So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

Ten of Swords

Fish can be seen in the Venice canals again,

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-51943104/coronavirus-venice-canals-clearer-after-lockdown

BetterWay

• Number of recoveries
• Declining numbers
• Anything similar to the above

Can we put them all here please? With well sourced links. Please double check your links and actually fully read the articles.



The main daily threads, although useful for information, aren't doing any of our anxiety levels any favours.

Thelonious Monk

If we ever recover the housing crisis won't be such a crisis any more with lots of immigrants leaving

pinkyeye

TheBoyConor wrote: »

I hope property prices will plummet either through lack of buying power from people laid off or through the impending mass die off of elderly house blockers.

What a horrible horrible post.

thequarefellow

TheBoyConor wrote: »

I hope property prices will plummet either through lack of buying power from people laid off or through the impending mass die off of elderly house blockers.

I hope you never get to own your own home.

Wibbs

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Fish can be seen in the Venice canals again,

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-51943104/coronavirus-venice-canals-clearer-after-lockdown

Actually T, I'm fairly sure that's another smaller island in the lagoon(whose name escapes), has very colourfully painted houses. The waters there were always much cleaner than Venice itself. I was there in the 90's and noticed it even then. I think because there's very little traffic, certainly no gondolas and the water seems to have more flow to it. So seems like "fake news". Though I would expect the Venetian waterways to be in much better fettle without the usual mad clamour of tourists.

osarusan

Haven't read the full thread so it may have been mentioned, but hopefully the manner in which hospital A&E overcrowding resolved itself, and became public knowledge, will mean it won't return after the virus has been dealt with.

Also, hopefully the economic slowdown will provide useful (real rather than hypothetical) data on industrial pollution and the impact that green industry might have.

fryup

RTE to broadcast daily Mass, thats Mass everyday folks

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0318/1123968-rte-to-air-daily-mass-during-covid-19-emergency/

god i love Mass

pgj2015

fryup wrote: »

RTE to broadcast daily Mass, thats Mass everyday folks

god i love Mass

Ah great, mass! Father Alton Crosby is doing it. I’m a huge fan of his. He gives good mass. He really knows how to work the alter. Look at that chalice work, effortless.

Suckit

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Whilst we complain about RTE a lot. I think we're in for a lot of news and repeats!

Stop The Lights.

sadie1502

TheBoyConor wrote: »

I hope property prices will plummet either through lack of buying power from people laid off or through the impending mass die off of elderly house blockers.

Jesus. Really horrible post.

wakka12

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-covid-19-is-doing-to-our-pollution-levels
The massive reduction in air pollution in China over the last few months is thought to have saved the lives of up to 77,000 people!

Eric Cartman

TheBoyConor wrote: »

I hope property prices will plummet either through lack of buying power from people laid off or through the impending mass die off of elderly house blockers.

I never thought id see the situation where old people owning their own houses had a very negative term associated with it.....by somebody who believes people should own houses...

TheBoyConor

TheBoyConor wrote: »

I hope property prices will plummet either through lack of buying power from people laid off or through the impending mass die off of elderly house blockers.

Sure it would be far more convenient if your own parents and grandparents died. Just hope for that instead.

paleoperson

TheBoyConor wrote: »

I hope property prices will plummet either through lack of buying power from people laid off or through the impending mass die off of elderly house blockers.

You're a right clown aren't you? I hope you die off.

Optimalprimerib

1. Playing videogames is seen as a good thing to do now.
2. It's an opportunity to be more inventive in the kitchen.
3. Property prices will drop, giving my friends a good chance to get onto the property market.
4. Alot less pollution.
5. Increase in hygiene levels

the purple tin

If the Patrick's Day parades etc had gone on as normal it would have been a total washout.

Firefork

Influencers and Instagram bloggers
Will Have to get a real job
Because nobody is stupid enough to pay them to advertise junk you can’t buy anyway

Eric Cartman

Firefork wrote: »

Influencers and Instagram bloggers
Will Have to get a real job
Because nobody is stupid enough to pay them to advertise junk you can’t buy anyway

Loads of them are just getting their kit off and selling subscriptions to creepy old men instead.

Yurt2

This will definitively reveal what jobs are nonsense and have no real value function internally in an organisation or for society at large. *I'm looking at you HR and marketing*

People like teachers, childcare workers, nurses and retail workers might get a bit more respect.

whisky_galore

Firefork wrote: »

Influencers and Instagram bloggers
Will Have to get a real job
Because nobody is stupid enough to pay them to advertise junk you can’t buy anyway

What real job? People that had real jobs don't have them now!

pgj2015

Yurt! wrote: »

This will definitively reveal what jobs are nonsense and have no real value function internally in an organisation or for society at large. *I'm looking at you HR and marketing*

People like teachers, childcare workers, nurses and retail workers might get a bit more respect.

I have no time for HR but to say marketing isnt a real job, its the reason the huge companies are huge, nike, adidas, red bull etc come on. :pac:


sorry to go off topic but I had to say something there.

sadie1502

Yurt! wrote: »

This will definitively reveal what jobs are nonsense and have no real value function internally in an organisation or for society at large. *I'm looking at you HR and marketing*

People like teachers, childcare workers, nurses and retail workers might get a bit more respect.

And logistics. A key area in keeping pharma food economy ticking.

Yurt!

Yurt! wrote: »

This will definitively reveal what jobs are nonsense and have no real value function internally in an organisation or for society at large. *I'm looking at you HR and marketing*

How? In what way?

People like teachers, childcare workers, nurses and retail workers might get a bit more respect.

I doubt the range of perceptions of such positions will change. (since people tend to look at each one slightly differently anyway)

Kivaro

This is a graph that proves social distancing works.
It worked back in 1918, and it will work 102 years later if we all abide by social distancing norms. The graph shows what happened when St. Louis introduced social distancing as a result of the Spanish Flu outbreak, but Philadelphia did not. The graph should give us all hope:

sadie1502

Kivaro wrote: »

This is a graph that proves social distancing works.
It worked back in 1918, and it will work 102 years later if we all abide by social distancing norms. The graph shows what happened when St. Louis introduced social distancing as a result of the Spanish Flu outbreak, but Philadelphia did not. The graph should give us all hope:

It does work as the virus has no where to go. But we have to adhere to it for it to work.

PopePalpatine

My bins were way lighter this week when I took them out.

Dr. Bre

A positive is people saving money providing they don’t lose their job. No money to spend on holidays or in pubs/ restaurants and shops. No sport for people to go to or gamble on. Kids cost a fortune but if nothing to take them to then that’s saving money . Overall Hopefully people will get a better handle on dealing with money

rob316

Dr. Bre wrote: »

A positive is people saving money providing they don’t lose their job. No money to spend on holidays or in pubs/ restaurants and shops. No sport for people to go to or gamble on. Kids cost a fortune but if nothing to take them to then that’s saving money . Overall Hopefully people will get a better handle on dealing with money

If we don't spend though the economy doesn't grow, hoarding money helps no one in reality.

Mad_maxx

The SJW - WOKE agenda is very likely to be completely suspended, people don't have time to indulge the concept of multiple genders or gender pronouns etc during times of real crisis