So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

pgj2015

That is the the kind of poster who you are better off adding to ignore list, especially when you are coming on to a forum to discuss the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus.

Runaways

The people ignoring this virus and just laughing it off both in the UK and US seem to be of a similar herd. Brexit supporting proud Brits and Trump cultist Americans.

There’ll probably be a lot fewer of both factions over the next year or so.
Guess you could call that a positive.

pgj2015

Covid-19 is not mutating much as it passes through the human population, which is positive on two fronts. Firstly it avoids a scenario where the virus becomes more dangerous as it infects more people, secondly it makes developing a vaccine more straightforward.



The number of new coronavirus cases in Italy fell for the second day in a row on Monday, and the person with the first known case of local transmission – known as Patient 1 – has left the hospital. The country recorded 4,789 new cases on Monday compared to 5,560 cases on Sunday, raising hopes that the lockdown is working.

ifElseThen

NIMAN wrote: »

And the trolley crisis too.

No-one seems to be bad enough to be sitting in an A&E for 48hrs now.

The Gov should use this fall as a basis for penalising those who clog up A&E.

The medical professionals unions, INMO etc, should no longer use these numbers as a stick to beat the sitting Gov with.

Dr. Bre

freshpopcorn wrote: »

In the UK it's rumoured they'll show old episodes of Corronation Streey and Emmerdale as they do on ITV 3 every day.

Corona-tion Street

GreeBo

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Corona-tion Street

I prefer to watch Lockdown-ton Abbey myself.

fryup

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The TV is running out of soap (opera).

fryup wrote: »

yes no soaps, it'll be interesting what they'll show instead

freshpopcorn wrote: »

In the UK it's rumoured they'll show old episodes of Corronation Streey and Emmerdale as they do on ITV 3 every day.

Tea Shock

RTE to show gigs from this lot?




(I bet they're doin a lot more business on Spotify these days)

thequarefellow

People might accept that the pubs don't need to be open all the time in order for us to survive as a nation. Maybe bring back Good Friday closing? (It's only one day after all). Pub staff deserve a break and when it's enforced across the board, there is no fear of losing out on business to competitors.

For me personally, I've noticed that since I have been off college, my insomnia has gone away and I'm sleeping way better than I used to, which in turn gives me more energy to exercise during the day, which is nice considering I'm coming to the end of a Garmin training programme I'm following.

If anyone is bored and wants to try out new routes and you have a subscription to Strava premium then they recently launched a new route generator for both running and cycling. I'm impressed with the routes it has generated for me.

Who here is also using the time to improve their fitness and health?

Jinglejangle69

Everyone needs to contribute to society.

No more free gaffs, money, entitlements for able bodied people who couldnt be arsed.

We all need to put something into the pot.

Ubbquittious

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Everyone needs to contribute to society.

No more free gaffs, money, entitlements for able bodied people who couldnt be arsed.

We all need to put something into the pot.

It is the same people putting into the pot over and over and some select few rich companies are squirreling it all away to the likes of Bermuda. Your average free gaff getter and couldn't be arsed person gets a bit of food and a roof over his head and spends the remainder on fags and booze that goes straight back to the government anyway. So not a huge drain on the country vs buying stuff on Amazon for example most of that goes to Bezos tax haven land and the money for making the actual product to China

Suckit

Not the thread for that nonsense please.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The TV is running out of soap (opera).

Many people will realise they can live without them. Once you stop watching them, it’s amazing how quickly they recede from your mind. I watched one or two way back in the day and made the conscious effort to stop watching and it only took about a week for me to not care what about them any more. Because they are not television of substance, they are quickly forgotten. All the people working on soaps must be bricking it now because I think they’ll permanently lose a lot of their audience. Soaps really rely on bringing people back night after night.

I agree, could you please not drag this thread off topic, please take your hatred and whingeing about the unemployed over to where it belongs in After Hours.

Snow Garden

Deleted User wrote: »

Who here is also using the time to improve their fitness and health?

I think a lot of people are. I was talking to a friend yesterday and he said the bicycle shops are doing mighty business at the moment. I do see a lot of people out cycling too.

The One Doctor

I just bought a digital piano. I've always wanted to learn the piano and the virtual lockdown is the perfect excuse. That's a positive for me.

Lavinia

I started learning Danish last week :d
I'm thinking if I manage to persist these 20, 30 minutes a day next year this time I may be quite good at it

There have to be silver linings for someone.

Zoom is going to overtake Facebook and google combined ( slight exaggeration )
with everyone setting up virtual pubs with names and all and using it to talk to families. I never heard of zoom untill last week.

td2008

Lavinia wrote: »

I started learning Danish last week :d
I'm thinking if I manage to persist these 20, 30 minutes a day next year this time I may be quite good at it

Using an app?
Trying to learn Tagalog using Rosetta stone but it seems to get a lot of negative reviews

Snow Garden

Lavinia wrote: »

I started learning Danish last week :d
I'm thinking if I manage to persist these 20, 30 minutes a day next year this time I may be quite good at it

Duolingo is a good tool for learning a new language.

eclipsechaser

There was one positive in the UK an hour ago.

Slim Charles

eclipsechaser wrote: »

There was one positive in the UK an hour ago.

Disgusting comment.

Yakult

Slim Charles wrote: »

Disgusting comment.

He is a disgusting human in fairness.

fryup

There have been significant drops in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels in parts of Dublin as fewer people make their way around the city, according to air quality readings taken by Newstalk Breakfast

https://www.newstalk.com/news/notable-reduction-nitrogen-dioxide-levels-parts-dublin-amid-covid-19-measures-989347

Lavinia

td2008 wrote: »

Using an app?
Trying to learn Tagalog using Rosetta stone but it seems to get a lot of negative reviews

I bought some books with audio cds

but also practicing on Duolingo


so far can say few sentences :d

Lavinia

Snow Garden wrote: »

Duolingo is a good tool for learning a new language.

Yes I find it really surprisingly good especially for learning pronunciation as it gives you an option to say something then it checks if it sounds alright.


needless to say Danish is not the easiest for the later

eclipsechaser

Slim Charles wrote: »

Disgusting comment.

While I accept it's a joke in poor taste, I'll argue that it could be a positive overall if it means that a whole country takes this more seriously.

If you want to see what a disgusting comment actually looks like, remind yourself what he said only a fortnight ago. That early attitude and inaction will directly result in deaths: https://twitter.com/MikeMar82888097/status/1243499510241902592?s=20

fryup

leave Boris alone, he's a decent old skin

Harry Palmr

Slice of gammon! Still I wouldn't wish him dead, I'd save that for Trump