Snorvey wrote:A Channel 4 programme just finished suggested that, after the virus, the UK will be a far more sociable place. We'll help each other more. Things will be fairer and we'll appreciate the low paid essential services, from carers to bin men much more.
We'll holiday at home and shop more locally in smaller shops.
Lot of wishful thinking from the class we used to call Guardian Readers. It might have the opposite effect: you provoke Daily Mail attitudes by taking people for granted, and taxing them to pay for others to have things they'll never be able to afford for themselves. We have a strong and partially-true narrative now about generational unfairness, which could lead to a serious loss of public support for some of the things we do for pensioners and which might be strongly reinforced by current events, both covid and brexit, that damage younger folks' life prospects.
The most interesting outcome could be to open debate on allowing zombies to die once their life is over. It's the inevitable outcome society has been in Denial about over the "crisis in care". Focus care resources on those who still have capacity to benefit from it!
Boldly, they also suggested that the tradional party of small state government will change forever into the exact opposite.
They were firmly on that path before covid. But "forever" is nonsense: we can't predict where they'll be in another generation.
