8, gardens, chickens and other forms of self sustenance. What a perfect season for those who do have time on their hands.

And land. Don't forget land.

I hope.
We're miles ahead of a lot of people since we already know how to garden and cook from scratch. But now everyone wants to make their own bread (and cakes, presumably) so flour is hard to come by, which isn't good for me since I already know how (made three loaves already in the last week and a half or so) and baking is what I do.
You can get decent coffee from Costco; whole bean, grind your own; who needs Starbucks anyway.

I only get my hair cut about once a year anyway. I wish I could dye my hair purple again but my mom would complain and I don't want to fight about it.

society is enormously non-homogeneous and GDP is total bullshit, but I doubt that we can expect the populace to catch on to that. When looking at the likelihood that current behaviors will become habits you need to consider some of that variability.

Those who have lost their jobs versus those who haven't.
Those who will get their jobs back versus those who won't.
How comfortable their incomes were before and during the crisis.
How dependent upon outside services they were and are.

A huge chunk of the populace never learned to cook and are still not doing so, but finding work-arounds, and they are likely to go right back to their old ways. I know some of them.

Many are quasi extroverts and other directed whose social life and "life" is centered around the job, the club, restaurants and bars, lunches and luncheons, etc. Only some of them will wind up involuntarily weaned from that lifestyle unless they have lost their jobs.

We have a garden; Nobody we know who doesn't already have one is starting one or planning one, though some bemoan their lack of space, time, skills, energy or whatever and allege that they "wish they could" ... (This also applies to cooking and baking to a large degree as well)

The US populace is readily sold and readily follows. Marketing and Advertising is one of our bigger industries. We have been being molded into consumers since the fifties. That's 70 years of conditioning. "They" are much more expert as selling and behavior management than the bulk of the populace is at resisting their efforts.

It would be nice to see radical change, but I see and hear a lot of the populcae simply yearning for and craving normalcy as they know it.

be well and have a good one.

That’s why this is happening. People are becoming more introspective and will begin to make changes toward a more loving society. We are in this until late summer, early fall, so habits/life will undoubtedly change.

in the United States who will be completely dispossessed. Landlords will kick them out onto the streets; they will form vast, rioting mobs which will overwhelm police abilities to turn them back. Martial law will be declared; but the Armed Forces will be decimated by further outbreaks of COVID-19.

Nobody will care about savings, fancy coffees, exercise, or styles. What will matter will be the creation, from scratch, of inclusive social orders. Maybe a few chicken coops can contribute to those orders.

One of the things I’ve noticed for myself and the people I’m closest to, is that we are reaching out as much as each us is comfortable with at the moment. In other words, maybe we’re learning to be more ‘real’ with each other. I have no idea whether the practices we are following during this time will be sustained (at least to some degree) in whatever the future holds, but for now it gives me some comfort.