Adapting to useless

Purely a personal perspective this, but the coronavirus debacle has changed our lifestyles here in our little corner of sunny Derbyshire. We have adapted to the police state shambles in a number of ways and some of those adaptations are likely to be permanent. We are not likely to go back to where we were - not entirely.

Shopping is likely to remain as a permanent switch to online apart from those things we have to see and try on such as clothing and shoes. Even here we already buy some clothing online. This means visits to our local shopping centres are certain to be limited compared to life before the debacle. We don’t miss those visits and are not going back to old shopping habits. Saves time and fuel too.

We only took one holiday this year where normally we would have about four, but we don’t find ourselves yearning for more. Maybe we will drift back to taking the usual number, but it will be no surprise if we don’t. Fewer holidays could become a permanent change. Maybe fewer but longer, we don’t know.

Food and drink. Our eating and drinking habits have changed. Not massively, but because we do all our food shopping online and spend less time on it, we find it easier to try new recipes. I’m not sure why this is, but it seems to be so.

Because of restrictions on dropping into a café we drink much more coffee at home. I don’t see us going back to old habits on that one either, although we’ll revisit favourite cafes after the lockdown nonsense finally ends. Possibly not as often though.

We are likely to be more prepared for the unexpected too. Larger stocks of supplies including food, medical supplies and maybe some emergency lighting in case of prolonged power cuts. Not so much because of an increased sense of insecurity but because the government and official bodies have proved quite conclusively how useless they really are. In the end we even adapt to useless.