coronavirus any positives ?

[TIGHTCHOKE]

6 hours ago, ehb102 said:

Amazing how working a couple of days at home is now possible for so many people. Turns out there's a massive culture of presenteeism that is unrelated to actually getting work done. My other half working from home two days at week makes my life so much easier, not because he isn't actually working when at home, but because it cuts out three hours of car driving each day. That's six hours a week more he is at home. 

Ah, domestic bliss!

[bruno22rf]

Since the whole affair kicked off most of our street have taken part in social gatherings (keeping a safe distance apart), we usually have a Coffee morning on Friday and then a boozy music night on Saturdays where we all get to choose a song or two and put the world right. Some neighbours that we have not really spoken to for years have become close friends and the street seems to be a more united and homely place.

[oldypigeonpopper]

7 hours ago, enfieldspares said:

Whatever the positives it has come, and will come, at a very very high price.

Hello, have to agree on this post, but like many say health is very important but I think many many people's finances are going to be drastically cut, the jobs market will call change us pensioners can wether the storm but I do worry how our younger generation will fare and we must include the mental health as a new pandemic, I would even go as far as reducing the retirement age so those who can retire do leaving hope for those leaving education or now looking for work have that employment to bring up new families and a life that can be good in years to come

 

[islandgun]

1 hour ago, bruno22rf said:

Since the whole affair kicked off most of our street have taken part in social gatherings (keeping a safe distance apart), we usually have a Coffee morning on Friday and then a boozy music night on Saturdays where we all get to choose a song or two and put the world right. Some neighbours that we have not really spoken to for years have become close friends and the street seems to be a more united and homely place.

Good stuff .. there does seem to be a bit more unity about, with people helping others especially the elderly and those isolating

[bluesj]

11 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, have to agree on this post, but like many say health is very important but I think many many people's finances are going to be drastically cut, the jobs market will call change us pensioners can wether the storm but I do worry how our younger generation will fare and we must include the mental health as a new pandemic, I would even go as far as reducing the retirement age so those who can retire do leaving hope for those leaving education or now looking for work have that employment to bring up new families and a life that can be good in years to come

 

I was thinking much the same, it could be a plan for a longer term recovery from this. We all know that we are going to be paying for it for many many  years and I think it would be cheaper to pay us old **** not to work for the few years we have left than it would be to pay the youngsters for a life time

[Raja Clavata]

One of the key positives for me is that the upheaval we have all experienced appears to have driven a good number of people to spend a little bit of time in introspection and evaluating what really matters in life in the wider sense. To me that equates to individual and collective well-being, even if just in small ways.

12 hours ago, bluesj said:

I was thinking much the same, it could be a plan for a longer term recovery from this. We all know that we are going to be paying for it for many many  years and I think it would be cheaper to pay us old **** not to work for the few years we have left than it would be to pay the youngsters for a life time

This makes sense. Before we really now the impact we need to get the economy and life going again, that requires kids back at school as one of the enablers for this and also relevant to not needing to pay / compensate them for life over a lost generation of (lack of) schooling.

[ehb102]

16 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Ah, domestic bliss!

Six more hours I can go to paid work! 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Just now, ehb102 said:

Six more hours I can go to paid work! 

There are plenty of heads out there that need your help.

[Mice!]

48 minutes ago, Raja Clavata said:

This makes sense. Before we really now the impact we need to get the economy and life going again, that requires kids back at school as one of the enablers for this and also relevant to not needing to pay / compensate them for life over a lost generation of (lack of) schooling.

It doesn't look like its happening anytime soon?

It seems obvious that people can't work if their kids are at home.

[Raja Clavata]

1 minute ago, Mice! said:

It doesn't look like its happening anytime soon?

It seems obvious that people can't work if their kids are at home.

The pressure appears to be mounting, and rightly so in my opinion. For the vast majority of young people of schooling / studying age, there will be very few whose lives have been enriched through this, lots of educational debt.

[Mice!]

6 minutes ago, Raja Clavata said:

The pressure appears to be mounting, and rightly so in my opinion. For the vast majority of young people of schooling / studying age, there will be very few whose lives have been enriched through this, lots of educational debt.

I don't see primary age suffering to much in the long term but it might depend on what they've been doing at home.

My kids want to be back, just to play with friends, in many ways they have really enjoyed things but its getting to the point that enough is enough. 

I'm sure many won't have enjoyed the time.

[Bobba]

21 minutes ago, Raja Clavata said:

The pressure appears to be mounting, and rightly so in my opinion. For the vast majority of young people of schooling / studying age, there will be very few whose lives have been enriched through this, lots of educational debt.

Interestingly, in response to a high court legal challenge by private schools to its lock down policies the Government has formally admitted that it's school lockdown policy was "a request not a directive". Consequently many private schools are planning to open in Sept come what may. Putting to one side the needs of public schools to generate fee income to keep their schools going, it does raise the question why, given the Governments admission that their policy is not a directive,  LEA schools and academies are not now announcing similar plans. Especially for those pupils who, critically, have "O" and "A" levels on the horizon

[ehb102]

4 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

There are plenty of heads out there that need your help.

Weirdly I've ended up back doing marketing consultancy. The novelty will wear off as soon as people start saying "We know you're right, but we aren't going to make the effort to do what you suggest."

 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

1 hour ago, ehb102 said:

Weirdly I've ended up back doing marketing consultancy. The novelty will wear off as soon as people start saying "We know you're right, but we aren't going to make the effort to do what you suggest."

As long as they pay for your expertise, if they decide not to follow it you've done your bit.

[ehb102]

The lack of head lice. That's another unforeseen benefit of social distancing.