Don't know about you lot but I'm eating better with more time on my hands.
Breakfast might have been a fried egg sandwich or nowt.
Today is typical of what it is now:
Combined with less drinking I'm feeling a lot sharper.
Folk are not quite as selfish.
More folks look out for elderly/vulnerable neighbours.
More home working.
Technology adopted to help with that above.
These folk that are adamant that they need to run/cycle every day, keep doing it.
Folk learn to bake bread.
and so on.
2 huge positives for me - Loving spending more time with my wife and daughter, after a nice meal, closing blinds, putting phones away, fire on, and a movie is a great way to wash away the day.
Oh, and the other, my 2nd year uni exams are cancelled, maths, control and instrumentation, and Eng design analysis. Beauty. 🙂 Passed on coursework over the year instead.
Win! 🙂
Defo mate, learning laplace transforms at 44 has been a challenge!
Increasing the contactless limit to £45.
Nice article here from Marina Hyde comparing our response to this contagion with Daniel Defoe's description of the 1665 London plague. In summary, regarding whether society would be better afterwards, Defoe suggests "A close conversing with death … would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us …” but eventually concludes "As the terror of the infection abated, those things all returned to their less desirable channel.”
The British way with contagion has barely changed since 1665
What good things could come from this virus?
Covid is quite a nice name for a boy.
I think for a short while we'll all appreciate what freedomws we have a bit more.
For about 24hrs.
The labour leader election thread has drifted away!!
On a very small scale I've had daylight, time and energy to go and do a bit of a litter pick along a local cycle path.
Council tips are all shut just now so had to limit myself to one bag sadly to avoid overloading the household wheelie bin.
The labour leader election thread has drifted away!!
Bugger, jinxed that!
Possibly an understanding that we could actually have helped the homeless all along. That the poor and vunerable could have been looked after as well.
Banks have managed to give charge-free overdrafts - maybe they'll realise that charging money to people who have less than no money is not really the correct or moral thing to do?
Maybe the realisation higher up that the people who 2 months ago were being told were unskilled undesirables are actually the ones holding the entire country together.
Zero-hours delivery driver - ****ing vital. Multi-millionaire hedge fund managers, not so much.
The over 70's/ 'at risk' groups discover online computer gaming.
(And I might find a home for the ps2 now that I no longer have a scart-equipped tv).
well ive just had my bowel scope cancelled, which to me is a good thing. was dreading the 'poo-pipe exploration rod of doom', although its only putting off the inevitable i spose. itll do for now tho.....
It's making it a lot easier to spot which neighbours are hard of thinking. 🤦🏼♀️
Normally, every morning I have to rinse out my sinuses. Had been reasonably sure it was linked to living on one of the most polluted roads in the country.
I just realised this morning that I haven't had to do it for the last 3 days...
Could be linked to the 50% drop in pollution on my street.
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/new-map-shows-edinburgh-seen-17990334
People who slag off mental health sufferers are now realising what it's like to be stuck in the house & what anxiety is like.
We will test potential new medicines in the sickest of patients. If some of them work in those patients, they may go onto to treat a broader population. That is an opportunity.
We will come to appreciate in the UK, that we have not been paying enough for healthcare.
A colleague who works in the acute medicine department of a large hospital told me that she'd only seen one paracetamol overdose in the last 3 weeks, when usually there's at least 2 or 3 a day. Put it down to the panic buying of paracetamol by everyone else.
Unfortunately, she'd seen some ODs on some weird and wonderful stuff that's previously only been confined to textbooks (although not quite as nasty as a proper paracetamol OD).
Guarantee it's been mentioned before but it's so good to have everyone being so polite and respectful of each other. Whether it's in the queue for the supermarket or out on my daily exercise, people are so eager to be polite, respecting personal space and be happy to just get along together.
Guaranteed to last, ooh 48 hours after restrictions are lifted though.
Loadsa stuff,
Finally sending all them foreign nurses and doctors home will.....
Oops, thought I was on daily mail forum.
For me the virus crisis has shown how completely irrelevant todays celebrity culture actually is , which is a good thing in a society thats become fixated on getting famous quick.
