So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

Purple Mountain

Boards.ie is heaving!

paleoperson

I think the environmental benefits from how there's much less pollution. This is how the pollution should be all the time.

Jonybgud

paleoperson wrote: »

This is how the pollution should be all the time.

There shouldn't be pollution any time! but I know what you mean.

One good thing I suppose, There's a focus on everyone's health and wellbeing for once everything else seems to be taking a back seat, certainly not a bad side effect......

Snow Garden

I believe there is some lovely dry weather coming mid next week. Great weather for walking/hiking/cycling etc.
Also the clocks change at the end of March which will mean light until 8pm.

NasserShammaz

The poison that is Facebook & WhatsApp will see a dramatic fall in its users because of the absolute skum who use it to spread panic and lies for no other reason than just being sad trolls

NasserShammaz

NasserShammaz wrote: »

The poison that is Facebook & WhatsApp will see a dramatic fall in its users because of the absolute skum who use it to spread panic and lies for no other reason than just being sad trolls

I doubt it. My two teenage nieces are essentially locked up in their rooms constantly on such apps, or sites. Social media will continue to grow regardless of the scum who behave that way on it. Look at twitter. It's a cesspit, and has been for many years, but it's stayed pretty strong for many people.

Nah. Social media will continue to spread itself within society. It's a horrible thing to see but it's here to stay, and will be worse given time.

Floppybits

Seen alot of people out walking today some i seen twice or 3 times. If this keeps up we will become one of the fittest healthiest nations around.

Antares35

Hopefully people will learn that washing hands and using tissues are normal things to do

Dakota Dan

Snow Garden wrote: »

It's all doom and gloom on the main thread but what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

Top of my head...

- More employers will start working-from-home policies (where possible) and there will much less stigma around it in the future

- People will get to spend more time with their families and local communities this Spring

- Due to home working, there will be less traffic congestion on the roads and less people commuting for excessive hours every week

- People will develop better hygiene practices

- People will eat healthier, drink less and sleep more in order to build up their immune system

- The reduction in economic activity will have a positive effect on the environment and help countries meet their climate change targets

- Less pointless consumerism

- Food retailers will make increased profits due to stockpiling (much of which will probably get binned in the long run)

- The number of people that contract flu this year will diminish due to better hygiene standards at all levels

- We will finally fully acknowledge how inadequate our health service is and perhaps do something meaningful about it

- We may even get a national government who will focus on fixing major problems in Ireland rather than votes in the next election7

- People will eat more locally produced food

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I find your post contradictory, you say people will be more hygienic then you start rabbiting on about people building up their immune systems. To build up your immune system you need to stop being to hygienic. You also seem to be lapping up climate alarmism and think the practices surrounding the corona virus will help stop the climate from changing or whatever you believe about it. You need to do some proper research around the real reason of climate scare stories because it’s not what you believe.

Dakota Dan

o1s1n wrote: »

If god exists, it means he made this virus.

In that case he can go **** himself.

Maybe it was the devil,

Dakota Dan

GM228 wrote: »

Biggest (and realistically only) positive of all this thus far is the drop in oil prices.

Except when oil prices drop everything else follows suit and that includes wages, recession follows. Do you still think the oil price drop is a positive?

Ubbquittious

Will any other disease find it hard to spread if big parts of the world go into lockdown? Be great if the common cold managed to eventually go out the door with the Corona and there's plenty other diseases we could do without.


Unfortunately there are loads of them that kind of bounce around the animal kingdom for a while to lay low before setting their sights on those pesky humans again.

TheMilkyPirate

I've had enough of the doomsday predictions and constant bad news every day. Every now and then I'll see a snippet of good news related to this mess and it cheers me up no end so here's a small bit of that good news to start off

https://twitter.com/DrMattMcCarthy/status/1238939403206221824?s=19

Positive vibes only please

revelman

Continuing the positive vibes, I posted this on another thread but look at what happened to the SARS pandemic in 2003. It basically burned out by July. There are a lot of unknowns about COVID19 but it is quite similar in makeup to the first SARS. While there is some transmission in the southern hempishere at the moment, such transmissions are mostly associated with travel and then the ensuing local transmission. We are not finding sustained community transmission in the Southern Hemisphere where it is summer at the moment. This bodes well for summer in the northern hemisphere and is a reason to be hopeful I think.

Winterstale

Great to hear some positive words. I know people are scared right now but I do think the doomsday moaning brigade are revelling in it. Sad losers.

sadie1502

I'm holding onto the good news. The bits that are good get swallowed up in the other thread and people don't even comment on them. Why don't they? This news has I'm sure given hope.

The chan chan man

Is there ANY chance it could burn out by 29th April??!

Off on me jolliers! 2 weeks in Torramelinos, gona be tropic!

The chan chan man

Is there ANY chance it could burn out by 29th April??!

