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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do you think the "silver linings" of this epidemic will be?
As we go through this and once it is over and we have the time to study and digest what we have experienced, what will we learn that ends up benefiting the planet, people and animals? How will we learn and and what may we alter in our behavior, economically, politically, socially, as consumers, medically, scientifically, nationally and internationally? Will we change our values, perceptions and perspectives?
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)And voting for a narcissistic idiot or not voting at all to flip the bird to the man is just screwing yourself?
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)If theyre illegal fewer people will be exposed collaterally.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)can totally infect a nation. So underground and fewer won't be good enough, China must aggressively pursue shutting down the live animal trade everywhere.
One of the unfortunate circumstances is that we still have people in this country that eat live animals and get those animal's blood on their hands and breath in dust from their fur or feathers. The practice in our country is very isolated and low level, though.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)and other Asian countries, they are just more secret now. The poor animals are taken from all over the world...heartbreaking.
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)too profitable.
captain queeg
(10,188 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I thought of. I had my doubts that we could remove him a month ago, but I feel a bit more assured now.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)snacker
(3,619 posts)mitch96
(13,895 posts)Hopefully this will give the air a break!!
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MissB
(15,807 posts)Other than the basics.
Really though its gonna be a retail bloodbath.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)Travel was always my thing. Probably lost forever now. Ah well, i got to see a lot of cool places and meet a lot of cool people in the process. It was a good run.
a la izquierda
(11,794 posts)And Im in the States. The minute that ban is lifted, Im out of here.
This has taught me love is what matters, not fear, and I shouldnt have hesitated to fly last week while I had the chance.
yonder
(9,664 posts)Madison Avenue has been shoving crap before us for ages. A re-examination of that is way past due, IMO.
llmart
(15,536 posts)We heard these same prognostications after 9/11 and we all saw how that didn't happen. We heard them again after the mortgage meltdown and it didn't happen then either.
Those of us that are not recreational shoppers and not addicted to "stuff" will continue to be like that. I can only speak for myself, but I am so glad I've never been attached to things. It is sad to me how much of people's lives are spent pursuing the latest shiny object and then having to maintain those objects and then whining about how they never have any time for anything.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Turin_C3PO
(13,982 posts)is that if theres an economic downturn (not hoping for one) that Trump will likely lose in a landslide.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)The current societal pressure to wash will likely create habits that will go beyone the current epidemic.
(I have habits I developed 10 years ago to avoid the plague my bosses insisted they were not infected with, in anticipation of surgery I didn't want to have to delay.)
snacker
(3,619 posts)that the water flowing through the canals in Venice has cleared up. The fish are visible and the swans have returned.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)in Northern Italy since their lock down.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)that is my hope
hatrack
(59,585 posts)The same GOP bullshit as manifested over 40 years of accelerating ineptitude and metastasizing venality can finally be dispensed with.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Disaster Capitalism is a cruel ruse to enrich the few at the expense of the many
bamagal62
(3,257 posts)The healthcare problem?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)Who knows? Stranger things have happened.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Nine months later there was a baby boom.
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)zackymilly
(2,375 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)LonePirate
(13,420 posts)-- Some polling movement to universal health care in this country
-- Improved hospital preparedness for the next epidemic
-- Possible vast growth in medical research and technologies
-- Improved methods for safely fast-tracking the development, testing and implementation of vaccines
-- Increased demands for a national paid leave bill and some companies finally offering it
-- More global cooperation to handle future threats
Other possible ramifications include:
-- Increased long term work from home opportunities as companies realize they can continue with less office rent
-- More attention paid to the child care crisis in the US
-- More states adopting vote by mail
-- Improved supply chains of various types
-- Educational reform/improvements?
LisaL
(44,973 posts)because there is less pollution (from factories being closed in China).
mitch96
(13,895 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,386 posts)be in charge of the Executive or Legislative branches of the federal government.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)May take a much worse disaster than is forcast now.
DinahMoeHum
(21,786 posts)"Reaganomics" and Milton Friedman economics take their last breath.
Methinks we're going to have an economic/political shift like in 1932.
Just my 2 cents.
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#newrostrong
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)pandr32
(11,581 posts)I see this as the future. Why should so many commute to work each day? It creates stress, adds to pollution and strains families.
All jobs that can be done remotely should remain so! Maybe a monthly meeting or something.
MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)Republicans will have total amnesia and will keep electing incompetent people
Arthur_Frain
(1,849 posts)As much as Id like to see a general pick up of the more basic public hygiene practices that people have been finally doing, that they should have been doing all along, the reality is that one of our most strongly developed mechanisms is denial. Before a year is out, everything will be back to business as usual.
Watched it happen to a friend who had a cardiac event at a very young age. I remarked when he was on the mend that every meal must seem like a banquet. He said nah, you pretty much swing right back into the usual.
Trueblue Texan
(2,429 posts)This morning my company had case conferences by phone. I know it saved them a lot of money, even while they are losing clients. The company had to pay no mileage to the meeting, no hourly wage for clinicians discussing cases and chatting after conference. They saved money. At the moment, they are hurting due to patients canceling visits for fear of exposure to coronavirus. But when the worst of it is over, the companies will have discovered ways to save money.
I hope, for myself, that I learn to use the home time in creative ways. Too often my evening hours were spent in default activities. Maybe now I'll be forced to consider what to do with myself instead of being drawn along by proximal currents.
4139
(1,893 posts)... behavior has changed and with likely stay changed for a few years
Fiendish Thingy
(15,606 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)It only takes so much TP to get the job done. Eat those leftovers in the fridge instead of leaving them there until they have to be tossed. etc. etc.
Ferryboat
(922 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)in terms of material things and distraction and action and find we need much less than we think, we will slow down our rate of pollution for a while and let the earth heal just a little, we will read and think be with ourselves more than usual.
TheFarseer
(9,322 posts)I was just reading how lots of companies need a cash injection/bail out because they wasted their cash on stock buy backs.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)* Slowing down the madhouse pace of the world (which in the big picture of things is for naught).
* Allowing many young generations to observe the value and beauty of quiet solitude at home,
* Allow families and friends to reconnect and perhaps even reunite,
* Give the planet's atmospheric and water stores a slight break from pollution,
* Demonstrate to cultures around the globe the value of keeping things local and resisting rampant globalization, and..
* Shake us all into the clear realities and dangers of free, dirt-cheap globalized trade and travel.
and......
Force the world to recognize us introverts as real, valid people........
Just to name a few......
RobinA
(9,888 posts)stock of nonperishable basics on hand in case of emergency. I used to buy wipes all the time. For no reason, I would just forget I already had them. One day about 6 months ago I said, What the hell do I need all these wipes for? So I started using them up. Never again.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)dried out. I poured some water in the container and use them to disinfect my car handles and steering wheel. YUK! When I used the first one on my steering wheel it turned brown. I hope everyone is remembering to do the stuff on their cars that they touch.
Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)Nothing old for a while.