So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

Snow Garden wrote: »

So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

Top of my head...

- More employers will start working-from-home policies 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

- 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 Ireland rather than votes in the next election

If I comment on some of your points I will turn this into a politics thread! Is that Ok?

It might make us all slow down a little and realise the economy isnt everything

To turn back to God and make yourself right, giving the increasing atheist society we now live in that's controlled by the mass produced mainstream media.

There'll be no greedy pilot unions threatening strikes.

one world order wrote: »

To turn back to God and make yourself right, giving the increasing atheist society we now live in that's controlled by the mass produced mainstream media.

If god exists, it means he made this virus.

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

Less reliance on China for manufacturing

My stock in Proctor & Gamble won't tank.

After binging on Netflix over their confinement period, many people will realize that it is ****e and cancel their subscriptions once the coronavirus has passed.

Well according to the Telegraph in the UK, some old people will die.

Wheety wrote: »

Well according to the Telegraph in the UK, some old people will die.

Half the telegraph readership down the swanee then

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Not a positive. And evidence of any of the total lack of respect for the elderly and what they've done, economic benefit or otherwise.

That's along the same lines as saying the positive of a mass shooting is that a company will reap money from selling the ammunition.

What are you telling me for?

The Premier League may be suspended before Liverpool mathematically win the league

The move to online led learning and support services across 2nd and 3rd level will be a huge payoff IMO.

The Irish student has generally quite a poor online support and learning experience.
Be it via Moodle or any of its clones it just really is drab and unengaging.

Hopefully the move to off-site delivery will push an increase in the quality.

Labs, seminars and tutorials are a vital part of learning but a move to online delivery for some lectures could also pay a big "green" dividend in reducing travel.

Tele-medicine, it's been knocking around for years without ever making big penetration for anything other than repeat prescriptions in the majority of the population.

Smartphones can now take pulse, many have Sp02 monitoring available in their camera, the price of BP monitors and good quality thermometers have dropped to a point where many homes have them available.

A very good set of the basic obs can now confidently be taken at home and have relevance to a remote Doctor for diagnostic and triage purposes.

Potentially a huge volume of our routine GP interactions could be moved online with a good degree of confidence.

Similarly a fair proportion of routine OPD department consultant appointments could feasibly now be managed via tele-medicine too.

I'll use myself as an example.
I see an Endocrinologist every 6 months. They review my BG numbers.
Numbers that are saved to an app on my phone, that has the option to share with my Dr.
No Doctor or clinic I'm aware of in Ireland yet uses the option but if they did, they could review remotely.

Now there is a need for a blood test in the week before I attend clinic, but phlebotomy services generally have you in and out very quickly.

Generally it's a 5/10 minute chat with the clinician, but due to the way the clinic is set up.
I could be 3hrs in the hospital.

That time has cost, for the hospital even in just providing waiting areas and for me in potential lost income or study time.

Imagine a clinic that uses the access my app provides?
They have any and all BG readings and insulin doses without having to read the diary or scroll my phone!
I attend the phlebotomy clinic get the blood draw as usual.
Then rather than attend the clinic the following week.
I get emailed the standard questionnaire that the clinician usually fills in by hand!
I answer the questions via form, update my meds.
Can even provide BP and weight thanks to very cheap and accurate home tech.

The clinician reviews, forwards me on his update or calls me in for face to face review.

This Corona epidemic could be the trigger to so much change!

Change that has far better student and patient outcomes.
Change that has secondary environmental benefits too.

one world order wrote: »

To turn back to God and make yourself right, giving the increasing atheist society we now live in that's controlled by the mass produced mainstream media.

So what you are saying is that God created this to turn people back to him?