How are people coping?

Family and friends are already very anxious. Self-employed people are feeling the pinch.
In a way it's a consolation to be a "poor old retired person" - less to lose, I guess, and I always expected to be poor when I was old (from having been a stay-at-home wife and mother for a number of years).

People are saying to me "What will it be like?" Us oldies can just about remember World War 2: now THAT would make you anxious. Sons and daughters going off to war, cities bombed, food rationed. Will this be worse? It may be. It could be as bad or worse as the prewar depression with huge unemployment and terrible inequality. In many ways in the UK we've grown up spoiled, let ourselves be convinced that buying stuff makes you a good person, and making huge amounts of money makes you a better one, and what's more an important person. I cant imagine what kind of transition it will take to undo those assumptions.