What do you think the "silver linings" of this epidemic will be?

[BigmanPigman]

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]

1. Reinforces the Idea that Elections and Votes Matter?

And voting for a narcissistic idiot or not voting at all to flip the bird to the man is just screwing yourself?

[Phoenix61]

2. China has shut down the wildlife markets. nt

[Merlot]

5. Have they? that would be good. I thought they just went underground

[Phoenix61]

9. I'm sure some have but there will be fewer.

If they’re illegal fewer people will be exposed collaterally.

[Blue_true]

47. We clearly saw that only a handful of people, infected and undetected,

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]

17. I saw a Special Report and there are plenty in Thailand

and other Asian countries, they are just more secret now. The poor animals are taken from all over the world...heartbreaking.

[pecosbob]

24. I saw that as well...I'm not optimistic about these going away any time soon

too profitable.

[captain queeg]

3. Trump will be gone

[customerserviceguy]

49. That's the first thing

I thought of. I had my doubts that we could remove him a month ago, but I feel a bit more assured now.

[dalton99a]

4. A break for the earth's air and water

[snacker]

14. See my post #13

[mitch96]

29. Ironically Northern Italy's air polution went right thru the floor.. nobody's driving..

Hopefully this will give the air a break!!
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[MissB]

6. We may all realize that stuff we buy doesn't matter

Other than the basics.

Really though it’s gonna be a retail bloodbath.

[HarlanPepper]

10. I've never been into buying 'things'

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]

55. My partner lives in England...

And I’m in the States. The minute that ban is lifted, I’m out of here.
This has taught me love is what matters, not fear, and I shouldn’t have hesitated to fly last week while I had the chance.

[yonder]

20. +1. People don't need the latest device, car, doodads, etc. to live their lives.

Madison Avenue has been shoving crap before us for ages. A re-examination of that is way past due, IMO.

[llmart]

32. I realized that decades ago.

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. trump will forever be known as the virus man!

[Flaleftist]

8. Hopefully, more people will realize you shouldn't elect a fucking moron as president.

[Turin_C3PO]

11. The silver lining

is that if there’s an economic downturn (not hoping for one) that Trump will likely lose in a landslide.

[Ms. Toad]

12. Temporarily a decline in colds and seasonal flu.

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]

13. Just saw on Twitter

that the water flowing through the canals in Venice has cleared up. The fish are visible and the swans have returned.

[BigmanPigman]

19. A satellite showed how much pollution has been reduced

in Northern Italy since their lock down.

[demtenjeep]

15. no one named dumpt or pants will ever be president ever again?

that is my hope

[hatrack]

16. Tamping the dirt onto the grave of "Government - BAD!! Business - GOOD!!"

The same GOP bullshit as manifested over 40 years of accelerating ineptitude and metastasizing venality can finally be dispensed with.

[OhNo-Really]

31. Austerity now exposed as socially irresponsible bull crap

Disaster Capitalism is a cruel ruse to enrich the few at the expense of the many

[bamagal62]

18. Maybe we can tackle

The healthcare problem?

[Blue_true]

48. I hope so. nt

[lindysalsagal]

21. I might get a grandchild out of it!

Who knows? Stranger things have happened.

[BigmanPigman]

22. You mean like after the black out in NYC in the 60s?

Nine months later there was a baby boom.

[lindysalsagal]

25. Here's hoping!

[zackymilly]

23. More bidets, less toilet paper. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

28. That never occurred to me.

[OhNo-Really]

34. I saw some retrofittable options ☺️

[LonePirate]

26. Some tiny steps to improving health care in the US will likely occur including ...

-- 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]

27. I just read the article that this virus might actually end saving poeple

because there is less pollution (from factories being closed in China).

[mitch96]

30. One thing is for certain. there will be change. good?bad? I don't know but it WILL be different. nt

[mnhtnbb]

33. NEVER allow Republicans to ever

be in charge of the Executive or Legislative branches of the federal government.

[OhNo-Really]

35. 👆👆👆Winner

[empedocles]

36. The education of the trump voter - hopefully

May take a much worse disaster than is forcast now.

[DinahMoeHum]

37. Final nails in the coffin for "supply-side capitalism". . .

"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]

38. It may well prove finally once and for all that the GOP can't do economics or math very well

[pandr32]

39. My hope is more will work from home

I see this as the future. Why should so many commute to work each day? It creates stress, adds to pollution and strains families.

[Freddie]

41. Exactly

All jobs that can be done remotely should remain so! Maybe a monthly meeting or something.

[treestar]

54. +1

[MaryMagdaline]

40. None. People will suffer, die, lose jobs

Republicans will have total amnesia and will keep electing incompetent people

[Arthur_Frain]

42. Nothing lasting. Regrettably.

As much as I’d 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]

43. corporate rethinking...

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]

44. Fewer people with get and die from the regular flu this year and in several years to come

... behavior has changed and with likely stay changed for a few years

[Fiendish Thingy]

45. Trump will lose all 50 states, and Americans will embrace universal healthcare nt

[Flaleftist]

46. Maybe people will learn to not be so wasteful.

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]

50. Less faux viewers

[Squinch]

51. Parents will become reacquainted with their children, we will see what we truly need

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]

52. Stock buy backs are going to be scrutinized

I was just reading how lots of companies need a cash injection/bail out because they wasted their cash on stock buy backs.

[BigmanPigman]

57. Like the airlines.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

53. A few basics come to mind.....

* 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]

56. Always Keep A Nice

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]

59. I keep everything and had old wipes that were partially

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]

58. Super markets will be fully refreshed.

Nothing old for a while.

[Maru Kitteh]

60. I just want my husband and I to live, and not be too ill. nt