So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

Tokyo · 09-09-2020 01:08PM

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MrStuffins · 09-09-2020 01:14PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Saved money towards buying a house.

Saving money is another great one actually. I've started a little extra savings account that I can use for emergencies.

It's great to know that if something comes up suddenly you have an extra few bob squirreled away to take care of it.

Oh, another one was that I finally used the time to learn to drive. Finished all my lessons and then got insured. With the roads much emptier, it was easier to get used to it. They gradually got busier as I gradually got better. Handy!

whisky_galore · 10-09-2020 06:48PM

No commemorations or whinging about commemorations.

Assetbacked · 10-09-2020 09:26PM

Another few positives; due to increased savings we bought a pretty new car the other week. Also, I love how quiet the morning walk to work is, how places are quiet where I got for lunch and how there is no evening rush in the gym.

MadYaker · 10-09-2020 09:31PM

I got a promotion that I wouldn't have gotten if the pandemic didn't happen. It's like littlefinger says, chaos is a ladder. Property prices will surely come down too, next year might be a good year to buy.

But in terms of overall positives at the moment it's hard to see them. Hopefully the days of people coming into work coughing and sneezing are over. I don't have to carry cash anymore ever. It's looking like no matter what I'll always be able to work a certain amount from home.

Hawthorn Tree · 10-09-2020 10:45PM

MadYaker wrote: »

I got a promotion that I wouldn't have gotten if the pandemic didn't happen. It's like littlefinger says, chaos is a ladder. Property prices will surely come down too, next year might be a good year to buy.

But in terms of overall positives at the moment it's hard to see them. Hopefully the days of people coming into work coughing and sneezing are over. I don't have to carry cash anymore ever. It's looking like no matter what I'll always be able to work a certain amount from home.

Chaos is a ladder, love it! How did the chaos help you get the promotion?

I'd say the end of 2022 would be better for buying property. There is always a lag. The bust from 2008 and subsequent house price decline didn't bottom out until 2013 I believe.

storker · 10-09-2020 11:24PM

Assetbacked wrote: »

Another few positives; due to increased savings we bought a pretty new car the other week. Also, I love how quiet the morning walk to work is, how places are quiet where I got for lunch and how there is no evening rush in the gym.

My wife goes to our local gym where visits are limited to 1 hour sessions and there is no access to showers or changing rooms. You arrive in your gym gear and leave with it and take a shower at home. She swears she likes it better like that, because she's in and out more quickly.

MrStuffins · 14-09-2020 03:23PM

Went to the cinema the other night and I must say, the social distancing involved was very nice. No people around you munching in your ear, no rustling of papers, no lad who has brought someone on a date and put too much Joop on.

Bliss!

kenmc · 18-09-2020 10:53PM

Fingers crossed the new restrictions in Dublin will put and end to the recording of any further episodes of Fairly Sh1tty. Disappointed to see it return a few weeks back.

Cluedo Monopoly · 15-10-2020 09:25AM

Are there any more stories about the benefits to the environment due to Covid?
I remember back in Spring they were on about how clean the canals in Venice were and how Europe's air quality has improved dramatically.
Are there any more reports like that? Greenhouse gas emissions must be way down globally.
I would imagine the big reduction in air travel continues to improve air quality around the world.

s1ippy · 15-10-2020 09:28AM

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Are there any more stories about the benefits to the environment due to Covid?
I remember back in Spring they were on about how clean the canals in Venice were and how Europe's air quality has improved dramatically.
Are there any more reports like that? Greenhouse gas emissions must be way down globally.
I would imagine the big reduction in air travel continues to improve air quality around the world.

Either China have dramatically changed what they were doing back in February or they're still under some sort of lockdown.

Cluedo Monopoly · 15-10-2020 09:46AM

I don't follow, what are these numbers?

nthclare · 15-10-2020 09:50AM

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Are there any more stories about the benefits to the environment due to Covid?
I remember back in Spring they were on about how clean the canals in Venice were and how Europe's air quality has improved dramatically.
Are there any more reports like that? Greenhouse gas emissions must be way down globally.
I would imagine the big reduction in air travel continues to improve air quality around the world.

Well definitely there's more clarity in the night sky.
I've never seen Mars so red/orange and its there without having to search.
It just pops into the night sky after dark.

Living in the Burren I've a lot of scope for adventure and creativity.
I go out at nightime and I've an amazing walk which brings me to an old ringfort, and when there's no sound in the sky or the roads are quite.
You can actually hear the animals rustling through the hazelwoods peppered around the valleys near Fr Ted's house.

The stars are way easier to see and I've bought 3 pairs of binoculars to enjoy it.

Theres a nice population of foxes too, and an owl who follows me up the booreen, he or she freaked me out a few times.
Hovering over my head, and they're so silent.

Lahinch last night had a spectacular display of porpoises chasing palagic fish.

I suppose there's a lot of advantages for people who made the decision before all this to give up on the rat race and live a more simple life.
Just have a regular job in a hardware shop, grocery shop or something similar and had family inheritance and just buy a house outright and give the bird to the slavery to the cooperate world.

I made that decision is 2005 luckily I had inheritance and bought a house with it and took on a low paid job in the public sector and worked my up through the incremental scale.

While my friends and aquaintences were caught up with the money and buying multiple houses, and some dabbled with Charly and danced with the devil.

I used to think about how would I cope with hard times if there was a world war and had to buckle down.
In a way this is similar, and I'm content enough with my choices so far.

It doesn't make me better than anyone else, it just makes me feel better about the choice I made all those years ago...

Never married either, another personal choice, but I think now it would be nice to settle down if the right person came along.

