When this is over will it be back to normal

 I am sixty five years old. I my lifetime I have seen strikes blackouts mines disappear and several recessions. We have not been in the EU joined the EU and now got BREXIT done. I have seen interest rates on mortgages skyrocket and collapse, interest on savings ten percent and now savings are worthless. The one constant throughout all of these and many other disasters that thankfully I have managed to forget about is that day follows night. I and hopefully you will wake up tomorrow. I used to work with a Londoner, a real old cockney and his mantra was “ there’s two certainties in this world. Rent day and Death “ and when you boil it down he God rest his soul was right. We all have bills mortgages car loans rent commitments etc and everyone alive will eventually die! 

So getting back to normal! What’s normal? In my time on earth boom and bust has been a seven year cycle! I don’t mean that in the biblical sense I mean it in reality. Every seven years we seem to have had some disaster. And here we are again in the middle of the biggest disaster that has occurred in a hundred years. It is thought that the end of the Great War bought about the spread of the pandemic named as the “Spanish Flu” and it killed an estimated 50 million worldwide. The current COVID-19 pandemic has so far killed over two million people. But it looks as if it may be sticking around for a while so even with a vaccine it looks like we are stuck with it.

So what will back to normal look like? I have no way of knowing, my Crystal Ball 🔮 has got a flat battery 🔋 so anything I type here is just the speculation of my deranged mind. I can tell you here in England that we won’t be visiting Debenhams but who else will be closing the doors never to be reopening them? Well today has seen a first the stock market 📈 has been in turmoil of small investors beating the Hedge funds. I can’t say I understand it but I know some people who have played the game company share game today and come out on the winning team. So social media looks as if it’s going to feature heavily in “the new normal”. It recently played a large part in the riots in Washington DC so let’s hope political riots are not featuring in “the new normal “

I have mentioned recession in the early part of the post and I don’t expect us to get out of this pandemic until we have suffered another one! You may think I am being negative but my take on everything is we ain’t seen nothing yet.