So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

coastwatch · 12-04-2020 12:18PM

Nick Heath, currently out of work rugby commentator, turning his sports commentary skills to comedy, on everyday life,

https://twitter.com/RowingVoice/status/1241697389506854912?s=20

Andew Cotter doing his bit,
https://twitter.com/MrAndrewCotter/status/1248313303270596610?s=20

storker · 12-04-2020 12:27PM

AllForIt wrote: »

You are proving my point for me. Going into medicine or equally a firefighter, is not 'just a job'.

Why are we clapping for them if it's 'just a job'.

Because life isn't as black-and-white as simple people like to imagine it is?

Antares35 · 12-04-2020 04:16PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

Have ye noticed the number of large bumble bees around? I guess there are less cars around to mow them down. They do seem quite big this year.

Butterflies too

Harry Palmr · 12-04-2020 05:31PM

Yep a massive bumble bee along side me when I was working out in the last few days.
Nature is loving this disaster, thus proving that humans are a scourge on the planet.

Also, criminality is well down, esp drug movements. So this could be when many people "get clean"

whisky_galore · 12-04-2020 06:48PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Also, criminality is well down, esp drug movements. So this could be when many people "get clean"

Containers are still getting in with imports so I doubt the supply line is affected much. The frequent unexpected road checks may put a dampener on distribution side though.

jester77 · 13-04-2020 01:01PM

More appreciative of what is happening in the garden. Sitting in the garden, bbq'ing and watching the birds over the last few days. Two beautiful bullfinches building their nest in the hedge, a group of Waxwings picking berries from the trees. Usually would be out and about doing something, nice to just relax and take things in that are happening right in front of me.

nsi423 · 13-04-2020 08:18PM

No school shootings in the US last month, the first March without at least one since 2002 apparently...
https://twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1249716012599083010?s=19

justmehere · 14-04-2020 08:01AM

I can accurately measure by eye the distance between two objects (up to 2m).

fineso.mom · 14-04-2020 12:24PM

This is a personal positive but I'd hope it is the case with some others too.
My teenager drove me mad at the start of all of this, wanting to meet friends and constantly going for 'a walk' where he would inevitably meet onr of them and then just happen to meet a couple more. Of course he insisted they were distancing but it was stressing me out, and there were lots of arguments.
Then the heavier restrictions came in and I had visions of him flouting the rules and being arrested...
But for some reason, it was like someone flicked a switch and he hasn't gone near anyone. He has spent the last two weeks painting, gardening, clearing out a shed, making and putting up shelves, sorting clothes and dumping old stuff. Yesterday he dismantled a pallet and made a workbench to go in the newly cleared out shed. He's asked for tools for his birthday, not PlayStation games, not clothes or ridiculous overpriced trainers... Tools!
So, long story short, the restrictions have turned my friends/social media obsessed young fella into a creative, hardworking and far more pleasant young man.

road_high · 14-04-2020 12:30PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

Have ye noticed the number of large bumble bees around? I guess there are less cars around to mow them down. They do seem quite big this year.

I had to make an essential trip up and down the virtually empty M9 motorway and my windscreen has been covered in insects, much more than they ususally would have been which was very noticeable. Probably a lot more activity going as the traffic flow isn't there to disrupt/splat them.

Snow Garden · 15-04-2020 08:24AM

There will be a bunch of good new movie releases ready to go when the cinemas open again e.g. No Time to Die, A Quiet Place 2, Top Gun 2....

the purple tin · 15-04-2020 08:39AM

Snow Garden wrote: »

There will be a bunch of good new movie releases ready to go when the cinemas open again e.g. No Time to Die, A Quiet Place 2, Top Gun 2....

Will they not start doing them ppv like the trolls movie?

Snow Garden · 15-04-2020 03:39PM

the purple tin wrote: »

Will they not start doing them ppv like the trolls movie?

I would prefer to see the latest Bond movie in a cinema.

Canyon86 · 15-04-2020 10:57PM

For me-

No long hours spent commuting

I am getting more exercise

Spending more time with my family

Not eating crappy canteen food

Irish_peppa · 16-04-2020 05:30AM

One positive is that the ECB certainly wont be increasing the interest rates anytime soon. There was mutterings that there would be incremental increases starting soon and the end of low interest rates would be over. I would think thats on the long finger now. With a huge proportion of Irish Mortgages on trackers it will certainly help out a lot of Irish people who have lost jobs:)

fits · 16-04-2020 06:12AM

Getting to spend quality time with my toddler twins.