So my past decisions worked out well for me to be able for this corona thing...

Bowlardo · 16-10-2020 01:01PM

nthclare wrote: »

Well definitely there's more clarity in the night sky.
I've never seen Mars so red/orange and its there without having to search.
It just pops into the night sky after dark.

Living in the Burren I've a lot of scope for adventure and creativity.
.....
So my past decisions worked out well for me to be able for this corona thing...

Happy for you. Enjoyed that. Good read

Cluedo Monopoly · 12-11-2020 09:33PM

A lot of people out running and walking this November. I've never seen so many runners with head torches.
We'll definitely be a fitter and more hygienic nation at the end of this pandemic.

vrusinov · 12-11-2020 10:18PM

I dunno, I'm one of those people and my morning runs are quickly compensated with after-work beer after talking to my screen all day (video meetings).

So now I have strong legs and impressive beer gut.

Xtrail14 · 13-11-2020 01:16AM

China are working on corona 20 so be good to see the back of 19.

ShineOn7 · 13-11-2020 01:32PM

The amount of appreciation we will have for all we took for granted will be fecking immense

Everything from hugging people you love, to gigs, to getting The Ride after a date again

The appreciation and gratitude we'll have to do things like 2019 will be sustained. You'd have to be a full on pessimist to think otherwise (and yes, I am aware of where I am online

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speckle · 13-11-2020 06:31PM

I have learnt how incrediably resilant I am, like an old oak tree and yet still able to flexibly bend like branches with the wind. I have travelled far this life time to come to this point and I am grateful to the many teachings life has thrown my way and the mentors that I have met along the way. Humbled as a mere speck in a majestic universe.

And yes my spelling is still atrocious

Mr. Karate · 14-11-2020 03:30PM

That the media have completely exposed themselves as liars, propagandists and fear peddlers and our Govt offiicials have exposed themselves as wannabe dictators.

kenmc · 15-11-2020 12:44AM

Normally I'd be seeing huge queues of gobsh1tes sitting in traffic jams outside my house heading to dundrum town centre to do their Xmas shopping. So much so that all journeys would need military precision in planning to get there in time. This year... It's excellent. Can jump in the car at the drop of a hat and go anywhere I like inside 5km. Thanks covid!

Man Vs ManUre · 15-11-2020 08:54PM

No more Sunday night fear.

Cluedo Monopoly · 24-11-2020 11:33PM

A childhood memory from 1970s Galway was staring up at airplanes and wondering where they were going.

Weirdly it has become a novelty again.

Cluedo Monopoly · 24-12-2020 11:56AM

I would contend that Christmas is not as 'vulgar' as it had become over the last few years.
There seems to be less consumerism and aggression and stress around the towns/shops this year.
In the last few years before Covid I experienced a lot of aggression, anger, road rage, impatience etc from people who would walk over you to find a bargain...

Sultan of Bling · 24-12-2020 04:16PM

My job is a 30 minute walk away from the house. I have just been told i'll be working from home in january.

That means in the first week of january i wont have to endure groups of overweight fat women power walking (well trying to anyway!) on the footpaths and not moving out of my way.

Dickie10 · 24-12-2020 10:59PM

never taking an impromtu sesh or the beauty of it for granted again

Irish Steve · 25-12-2020 12:23AM

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

A childhood memory from 1970s Galway was staring up at airplanes and wondering where they were going.

Weirdly it has become a novelty again.

If you have a smart phone with a data package, you don't need to wonder any more, an app called flightradar24 will tell you about a very high percentage of the flights you see at high level, in terms of the aircraft type, the operator, where it's come from, and where it's going to. It used to be free, there might now be a small charge for the lowest level of use, and it does make it much easier to see what's flying over you now.

Irish Steve · 25-12-2020 12:31AM

Not sure if this is the right place to post this thought, hopefully, a positive benefit of Covid, and many pubs being closed has been a reduction in the number of drivers on the road with too much drink taken. I might be wrong on this, but I'd like to hope that it's been one positive result of an otherwise dire year.

In the same vein, I'm sure that the hospitals will have recorded a significant fall in the numbers attending A & E at weekends as a result of excessive alcohol and the consequences. That has to be a good thing too.

There's for sure a significant drop in the number of flu cases this year, which will be partly a result of the forced use of masks in many places, maybe there's a lesson there for the future, not so much mandatory masks for all, but a guideline that if you're hawking and spluttering, maybe a mask to keep it to yourself might be a worthwhile idea.

mirrorwall14 · 25-12-2020 12:40PM

I have missed out on Christmas Eve night drinks and opening of presents at home since I had my own kids and I’m in my own house. Covid taught us to zoom so they stuck me on the telly for an hour last night to join in!

Homer · 25-12-2020 12:44PM

Irish Steve wrote: »

Not sure if this is the right place to post this thought, hopefully, a positive benefit of Covid, and many pubs being closed has been a reduction in the number of drivers on the road with too much drink taken. I might be wrong on this, but I'd like to hope that it's been one positive result of an otherwise dire year.

In the same vein, I'm sure that the hospitals will have recorded a significant fall in the numbers attending A & E at weekends as a result of excessive alcohol and the consequences. That has to be a good thing too.

There's for sure a significant drop in the number of flu cases this year, which will be partly a result of the forced use of masks in many places, maybe there's a lesson there for the future, not so much mandatory masks for all, but a guideline that if you're hawking and spluttering, maybe a mask to keep it to yourself might be a worthwhile idea.

Weirdly, more people have died on the roads this year so far than 2019. I would have thought the numbers would be down too for a number of reasons but that’s not the case.

So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

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