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What is a good about Covid 19 related?
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Neilm on March 29, 2020, 02:25:45 pm ---The pollution levels have dropped considerably
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Indeed. Obvious though, but it has the benefit of showing everyone that pollution levels CAN be lowered a lot in a matter of just a few days by limiting human activities. It's not a matter of months or years.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: fourfathom on March 29, 2020, 03:06:21 pm ---A lower overall death rate this year, since the distancing and hand-washing will reduce the overall number of "non-novel" viral infections.
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Interesting point, that should indeed have an effect on many other viral infections. Probably even including AIDS, as people currently stopped going out at night in many areas, so probability of meeting someone new and having risky behaviors should also be a lot lower.
MK14:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 29, 2020, 03:02:09 pm ---We are likely to just yet increase globalization further
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Surely the stopping of so many international flights, in/out of many countries round the world. Is illustrating the advantages of reducing globalisation.
Some supplies are urgently needed to fight the virus (Ventilators/PPE (e.g. masks), medicines), then there are things like food and other supplies.
Too much reliance on other countries (and importing from them via aircraft flights), has put pressure on some things.
tl;dr
Maybe it will be the start, of LESS globalisation. With more homegrown manufacturing.
EDIT:
Let's put it another way.
With many highly globalised companies, struggling to continue manufacturing things (workers ill or isolating at home, or forced shutdowns due to virus), and potentially massive lack of market at the moment. E.g. New Car production/sales.
We may see a number of global companies failing. E.g. Airlines and Airline industries, Holiday-locations/Hotels, Many other sectors. Things may be very different, in years to come, as a result.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 29, 2020, 03:09:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: fourfathom on March 29, 2020, 03:06:21 pm ---A lower overall death rate this year, since the distancing and hand-washing will reduce the overall number of "non-novel" viral infections.
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Interesting point, that should indeed have an effect on many other viral infections. Probably even including AIDS, as people currently stopped going out at night in many areas, so probability of meeting someone new and having risky behaviors should also be a lot lower.
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There will also be fewer road deaths too.
I hope China continues their ban (the current ban is temporary) on the disgusting inhumane and unhygienic wet markets.
This isn't the first time a pandemic has been caused by poor treatment of animals. SARS, swine and bird flu pandemics have been linked to intensive animal farming. As long as this practise continues, we risk this happening again and again. Improved animal welfare, hygene and eating less meat are the solutions to this problem. Full disclosure: I'm not vegetarian myself.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 29, 2020, 03:51:04 pm ---This isn't the first time a pandemic has been caused by poor treatment of animals. SARS, swine and bird flu pandemics have been linked to intensive animal farming. As long as this practise continues, we risk this happening again and again. Improved animal welfare, hygene and eating less meat are the solutions to this problem. Full disclosure: I'm not vegetarian myself.
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That's quite right. Those pandemics all have something in common: they are of animal origin, and mutation/transmission to humans was triggered by intensive farming, often with very dubious hygiene and unreasonable density.
You're right pointing out that we should not just focus on our global behaviors here, but specifically on how we farm animals worldwide, as this has become a major source of infectious diseases.
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