On a completely selfish level - it has finally made me contact my GP about my ridiculously high blood pressure (as possible high risk?), tried fixing it with diet and exercise but her words of "its that high that no amount of diet and exercise will bring it to safe levels" helped me accept I need help (tablets)
2 - have discovered the joy of the local woods, great place to walk with the little one and looks Ok to ride as well 😉
we should get a rebate on Car and Home insurance policies, RTA claims will be down and Burglaries will be down (can't go robbing houses if everyone is at home), though I doubt it. Perhaps if the daily fail kicks up a stink when avia post a huge jump in pre tax profits.
The rise of the STW Zwift gang!
Maybe the remoaners will finally see that the EU is a complete and utter waste of money and Brussels is only interested in preserving their own gravy train rather than helping any of its members in dire need like Italy and Spain.
+1 Needs to be said.
as a city-dweller, it certainly smells different.
Without having to go to the waters edge, I can now smell the salt and seaweed wafting in from the Clyde estuary.
I see long term reasons to be positive once we emerge from, not just this crisis, but the economic depression that will follow:
Cruises - not sure they will be in demand as much.
Long haul travel - less highly geared operators, higher cost, lower utilisation.
Supply chain diversity - More uk onshoring
Oil prices - decimated, unviable fields may mean electric vehicles uptake sooner
Somebody has probably mentioned something like this.
My work schedule has me out of the UK at the same time as all the MTB events I’d like to do this year around the North East. Ard Rock, Ard Moors, Northern Bezerker etc...
With luck, the dates will change, as opposed to cancelation, and I may be able to go!
Or, as I am currently trapped on the ship, racking up extra leave, I might be able to go if the dates miraculously stay the same!
One good thing may be that the government realises that the health of the nation is also their health.
There will be less talk of culling the herd, especially if we lose a few of the Establishment.
We may see a revived NHS.
Contingency planning - and strategic action plan in place; approved and ready to go.
Think about what could go wrong; if it happened, could we and would we respond?
Critical review of (fallacy of) just in time supply chain.
Linked to ^^^ an understanding that cheapest isn't best - leading to a more integrated supply chain for UK manufacturing.
Higher pay and more recognition for 'low paid, low skilled' workforce; as is now becoming appreciated, without them we would be royally trucked.
Proper funding of NHS; empowered medicos with much less power for 'the management'.
Growth of armed forces; they have been hollowed out by decades of cuts. For years we have blathered about the strength of our armed forces. Stop lying. We need serious investment.
So much more but....just opened the bar recently and I'm still serving myself.
As well as the decrease in air pollution on my street in the southside of Edinburgh, they have just announced a decrease in luvvy pollution - the festival is cancelled! I've had enough of it - it was fun for the first 3 years, but the last 17 years of getting harangued by self-important twits the second I walk out my front door was insufferable.
Its going to be great to have the city being "normal" for one August. I might actually get a seat in a beer garden!
Though this will not be good for a lot of businesses who would rely on the festival trade to make lots of money, especially since other trade in the year will be bad.
God, imagine if they cancel the horrific street party and I can go for a walk around town on hogmany!
These events were distorting the city.
If you ever get stuck at any maths content, there are amazing maths lectures done by an mit professor in YouTube. I could never be bothered to go to my lectures so I sat on my boxers and listened to these instead.
I see long term reasons to be positive once we emerge from, not just this crisis, but the economic depression that will follow:
Cruises – not sure they will be in demand as much.
Long haul travel – less highly geared operators, higher cost, lower utilisation.
Supply chain diversity – More uk onshoring
Oil prices – decimated, unviable fields may mean electric vehicles uptake sooner
Ive been on the receiving end of several articles and I for which describes our new world order as a reflection of an 80’s sci fi show - high tech on the one hand, more basic lifestyles on the other.
Capitlism and materialism in local industry defers to need of lifestyle elements e.g. medical; Business Class air travel rare, expensive and less available to the middle classes, EV ramped up after the positive pollution rate, less travel as we work from home more, more tech for phones and video working, higher taxation and a shuffle down the order of the level of disposable income, DIY vs new purchase and so on.
A very different balance of technology and sustainability in our lives in general.
I may have missed something (I dont watch every gov briefing) but Priti Patel seems to have been furloughed......
If people have less expendable income, hopefully there's less dogs about. If there's less dogs, there's less dog owners, as they're the real pests.
TiRed
SubscriberWe will come to appreciate in the UK, that we have not been paying enough for healthcare.
This is what I hope for. I really hope it happens but with this goverment...
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