Loadsa stuff,
Finally sending all them foreign nurses and doctors home will.....
Oops, thought I was on daily mail forum.
For me the virus crisis has shown how completely irrelevant todays celebrity culture actually is , which is a good thing in a society thats become fixated on getting famous quick.
On a completely selfish level - it has finally made me contact my GP about my ridiculously high blood pressure (as possible high risk?), tried fixing it with diet and exercise but her words of "its that high that no amount of diet and exercise will bring it to safe levels" helped me accept I need help (tablets)
2 - have discovered the joy of the local woods, great place to walk with the little one and looks Ok to ride as well 😉
we should get a rebate on Car and Home insurance policies, RTA claims will be down and Burglaries will be down (can't go robbing houses if everyone is at home), though I doubt it. Perhaps if the daily fail kicks up a stink when avia post a huge jump in pre tax profits.
The rise of the STW Zwift gang!
Maybe the remoaners will finally see that the EU is a complete and utter waste of money and Brussels is only interested in preserving their own gravy train rather than helping any of its members in dire need like Italy and Spain.
+1 Needs to be said.
as a city-dweller, it certainly smells different.
Without having to go to the waters edge, I can now smell the salt and seaweed wafting in from the Clyde estuary.
I see long term reasons to be positive once we emerge from, not just this crisis, but the economic depression that will follow:
Cruises - not sure they will be in demand as much.
Long haul travel - less highly geared operators, higher cost, lower utilisation.
Supply chain diversity - More uk onshoring
Oil prices - decimated, unviable fields may mean electric vehicles uptake sooner
Somebody has probably mentioned something like this.
My work schedule has me out of the UK at the same time as all the MTB events I’d like to do this year around the North East. Ard Rock, Ard Moors, Northern Bezerker etc...
With luck, the dates will change, as opposed to cancelation, and I may be able to go!
Or, as I am currently trapped on the ship, racking up extra leave, I might be able to go if the dates miraculously stay the same!
One good thing may be that the government realises that the health of the nation is also their health.
There will be less talk of culling the herd, especially if we lose a few of the Establishment.
We may see a revived NHS.
Contingency planning - and strategic action plan in place; approved and ready to go.
Think about what could go wrong; if it happened, could we and would we respond?
Critical review of (fallacy of) just in time supply chain.
Linked to ^^^ an understanding that cheapest isn't best - leading to a more integrated supply chain for UK manufacturing.
Higher pay and more recognition for 'low paid, low skilled' workforce; as is now becoming appreciated, without them we would be royally trucked.
Proper funding of NHS; empowered medicos with much less power for 'the management'.
Growth of armed forces; they have been hollowed out by decades of cuts. For years we have blathered about the strength of our armed forces. Stop lying. We need serious investment.
So much more but....just opened the bar recently and I'm still serving myself.
As well as the decrease in air pollution on my street in the southside of Edinburgh, they have just announced a decrease in luvvy pollution - the festival is cancelled! I've had enough of it - it was fun for the first 3 years, but the last 17 years of getting harangued by self-important twits the second I walk out my front door was insufferable.
Its going to be great to have the city being "normal" for one August. I might actually get a seat in a beer garden!
Though this will not be good for a lot of businesses who would rely on the festival trade to make lots of money, especially since other trade in the year will be bad.
God, imagine if they cancel the horrific street party and I can go for a walk around town on hogmany!
These events were distorting the city.
If you ever get stuck at any maths content, there are amazing maths lectures done by an mit professor in YouTube. I could never be bothered to go to my lectures so I sat on my boxers and listened to these instead.
I see long term reasons to be positive once we emerge from, not just this crisis, but the economic depression that will follow:
Cruises – not sure they will be in demand as much.
Long haul travel – less highly geared operators, higher cost, lower utilisation.
Supply chain diversity – More uk onshoring
Oil prices – decimated, unviable fields may mean electric vehicles uptake sooner
Ive been on the receiving end of several articles and I for which describes our new world order as a reflection of an 80’s sci fi show - high tech on the one hand, more basic lifestyles on the other.
Capitlism and materialism in local industry defers to need of lifestyle elements e.g. medical; Business Class air travel rare, expensive and less available to the middle classes, EV ramped up after the positive pollution rate, less travel as we work from home more, more tech for phones and video working, higher taxation and a shuffle down the order of the level of disposable income, DIY vs new purchase and so on.
A very different balance of technology and sustainability in our lives in general.
I may have missed something (I dont watch every gov briefing) but Priti Patel seems to have been furloughed......
If people have less expendable income, hopefully there's less dogs about. If there's less dogs, there's less dog owners, as they're the real pests.
TiRed
SubscriberWe will come to appreciate in the UK, that we have not been paying enough for healthcare.
This is what I hope for. I really hope it happens but with this goverment...
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