Jim Root · 16-04-2020 07:33AM

I'm saving a tonne of money - no childcare, no petrol, no work lunches, no house cleaner, no dry cleaning work shirts. About 2.5k savings a month.

silverharp · 16-04-2020 07:35AM

should have a decent tan by May, not depending on sunny days that line up with weekends, though its more a health concern to have decent Vit D levels before I get the bug

Pintman Paddy Losty · 16-04-2020 11:26PM

https://www.rte.ie/amp/1130701/

"Blindboy said he has suffered a huge financial loss as a result of Covid-19.

"I was in the middle of a UK tour, and I had to postpone a sold-out gig in London. The British government had not cancelled mass events so I was left with huge financial debt for pulling the gig that morning.

"I was looking ahead to a Canadian tour and gigs in Madrid, Barcelona and Thailand. I have no income for the next six months. It is financially devastating."

That's a positive in my book anyway!! Had a great chuckle to myself reading that.

Danzy · 16-04-2020 11:47PM

Jim Root wrote: »

I'm saving a tonne of money - no childcare, no petrol, no work lunches, no house cleaner, no dry cleaning work shirts. About 2.5k savings a month.

Go on the Jim.

Spend a bit of that online from Irish businesses.

Tell me how · 17-04-2020 12:14AM

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/amp/1130701/

"Blindboy said he has suffered a huge financial loss as a result of Covid-19.

"I was in the middle of a UK tour, and I had to postpone a sold-out gig in London. The British government had not cancelled mass events so I was left with huge financial debt for pulling the gig that morning.

"I was looking ahead to a Canadian tour and gigs in Madrid, Barcelona and Thailand. I have no income for the next six months. It is financially devastating."

That's a positive in my book anyway!! Had a great chuckle to myself reading that.

You'd want to be some sort of a cnut to take pleasure in a self-employed person losing their income in this manner, at this time.

cian68 · 17-04-2020 12:28AM

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/amp/1130701/

"Blindboy said he has suffered a huge financial loss as a result of Covid-19.

"I was in the middle of a UK tour, and I had to postpone a sold-out gig in London. The British government had not cancelled mass events so I was left with huge financial debt for pulling the gig that morning.

"I was looking ahead to a Canadian tour and gigs in Madrid, Barcelona and Thailand. I have no income for the next six months. It is financially devastating."

That's a positive in my book anyway!! Had a great chuckle to myself reading that.

Not sure what he did to hurt you

DopeTech · 17-04-2020 05:33PM

As restaurants start to do takeaway/delivery they are putting the takeaways to shame.

EmptyTree · 23-04-2020 08:09PM

Not having to listen to nonsense political point scoring between political parties on the news/current affairs

Zeek12 · 23-04-2020 08:16PM

EmptyTree wrote: »

Not having to listen to nonsense political point scoring between political parties on the news/current affairs

Don't speak too soon.

FF and SF doing plenty of point scoring in the Dail today; criticizing how the pandemic is being managed.

Normal service is already returning!

Snow Garden · 24-04-2020 01:25PM

Honestly this must be the best April weather wise in many years! It's class.

Dr. Bre · 24-04-2020 02:00PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

Honestly this must be the best April weather wise in many years! It's class.

No April Showers

Beechwoodspark · 25-04-2020 11:51AM

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/amp/1130701/

"Blindboy said he has suffered a huge financial loss as a result of Covid-19.

"I was in the middle of a UK tour, and I had to postpone a sold-out gig in London. The British government had not cancelled mass events so I was left with huge financial debt for pulling the gig that morning.

"I was looking ahead to a Canadian tour and gigs in Madrid, Barcelona and Thailand. I have no income for the next six months. It is financially devastating."

That's a positive in my book anyway!! Had a great chuckle to myself reading that.

That clown should just disappear

Brendan o connor just played some bizarre clip that blindboy apparently scripted.

Rubbish of the worst kind.

Harry Palmr · 25-04-2020 03:13PM

We should be getting a rebate on the motor insurance. Yay.

Dr. Bre · 25-04-2020 03:28PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

We should be getting a rebate on the motor insurance. Yay.

About a tenner I reckon !

So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

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