In a post-Covid world, things will never be the same again
Staycations, streaming movies and home offices … let us count the Covid-19 hangovers that will be with us well into 2021
03 January 2021 - 00:03
Mask on. Wash your hands. Don't touch your face. Sanitise. Stay home. Don't give hugs. The latter two are probably the hardest of all to get used to, but there's very little doubt that Covid-19 has fundamentally changed how we go about our daily lives. From travel to work culture, large gatherings and how we consume media, many trends that were already in motion seem to have accelerated, triggering what experts estimate to be a decade's worth of innovation as the virus wreaks havoc across the world with very little prospect of containment in the absence of a vaccine being made available everywhere...
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