Off on me jolliers! 2 weeks in Torramelinos, gona be tropic!

One eyed Jack

Gilead Sciences Update -

Gilead Sciences Update On The Company’s Ongoing Response To COVID-19


Compassionate Use

Gilead is working with government and non-government organizations and regulatory authorities to provide remdesivir to patients with COVID-19 for emergency treatment in the absence of any approved treatment options.

Compassionate use requests must be submitted by a patient’s treating physician. Gilead is currently assessing requests on an individual basis and require, at a minimum, that the patient be hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 infection with significant clinical manifestations.

It is important to note that results in individual compassionate use cases are not sufficient to determine the safety and efficacy of remdesivir in treating COVID-19 – this can only be determined through prospective clinical trials.


Bold emphasis my own,

sadie1502

That's more upto date reponse I think.

sadie1502

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Gilead Sciences Update -

Gilead Sciences Update On The Company’s Ongoing Response To COVID-19


Compassionate Use

Gilead is working with government and non-government organizations and regulatory authorities to provide remdesivir to patients with COVID-19 for emergency treatment in the absence of any approved treatment options.

Compassionate use requests must be submitted by a patient’s treating physician. Gilead is currently assessing requests on an individual basis and require, at a minimum, that the patient be hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 infection with significant clinical manifestations.

It is important to note that results in individual compassionate use cases are not sufficient to determine the safety and efficacy of remdesivir in treating COVID-19 – this can only be determined through prospective clinical trials.


Bold emphasis my own,

That was February I think the criteria has changed from my understanding could be wrong. But some form of treatment is good isn't it.

shesty

I am going to lurk here.:)
I've had enough of the doom and gloom. Life will go on after this, we just can't see the wood from the trees at the moment. I need some cheerfulness to help survive several weeks at home with smallies :D:D:D:D

road_high

An appreciation at last of the great food produced here in Ireland and Europe and the folly of reliance on imported food from halfway across the globe. At least we won’t starve and have excellent local food options.
Farmers have been completely taken for granted here and swamped under a sea of bad publicity surrounding the environment and Veganism- this may herald a very new perspective on all this which I think has been long overdue

olestoepoke

Enjoying the Liverpool thread on boards immensely. They are really worried. Even if it all works out and the league is finished and they are crowned champions the squirming that is going on now is a joy to watch.

J_1980

This will devastate government finances for years to come. It’s the right way to spend money (make surpluses in good times and spend in crisis times).
No more 5er more, xmas bonus and free gaffs for spongers. This happened at exactly the right time, before any SF follies would have made Irish public finances unrecoverable....


Plus it kind of proves the authoritarian free market systems in Asia as superior. They had much higher growth rates before the outbreak and deal with it way more efficiently. In Singapore anyone quarantined leaving their place is stripped of the residency. Can you imagine such thing in a European liberal democracy? At least it seems to work without devastating the economy.

Wanderer78

J_1980 wrote:

This will devastate government finances for years to come. It’s the right way to spend money (make surpluses in good times and spend in crisis times). No more 5er more, xmas bonus and free gaffs for spongers. This happened at exactly the right time, before any SF follies would have made Irish public finances unrecoverable....

Majority of money in the modern economy is created by financial institutions in the form of credit, continual surpluses is a fallacy, we must move our money creation systems back towards more democratic methods, as our current approach is effectively forcing the creation of credit, which in turn becomes our debts, hence why debt levels, particularly private debt levels are at an all time high globally

Montage of Feck

J_1980 wrote: »

This will devastate government finances for years to come. It’s the right way to spend money (make surpluses in good times and spend in crisis times).
No more 5er more, xmas bonus and free gaffs for spongers. This happened at exactly the right time, before any SF follies would have made Irish public finances unrecoverable....


Plus it kind of proves the authoritarian free market systems in Asia as superior. They had much higher growth rates before the outbreak and deal with it way more efficiently. In Singapore anyone quarantined leaving their place is stripped of the residency. Can you imagine such thing in a European liberal democracy? At least it seems to work without devastating the economy.

I've really got to start reading up on Singapore, quite an amazing country really went from a third to a first world in a generation without the problems that have plagued every other post colonial nation, ourselves included.

road_high

It does highlight the importance of a fiscally prudent government- i’m very happy FG happen to be still there. They’re steady, experienced and the best people to have in times of crisis.
Imagine a bunch of anti vax reckless spendthrifts in power right now? The Irish electorate have a bit if a reality check coming

Wanderer78

Montage of Feck wrote:

I've really got to start reading up on Singapore, quite an amazing country really went from a third to a first world in a generation without the problems that have plagued every other post colonial nation, ourselves included.

Maybe the fact, the majority of land in Singapore is publicly owned, keeping their housing and accommodation markets in check, is one of main reasons why the country has done so well

storker

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Maybe it was the devil,

..and god couldn't be bothered doing anything about it.