middle-class that probably has been somewhat removed from most of the extremes of the pandemic to be honest. I think airlines will cash in majorly, regardless of the strains it's going to make on certain families and industries.

[Shankly998]

I think we'll start to see a widening between the 'working class' and a sort of office-working middle-class that probably has been somewhat removed from most of the extremes of the pandemic to be honest. I think airlines will cash in majorly, regardless of the strains it's going to make on certain families and industries.

Yes definitely a further widening there as well as widening of the gap between the young and the old given the former have been disproportionately economically affected by the crisis i.e. work in hospitality, firms cutting back on new joiners due to economic uncertainty etc. Air fares will definitely rise as the airlines look to plug holes in their balance sheets.

[conman]

I guess the question is: What will change post Covid:

There was a Guardian article lately that said they think there will be some kind of "Swinging Twenties" after all this is over.
Where society will be very hungry for fun and high times.

I know a lot of people who are biting at the leash - looking to book holidays, concerts and other events

Considering the global economies were on the brink of collapsing before Covid, I can only see the crash being worse when it comes. Add that to the fact that so many businesses will be on their knees, many people will be aprehensive of dining in and many more won't even be able to afford it.

So if there is a return to the roaring 20's, it will be short lived at best. The worst is quite literally yet to come.

[Shankly998]

Considering the global economies were on the brink of collapsing before Covid, I can only see the crash being worse when it comes. Add that to the fact that so many businesses will be on their knees, many people will be aprehensive of dining in and many more won't even be able to afford it.

So if there is a return to the roaring 20's, it will be short lived at best. The worst is quite literally yet to come.

I forsee another lost decade in the UK similar to that following 2008.

[Fromola]

I think we'll start to see a widening between the 'working class' and a sort of office-working middle-class that probably has been somewhat removed from most of the extremes of the pandemic to be honest. I think airlines will cash in majorly, regardless of the strains it's going to make on certain families and industries.

It might be like the 80's, where a lot of people do well out of it and get richer and live the high life, whereas a lot of the younger generation and the working classes are another lost generation.

[Fromola]

Considering the global economies were on the brink of collapsing before Covid, I can only see the crash being worse when it comes. Add that to the fact that so many businesses will be on their knees, many people will be aprehensive of dining in and many more won't even be able to afford it.

So if there is a return to the roaring 20's, it will be short lived at best. The worst is quite literally yet to come.

And don't forget how that decade ended in 1929.

Ultimately the system as we know it in the west; free-market Capitalism, neoliberalism or whatever you want to call it - died in the 2007/08 crash. It's been artificially propped up since.

[conman]

And don't forget how that decade ended in 1929.

Ultimately the system as we know it in the west; free-market Capitalism, neoliberalism or whatever you want to call it - died in the 2007/08 crash. It's been artificially propped up since.

That's precisely how i see it.

[BarryCrocker]

More billionaires created (24) in the UK during Covid-19 then in the previous 30 years according to The Sunday Times. The net wealth of UK billionaires increased 22% while everyone was being furloughed.

[Red-Soldier]

More billionaires created (24) in the UK during Covid-19 then in the previous 30 years according to The Sunday Times. The net wealth of UK billionaires increased 22% while everyone was being furloughed.

The super wealthy generally always profit from disaster. 

Inequity needs to be spoken about in the same breath as climate change/biodiversity loss, in regards to the biggest global threat facing us today!

Environemtal and social justice are two sides of the same coin, you cannot fix one, without solving the other.

We need to adopt a new economic model.  When the pandemic hit, I predicted in the aftermath, we would see super-charged capitalism on steroids.  Nothing has changed my mind since.