I think very little will survive in the high street, virus or not ..... just things that need the actual physical presence of the customer ....eating, drinking (for those times when a takeaway is socially a bit flat) ....hairdressers, coffee shops, nail bars, tattoo parlours ...as we get more at ease with internet banking even the banks and building societies will leave (with maybe a 'main branch' serving a wide area ) ..... maybe the odd niche specialist (I can think of a boot shop in London that only does British made boots ...has a cult following and it's location and number of potential customers in its catchment seems to allow it to survive ) ...... but not a good time to be a commercial landlord with a portfolio heavy in shops.

Or maybe the whole thing will switch over to the 'night out' trade ..... dead during the day and alive at night with small clubs,eateries and bars ....sort of a seaside 'golden mile' without the sea ..... catering to the saturday Night Crowd and the bored in need of diversion. Certainly based on my early life I would never have predicted the explosion in 'eating out' in the last 25 years.

K