Anything good coming out of Covid?

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Gene&Mary

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There's a whole lot of bad stuff coming out of Covid but what are the unexpected good things?

1. Air pollution is decreased.

2. We can drive thru Seattle on I-5 any time on any day and still stay at or near the speed limit.

3. Most everyone is friendly and waves during my daily walks thru the neighborhood.

Any others?
 
I've heard some millennials refer to it as the "geriatric-errator" and "boomer-errator", so I guess to some that is a good thing...
 
Time away from the daily hustle, hopefully to reflect. Much more time with children and spouses. Respite from the mundane immediate, allowing for greater focus on the less urgent but more fundamentally important. ( Covey calls it "sharpening the saw".)

Many appear to have discovered outdoor activities as a healthy pastime.

65 mph through the downtown convention center in Seattle rush hour traffic!

New opportunities to be of service, and for personal growth.

It's really our own fault if we don't take advantage of the silver linings this pandemic offers.
 
Living on the ranch and being less rushed. For the past 27 years we have worked really hard on the Buffalo Horn Ranch and when we started to slow down a few years ago we started to travel a lot (14 countries in 2 years). Now we are living on the ranch with a smaller bison herd and less ranch work. We have my 88 year old mother living with us and we are finding time for the 1001 small projects and hobbies that we have not had time for. Our plans for 2020 had not involved airplanes for the year, but lots of ground travel to BC and into the US in the fall. All of that is on hold for the year, maybe two. I may get to Vancouver Island this summer??? I definitely will not cross the US border or get onto an airplane until I am vaccinated or whatever else it takes. Sometimes we try to do too much in life and this year I am looking forward to planting more potatoes.
 
Where I live....maybe....the economy is flat out crashing down hard. Oil is really down too....I know it sounds strange, but here we actually have 5 seasons.....the four regular ones and the tourist season. I think we are down to 4 this year and that isn't bad, that is unless you own a charter fishing business, commercial fish, run a bed and breakfast, drive a bus, operate a campground, give tours, are a pilot, or just about anything else other than the medical profession. And then there is that risk...yikes!
 
westward":2lg4g32t said:
Ssobol:
You have a very unique conception of the phrase “ good things “ :lol:
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Just showing some of the side effects of the Covid-19.

Although being able to drive 100+ mph on the Capitol Beltway is every DC area commuter's dream.
 
Mother Nature will attempt to correct population loss from COVID-19 fatalities.*

Aye.

* Watch the birth rate go WAY up starting next Nov - Dec.
* Whuch you doin'?
 
Young people are finally learning to cook! They're also finding new things to eat - like canned goods . . . and that they like them.

Haven't heard anything about the KETO diet since this started.
 
Humans are an arrogant species (I suspect all species would be if they too could think). Many no doubt many believe that evolution's end product was the human species. Nothing could be further from the truth. (Note it can be argued that the main result of evolution is bacteria, and that most of life, and certainly primates, is just an insignificant side branch in the tree of life. But that's another story.)

Perhaps covin19 has taught our species some humility.
 
rbfconstruction":1tr7ne0t said:
Glad it made it to the Whitehouse? un believable....
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Yep. It'll help convince certain members of the government that the coronavirus is a real threat and not a plot or "fake news". Also to let them personally experience what the effects of an Covid-19 infection can actually do to people.

A number of people in the White House are in the same demographic that some in government have considered sacrificial, so let them make a few sacrifices.

You could argue that certain bacteria are the most successful organisms on the planet. They have genetically engineered a large and very capable physical vessel to transport and protect them without lifting a finger. These vessels are called humans.
 
nordicstallion":3k511al8 said:
Virus finally made it into the whitehouse,maybe there is a god after all!!
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I am sad to see this statement. It is what is called "Schadenfreude"*;
a contradiction to one of the common teachings past on to us today
from most of the Great Thinkers who came before us (Buddha, Mohammad,
Jesus, Sufis, others): sympathetic joy, the opposite of schadenfreude.

I realize the writer may just not be aware and harbor no ill will.

Aye.

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Schadenfreude, German: lit. ('harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. [It] is a complex emotion, where rather than feeling sympathy towards someone's misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail. This emotion is displayed more in children than adults. However, adults also experience schadenfreude, though generally concealed.
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