What would you like to do when the pandemic is over?

[Taylor]

When this is done, I am going to do what I had planned to be doing this week - take a week-long holiday in Ireland and eat in Irish restaurants.

Good for you Rois, I hope most people to this. I closed our we shop in town last week (ice-cream parlour) and gave away 160-170 litres of ice-cream to the elderly and people in isolation free of charge. When this is all over I hope the people come back to support the small local businesses who have contributed to their local community during these tough times.

Hope you put that up on Facebook & Twitter..........

[Milltown Row2]

It's going to be weird going to large events again. Sports events, conferences, cinema, theatre, just about everything that we do in proximity to each other. It's going to be hard to get back into it when we're now used to keeping six feet apart from total strangers on the street. The whole world is going to be traumatised by this.

Surely when it's over there will be a proper vaccine, and  hopefully that will give confidence to people to interact again.

Was strange seeing our best friends there.. they were walking their dog and it was really odd not being us and standing across the street talking to each other, when the natural thing to do was have a hug and be have a proper catch up.

I wonder will the guys who don't have their kids vaccinated be keeping that rule going or will the Gov's enforce a vaccine procedure for everyone?

I've found the antivaxxers to be a bit quiet of late. I wonder if they're re-thinking their position or just trying to find a way to spin this to bolster their existing beliefs. Most likely the latter.

I have one friend who's an antivaxxer (does a bit of work as a chiropractor, funny the amount of overlap between those two groups) and he posted an article a few weeks ago saying that the threat of a pandemic was overstated, that there was no need to panic, that the regular flu kills more people, etc. He's gone a bit quiet on that now, but he hasn't taken the post down. I've a good mind to go back there and ask him for his latest view just for divilment.

Just a little dig wouldn't be to bad

[Captain Obvious]

Only thing I have noticed is how empty the A&E departments are now. It clearly shows how many non emergency issues the A&E departments were having to deal with on a daily basis.

People were treating A&E like a GP office. Last time I took m to A&E with a heart condition we were sitting for over 8 hours. She had been seen but as non wards were available we had to wait in the reciotion Area.

I saw a large family of about 7 eating, drinking and laughing the whole time I was there. Still couldn't figure out why the emergency was or who was actually in to be treated.

In reality the sad thing is that in about 4 weeks after this has settled everything will go back to normal.

The A&Es in the island of Ireland was filled with hypochondriacs.

[HiMucker]

Only thing I have noticed is how empty the A&E departments are now. It clearly shows how many non emergency issues the A&E departments were having to deal with on a daily basis.

People were treating A&E like a GP office. Last time I took m to A&E with a heart condition we were sitting for over 8 hours. She had been seen but as non wards were available we had to wait in the reciotion Area.

I saw a large family of about 7 eating, drinking and laughing the whole time I was there. Still couldn't figure out why the emergency was or who was actually in to be treated.

In reality the sad thing is that in about 4 weeks after this has settled everything will go back to normal.

The A&Es in the island of Ireland was filled with hypochondriacs.

There is definitely a fair bit of that. Same as at the doctors

[Aughafad]

Keep the boycott going of the companies who screwed over their employees and those who exploited the virus for their own gain

[Milltown Row2]

Close down ports and airports for the next pandemic, if you're out of the country sit it out elsewhere for three weeks 

[marty34]

It's going to be weird going to large events again. Sports events, conferences, cinema, theatre, just about everything that we do in proximity to each other. It's going to be hard to get back into it when we're now used to keeping six feet apart from total strangers on the street. The whole world is going to be traumatised by this.

Funny I was thinking about that this morning.

You wonder how all this will end up - will there be a certain date where the governments will say - right, on the 15th of ............, everybody can go back about theiir normal business or will it be a phased in type of thing?

[Solo_run]

It's going to be weird going to large events again. Sports events, conferences, cinema, theatre, just about everything that we do in proximity to each other. It's going to be hard to get back into it when we're now used to keeping six feet apart from total strangers on the street. The whole world is going to be traumatised by this.

Funny I was thinking about that this morning.

You wonder how all this will end up - will there be a certain date where the governments will say - right, on the 15th of ............, everybody can go back about theiir normal business or will it be a phased in type of thing?

Phased in. The cases will eventually drop but measures will still be required to stop a second wave.

International travel will change forever and it should. New measures will be put in place and short to medium term travelling will be expensive

Working from home will become a new norm... Perhaps not every day of the week but scheduled work from home will be factored in.

[illdecide]

When this is done, I am going to do what I had planned to be doing this week - take a week-long holiday in Ireland and eat in Irish restaurants.

Good for you Rois, I hope most people to this. I closed our we shop in town last week (ice-cream parlour) and gave away 160-170 litres of ice-cream to the elderly and people in isolation free of charge. When this is all over I hope the people come back to support the small local businesses who have contributed to their local community during these tough times.

Hope you put that up on Facebook & Twitter..........

Cheers...yeah we did put it on Facebook