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From a purely IT perspective, a lot more infrastructure to do with working from home is being thoroughly tested. Knowing how large numbers of home workers cope with the isolation and the infrastructure available within their companies could lead to even more people working away from company offices. This in turn could lead to better comms infrastructure, but with reduce commuters to major centres of work, the public transport companies may have to scale back. In turn less sandwich shops, less taxis, etc.

People going through this sort of experience I hope will lead to people taking on a greater expectation of the importance of good hygiene. When the flu seasons starts again at the end of the year this experience will hopefully still be strong in people's minds and they'll be more careful about simply ignoring it.

As Winter comes back around at the end of the year I think people may start to change certain habits, more people wearing masks in public as annual flu rises again, people less willing to shake hands or kiss each other openly if they're not already intimate. Many European cultures regard the touch of cheek-on-cheek to be a mark of affection among friends, will that action simply start to die out as people are reluctant to touch each other.

Ultimately you can't tell, but I think post-COVID will certainly a very intersting time for the social behaviour observers and the stats collectors. Interesting times for sure.