If there is a silver lining to this clusterfuck....

[RandySF]

it's that home cooking has never been better.

[hlthe2b]

1. Not at my home... But no one will starve

[Polybius]

2. I dunno

My liverwurst sandwich sucked the other day.

[4139]

3. The real silver lining is our actions on the covid19 is driving down cases and deaths by regular flu

... hand washing, social distancing and the general shut down also helps with the regular flu. Also, because of the heighten awareness, those with the regular flu have been seeking medical help at a far greater rate than normal.


This years regular flu is nasty, but not as nasty as covid

[OriginalGeek]

4. we just bought a slow-cooker today

our old one gave up the ghost a while back and we never got around to replacing it. But now seemed like a good time - I guess my wife enjoys the set it and forget it way of cooking.

it was only 20 bucks and it comes with a smaller pot for warming cheese and dips and whatnot.

[underpants]

5. My wife and daughter made me (us) a full Thanksgiving dinner Friday night

We are on it the rest of the weekend

[MissB]

6. Yeah I'm cooking 1-3 meals/day

Sometimes Dh cooks breakfast for himself and sometimes for me, or I cook my own or for us. Lunch is generally leftovers except on the weekends, when I usually cook lunches too.

Dinners are pretty easy for me- I’ve almost always cooked dinner. Since I’m here all day, at some point I’ll look at what I have planned to make sure I’ve pulled everything together.

Tonight’s dinner is beef stew (instant pot!) and homemade focaccia bread. Dh has an aversion to eating last night’s leftovers for lunch the next day so I’ll likely be making lunch tomorrow, as we ate the last of the weekend leftovers today for lunch.

One good thing for us is that we just got a new counter depth fridge (other fridge died) so we suddenly have much less space. Less space to lose things and grow science experiments! We’ve been great about cycling through things since we’ve both started working from home.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. I imagine there will be many more silver linings to come

We cannot know what they would be right now, but I think what is happening now will definitely impact what we do in the future. Here's one thing I happen to be thinking about today. There's a lot of work that needs to be done for our public schools to actually implement online classes. Some people seem to think that is happening now, but it isn't. The schools aren't prepared for it and the schools have to worry about abiding by a whole bunch of laws when they do online learning. The feds have not made online learning an easy thing for k-12. Perhaps they might take it more seriously after all this? I think if the teacher unions lobbied they could use this whole situation to get more support from the feds for online k-12 learning.

[lunatica]

9. I would rather they find a cure so kids can socialize

The prospect of children no being able to play and socialize together is not an improvement. It’s a tragedy.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

10. The point is if they want the schools to use online learning in event of emergencies

or even in the place of snow days, then that needs to be planned for and they have to help the schools get set up for this. They just declared this state of emergency and asked the schools to do online learning, but it isn't that simple.

[lunatica]

12. Ok. I get your point

I retired from UC Berkeley in 2018 and they already have everything that’s needed for remote administration and courses. They do have an army of IT people and every department or cluster of smaller departments have them. For years now they have also implemented a system where the staff computers can be fixed of normal glitches remotely. The technology is all there. It’s just a matter of setting up the system. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel. The transition to remote courses and administration has been very quick.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

14. K-12 public schools are different than universities

in that they have to contend with all these laws intended to protect the privacy of minors on the internet. Every single web resource has to be OK'ed by the school district. They have to set up agreements with companies saying that they'll protect student data. They have to get lawyers involved. Basically, there's a huge amount of red tape to plow through just to get a new site approved for use with the kids. If the school districts aren't careful, they can get sued and lose money. They also have to deal with financial inequality among the students. They can't do online learning unless all kids have computers and an internet connection. Well, at this time Spectrum said they would provide free internet to low income families, but the schools still weren't prepared for this so they can't adequately make use of this resource.

[lunatica]

17. It'll be tough and will take time

But it’ll take far less time than it took to do all that in the normal way, meaning in a not rushed, no panic way the Universities have.

[lunatica]

8. Another silver lining is no CO2 is being put in the air

because the entire world has stopped driving and flying.

I’m looking forward to seeing the results.

[tavernier]

11. I've seen way more birds here in the keys.

Flocks and flocks of pelicans suddenly. And yesterday I saw a whole family of woodpeckers.

[lunatica]

13. Nature tends to come back very quickly when given a chance.

I remember an article I read once many years ago. Do you remember when Somalia had no government and for a while it was taken over by deadly gangs and pirates who highjacked oil tankers?

The silver lining there was that before the pirates fishing had depleted the marine life but when fishing boats and ocean liners and tankers stayed away after a couple of years the marine life bounced right back.

[beaglelover]

16. You can DEFINITELY see the difference in air quality here in Los Angeles county.

It's great! So clear outside. The mountains look lovely!

[lunatica]

19. That's great news!

Once this is over and someone else is President we should all fight hard to stop CO2 emissions. Companies will have learned that people working remotely is a great idea. They’ll be able to save money just on building and office space rentals!

[aikoaiko]

15. I taught my 14-year old how to make instant ramen with a poached egg.

He is hooked.

And now I know he'll survive college.

[lunatica]

20. You taught him more than that

He now knows the basics of Italian pasta cooking! All he has to learn to do is open spiced up tomato cans and voilá. Dinner!

I taught my son to cook at about that age. I also made him launder his own clothes because I figured most young men are pampered so much that they have to rely on a girlfriend or wife to cook and do laundry for them. It worked.

If I had had a daughter I would have taught her the basics of using tools and the ways to find out how to fix things.

True self reliance and independence is a real life changer. You’re doing great!

[Midnight Writer]

18. My hope is that this crisis will spawn a strong labor movement, as in UNIONS.

A stark demonstration that the employers don't give a good goddamn about the workers, even in matters of life and death.

In today's corporate world, most workers have never met, don't even know who are, the people making decisions about their future.

The asshole that orders workers into danger, the asshole that decides to "trim" the workforce, the asshole that "downsizes" benefits. They could be anonymous hedge fund traders who provide nothing to the business or the economy, moving people around like chess pieces.

It is past time for workers to get in the faces of these assholes and demand respect.