There will be less old people so the burden on the NHS will be lower.
There will be less old people so the pension pot situation will improve
The community council in my village have set up a scheme so we can all help the elderly and infirm, whether that be getting their shopping or prescriptions from town, or whatever. It’s really heartwarming to see the response.
It’ll mostly kill old people, so we’ll be rid of most of the boomers who messed the world up.
Let's hope it knows which were the "wrong-uns".
There will be less old people so the burden on the NHS will be
Fewer FFS, fewer. There is no hope.
How things change... I mentioned a few of the above points (all valid) a week ago in the main Corona thread I got a warning email and my post removed.
Anyway.
I think possible positives:
Brexit will be delayed and a timely lesson on cooperation between Nations will be learned.
The polarised / left v Right tribal politics of the last 5+ years will come to an abrupt end.
A huge reduction in general cynicism towards experts, good data and convenient lies to counter inconvenient truths. People can learn the easy way and accept facts, or frankly they can say “it’s a load of old bollocks” as they always do when something happens they don’t want to accept and get sick.
But as I type this I’m in the Cafe of a supermarket in Bridgend watching muppets load their cars with bags of toilet rolls and wondering if after the recent Floods and now this ‘plague’ maybe it really is the end of days and we deserve it.
All these cancelled flights and a bit of population reduction will cheer up the environmentalists.
Best of all no sports on telly
Not so sure! Saturday MOTD was replaced by Mrs Brown's Boys.If Corona don't getcha then that dross will certainly finish you off.
There will be less old people so the pension pot situation will improve
It did occur to me that the big insurers might be a good investment as once all the short term hits filter out, their long term exposure to annuities will be reduced which will mean they can reduce reserves by upping dividends.....
Hopefully kill off all the ****s that have bought all the toliet paper; pasta; rice etc for no reason.
I've really upped my turbo cider efforts to ensure a good stockpile, so I'm hoping to be a master brewer of tramp juice by the time this has blown over.
Hopefully the value of the NHS should be clear by then.
A fugitive boss of the calabrese Mafia was arrested, on Friday, thanks to the lockdown imposed by the Italian government to contain the coronavirus.
Cesare Antonio Cordì, 42, emerging boss of the Locri clan, in Calabria, has been wanted since last July and accused of fraudulent money transfer. The man was hiding in a villa in the countryside of Locri. The police have been busy, for days, on the checks to enforce the lockdown and the ban on going out, except in cases of extreme necessity. The day before, they stopped a man with shopping bags who justified himself saying he was only bringing the groceries to a friend who could not go out.
The police were suspicious of the fact that, in that area, almost all the villas were uninhabited. In the following hours, they followed him and found the shopping was destined for the boss Cordì.
To arrest him, the intervention of a special military unit was necessary. It consists of elite and highly trained soldiers, known as the Carabinieri Heliborne Squadron, or the Cacciatori, literally: the hunters.
According to investigators, Cordì is a mobster on the rise in the fierce Locri clan and the subject of a recent investigation by the Calabrian prosecutors.
Thousands of citizens have been reported for violating the ban on staying at home, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior.
In Sciacca, Sicily, a Covid-19 positive man who was forbidden from going out, was discovered by the police, while shopping. The Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation and accused the man of “aiding the epidemic”. If convicted, he faces 12 years in prison.
The community council in my village have set up a scheme so we can all help the elderly and infirm, whether that be getting their shopping or prescriptions from town, or whatever. It’s really heartwarming to see the response.
My old boss used to be head of the Parrish council and generally a good bloke wanting to see the community come together to help each other.
During the floods (the village flooded a lot) we'd always take an afternoon to fill sandbags and load them onto pallets to be distributed around the village. Every year a poster would go up asking for more volunteers, but no one ever did turn up to help, they'd tell us how great it was to see the village pulling together etc, but they never helped. So we stopped!
I'd expect a week or two of people taking shopping round to their neighbours before lazy sods catch on that it's cheaper than paying for delivery and taking advantage.
I like personal space, but this was ridiculous for lunchtime. And I'm not really sure it counts as a good thing (although it was for us) - the poor sods that work there 🙁
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The end of shit hipster beards?! Your face mask won't fit with those whiskers sir...
The end of shit hipster beards?! Your face mask won’t fit with those whiskers sir…
It's microbiome keeps my immune system in tip top shape read to fight infections though 🧙♂️
Normalisation of homeworking and reduction in rush hour traffic
Except, of course, for the many, many jobs and industries that require people to operate machinery, serve people, etc, etc, etc.
Where I work, they often hold Skype meetings across the five national sites, but the nature of the work requires roughly 100 or so people to be on site, most are skilled car bodywork and paint technicians; not exactly a WFH situation...
People learning to cook from fresh ingredients a bit more and to try new foods.
Something my partner and I do most of the time. We have very little food wastage.
Mainly because I enjoy her cooking so much there’s never anything left on my plate!
