Positives Of The Pandemic

[livingabortion]

This could go in the 'Caronavirus Thread' but  I thought one focusing on the positives would be good:


1.  A lot less pollution being created just to traveling.
2. "Tele-medicine" has been a benefit in processing G.P. Appointments where people have to appointment by phone
3.  In housing 5 it's reckoned that prices will fall between 5 and 10 per cent.
4. It will teach us to be less materialistic and do with less, (which we practically can), and focus on more important things, such as helping people.
5. Working from home will bring an end to or a huge drop in commuting and the rush hour problem.


A Bonus: No bottom feeder T.V. shows such as Dickheads on an Island, Dickheads In A House, Dickhead's in a Jungle etc, no shit "reality" shows.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Don't have any faith in any of those. The main positive I see is that face masks are a great replacement for beer goggles; far more beors around when everyone has half their face concealed.

[astfgyl]

Lol I noticed that as well, rakes of dodgy ones suddenly looking grand

[astfgyl]

This could go in the 'Caronavirus Thread' but  I thought one focusing on the positives would be good:


1.  A lot less pollution being created just to traveling.
2. "Tele-medicine" has been a benefit in processing G.P. Appointments where people have to appointment by phone
3.  In housing 5 it's reckoned that prices will fall between 5 and 10 per cent.
4. It will teach us to be less materialistic and do with less, (which we practically can), and focus on more important things, such as helping people.
5. Working from home will bring an end to or a huge drop in commuting and the rush hour problem.


A Bonus: No bottom feeder T.V. shows such as Dickheads on an Island, Dickheads In A House, Dickhead's in a Jungle etc, no shit "reality" shows.

I started a Good News thread back in March or April for the likes of this stuff, but it died a pretty quick death as there really wasn't a lot of good stuff to report beyond the few you've mentioned there

[Blackout]

Probably exposing the idiocy of some people. People a few weeks ago were shouting "clap for frontline workers" while going to house parties.

[livingabortion]

This could go in the 'Caronavirus Thread' but  I thought one focusing on the positives would be good:


1.  A lot less pollution being created just to traveling.
2. "Tele-medicine" has been a benefit in processing G.P. Appointments where people have to appointment by phone
3.  In housing 5 it's reckoned that prices will fall between 5 and 10 per cent.
4. It will teach us to be less materialistic and do with less, (which we practically can), and focus on more important things, such as helping people.
5. Working from home will bring an end to or a huge drop in commuting and the rush hour problem.


A Bonus: No bottom feeder T.V. shows such as Dickheads on an Island, Dickheads In A House, Dickhead's in a Jungle etc, no shit "reality" shows.

I started a Good News thread back in March or April for the likes of this stuff, but it died a pretty quick death as there really wasn't a lot of good stuff to report beyond the few you've mentioned there

AH! Well, this will probably go the same way quick enough so.

[astfgyl]

Probably exposing the idiocy of some people. People a few weeks ago were shouting "clap for frontline workers" while going to house parties.

They might have misunderstood it as "get the clap for the frontline workers"

[astfgyl]

AH! Well, this will probably go the same way quick enough so.

Sure maybe not, there has been a lot of time and things since then. Some funnies as well and a lot of surreal, too.

[livingabortion]

That's true 

[leatherface]

Where I am this has been going on since March. Now it's in phase 4. This means that now absolutely nobody gives a flying sh.t about any virus and in many minds 'it's over'. I respect peoples wish to get back to normal but just forgetting about it completely is deplorable. No distancing, people freely mingling, events where nobody wears masks  etc. I feel like I am in a minority expressing any doubt or worry about it.

[Emphyrio]

I read the figures daily on the journal and the amount of people just saying fuckit, we have to learn to live with it.... Maybe I'm just a hypochondriac but I don't want to be around people in an enclosed environment. This is gonna be a non runner in a classroom. My da was just diagnosed with cancer so, come September, are visits from me and his grandson gonna be extra risky?

[livingabortion]

I read the figures daily on the journal and the amount of people just saying fuckit, we have to learn to live with it.... Maybe I'm just a hypochondriac but I don't want to be around people in an enclosed environment. This is gonna be a non runner in a classroom. My da was just diagnosed with cancer so, come September, are visits from me and his grandson gonna be extra risky?

They could be. You both might have to get tested, (which I heard you can now pay get done), to make sure you're ok, and also visiting time could be more limited.

[livingabortion]

There is another thread for this called "Caronavirus", I know it looks like the bad outweighs the good on this but I was trying to do an upbeat thread on it.


https://forum.metalwarfare.com/index.php?topic=1101.0



Cheers.

[Airneanach]

I read the figures daily on the journal and the amount of people just saying fuckit, we have to learn to live with it.... Maybe I'm just a hypochondriac but I don't want to be around people in an enclosed environment. This is gonna be a non runner in a classroom. My da was just diagnosed with cancer so, come September, are visits from me and his grandson gonna be extra risky?

It's different tolerance levels, and I completely respect that.

You're always going to find that case spotlighted in the news of someone with no pre-existing conditions getting flatlined by this thing. That deserves to be known, and it's also the news being the news.  But at the end of the day these cases for me are the extraordinary exceptions rather than the rule. As a healthy 29 year old I'm personally willing to socialise in large groups, enjoy going to a gig etc when given the okay again.

I understand that also makes me more of a risk to other folks, but provided social distancing in shops, mandatory masks etc are on the table then the transmission risks there should be minimum, leaving the crowds and the enclosed spaces an "opt in" option. I personally think this is the way we'll have to go sooner rather than later.

I'm also self aware enough that there's an inherent selfishness to this approach, perhaps, and that rationalising it sounds cold as fuck on occasion. I know all we have to do is stay home and chill. I know it's not really a war as such. I know we can  live like this. But the sum total of economic surplus, community and joy to come from everything we can no longer do is too irresistible for me.  Do I think we can postpone it on a timescale of years - multiple - until something with this kind of mortality rate sods off?

Not really, no.

On topic, the main positive for me has been working from home. It's not for everyone, but I never want to go back. I moonlight as a productive office employee to make my paper, and I can get my job done comfortably and productively from the living room. Cat behind me, missus upstairs, better air, better food, no public transport. I don't need the 'office culture'.

I do think we'll go back to most of our shitty habits, but one huge positive that I imagine will stick is how much we've realised that getting an air fair to shake some hands and sign a contract is ridiculous. A lot of what we can do, we can do from our own spaces. Long may it stick.

[Eoin McLove]

All the extra elbow room.