I'll learn web development and cycle more
Actually, who am I kidding, I'll finally complete Netflix
A couple of years of this will see the planet smiling (if war is avoided)
Old lonely peeps might find a helpful neighbour or 2
Universal wage trials
Fragility of the current system completely exposed
People realise they don't need so much stuff
Communities supporting one another
Liverpool will never win the PL
Old lonely peeps might find a helpful neighbour or 2
I'm guessing that the old lady who lives opposite me is sick of people banging her door, asking if she needs anything. It takes her ten minutes to answer if she's upstairs, by which time whoever was knocking has gone.
I think people have been swear of the fragility of our system for some time, but that doesn't mean it's good for it to collapse, unless you are of the destroy and rebuild school of thought.
I am hoping for a greater acceptance of home working for those whose jobs are possible to do with some level of homeworking.
Everything else I think is wishful thinking.
Hopefully the value of the NHS should be clear by then.
Who will be left with the money to buy it?
If a vaccine does become available, the whole world will be queing for it. Might shut the anti-vaxers up.
This is going to save me a lot of money - had loads of weekends away planned (now all cancelled - music festival, Brewdog AGM etc) and was about to book/pay for a holiday in Spain.
All that cash can now go to my campervan fund.
No pub or restaurant trips either. So home cooking.
In general, it might get more people in to going for walks/bike rides?
I’m hoping to be a master brewer of tramp juice
Trampoline?
Normalisation of homeworking and reduction in rush hour traffic
In honesty, I've been arguing this for a while now. For a lot of professions there's increasingly little reason to trail into an office every day. Other than "for a bit of company" many desk-based jobs - mine included - can be done on the surface of the moon for the difference it makes so long as you have a telephone and an Internet connection. The only reason for these people to go to an office is because we've always done it that way (and as I've often said this is the worst reason to do anything) or because staff aren't trusted (in which case you've got the wrong staff).
I do wonder whether a successful mass WFH movement might persist to an extent, employers suddenly wondering why they're paying for a big building with a hundred people in it. Can but hope.
Something else I've just thought of.
Once the novelty of binge-watching the entirety of Breaking Bad in one sitting or lying in bed contemplating whether or not to go for your seventh J Arthur of the day wears off, maybe people will use the time to learn new skills or get jobs done that they've been putting off for years. I've seen a few folk on Facebook talking about learning a language or a musical instrument.
Probably wishful thinking for most though, given the amount of bog roll people are buying.
Eurovision Song Contest cancelled - hooray!
Eastenders stopped filming and Venice's canals cleaner, plus a noticable reduction in traffic and associated environmental impact.
Normalisation of homeworking and reduction in rush hour traffic
Take a major investment in IT for it to work smoothly for a lot of places, mine included as it's just not working.
On that,
It's finally pushed my workplace into migrating over to the new VPN system that we've had for customers for years but never used internally. Which is good, cos the old one was on its arse yesterday.
I had exactly the same thought yesterday when someone posted up their screenshot of Elite Dangerous with 2000+ hrs logged. Never gonna happen 😂😂😂maybe people will use the time to learn new skills or get jobs done that they’ve been putting off for years. I’ve seen a few folk on Facebook talking about learning a language or a musical instrument.
IR35 off payroll private sector changes postponed for a year 😉
Not scrapped, but it's a good thing for now in my book.
Trampoline?
Tramp-o-wine
On the news they said that the iplayer was going to have a lot more content available such like ISIHAC. WIN!!
The village shop is updating with deliveries and putting aside bread or whatever for people to pick up later
On top of that, my lads paper round has got two additional deliveries, as have the other rounds.
My lad hopes they survive till the Christmas tip season 🙄
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Cheers, that's me sorted now. Can hear again decent Lionel Blair comments as opposed to the post Yew Tree tame versions!
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but this will be the making of the BBC.
These next few months will show people how good it is, the quality of journalism there and why we should value i.
A slightly personal one here:
One of my colleagues is being taught the value of personal space! He is a total moron anyway but he has literally no concept of personal space during normal times, standing right next to you when he's talking to you etc. One of my other colleagues has just text me to say that he's just been suspended for still failing to observe the 1-2m rule the boss is implementing. Over the course of an hour he was warned multiple times with no effect so he's been sent home. He's not very popular so it's been a popular move judging by the judicious use of celebratory emoji's in said text.
Something positive from the lockin here in Spain is that I'm spending a lot more time with my wife and daughter, we're having lunch and dinner together every day - something that usually only happens at weekends.
I'm also catching up on a lot of reading, all those books bought on a whim and sitting on the Kindle unread...
I'm liking this news from the Grauniad
"Louis Vuitton owner LVMH has converted its perfume manufacturing at all its Christian Dior, Guerlain and Givenchy facilities to the production of sanitiser and giving to hospitals in France for free.
Spanish fashion chain Zara is turning over its logistics and manufacturing facilities to delivering 300,000 surgical masks by the end of the week to the health authorities.
It is also using its networks to source medical grade fabric for hospital gowns."
There is some good stuff out there
Managed to park on the 4th floor today, not the 7th 👍
Feral kids had come into the city centre and racing down the ramps in the car park on bikes as well!
Share value for Zoom has increased nearly 250% ... the company hit jackpot. 🙄
Free drinks for the NHS at certain outlets.
Oh wait! 😀
