by the time we get around to nationalising the amazon, it'll all be pastureland.
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RE: The coming months/years. If the ideal cure was invented right now, and the world was crop dusted tonight with it so that in the morning the virus was gone completely, the world has still changed significantly and will not return to it's former self ever.
Why not? Because we will never be completely free of it? Because pandemics like COVID-19 are going to become more common? Or because we have started living in a different way and you can't simply turn back the clock?
I don't necessarily disagree but I'm very uneasy about the "the world has changed get used to it buddy" narrative that you see pushed in some quarters .... as sometimes there are agendas at work there that have nothing to do with the virus per se ......
Tell me why i'm wrong challenge.
Also the sooner we do it, the less time we need it to be effective, as the sooner we mitigate the virus spread, the less time will be needed to bring case numbers down towards zero.You're not wrong. We clearly need to go to Level 5 for a period. It's not a question of "if" ... it's a question of "when". The sooner we do it, the less people will die. The overall economy has not collapsed (even though some sectors have been decimated) so we can borrow the money to support those who will be put out of work (again).
Unless the reasons for the flare-up after we did so well up to the summer, are addressed
Working from home - Some hate it, some love it and there are economics depending on wether a company was renting or buying. We are not going back to our old workplace.
Socialising - My goddam favourite bar on the whole green earth is about 95% chance of A: never opening again and B: if it does, never being what it was again. I'm sure you have a local example of this.
Cities: Not in love as much as we thought. I know property people in the west who are working round the clock trying to hit the demand of people leaving the eastern commuter belt.
Recession: Unlike anything in living memory unless you are about 105 years old. We are close to 60% of what we are bailing out the boomtime banks on in the hole now, so a cure in the morning still wont fix budget 2020.
Global Dynamics: In massice flux. I don't know the outcomes. China's resilience is sorta based on USA's wealth, who are on the brink of moving into a slightly soviet insular mode. UK will DEFO want to out-tax haven us in about 6 months. etc etc.
Air Travel: It was kinda bullshit to begin with, now really it should be for families and work, not drunk me's looking to get sunburnt.
I tell you what I miss though, practice rooms. I haven't had the nerve to step inside one with other sweaty humans making the rock since before lockdown, I miss it immensely. Hopefully we can repurpose a few abandoned penthouse apartments in the docklands (rocklands??) for spacious, socially distanced studios...
I think a big boom post this will be suburban co-working/hot desk facilities. Don't want to get on a train or bus for an hour into the docklands/town/whereever but for whatever reason can't or don't want to work in your gaff then why not use a space 10 minutes down the road that has good internet and space for you to work.Sure. It's going to be hard to put that genie back into the bottle. It's a whole new front on the struggle between capital and labour. The right to a desk? The right to have a separation of home and work life? The right not be to be surveilled in your "home" office? Also opens up a whole new class divide between those who can work from home and those who can't.
I think a big boom post this will be suburban co-working/hot desk facilities. Don't want to get on a train or bus for an hour into the docklands/town/whereever but for whatever reason can't or don't want to work in your gaff then why not use a space 10 minutes down the road that has good internet and space for you to work.
Why for families and not aging singletons?Air Travel: It was kinda bullshit to begin with, now really it should be for families and work, not drunk me's looking to get sunburnt.
Emer Currie, Fine Gael senator, was running on setting this up in Blanch over the past year or two. Dunno if she did in the end but it seems like a Fine Gael solution alright. Outsource it to literally anyone and away they go.I think a big boom post this will be suburban co-working/hot desk facilities. Don't want to get on a train or bus for an hour into the docklands/town/whereever but for whatever reason can't or don't want to work in your gaff then why not use a space 10 minutes down the road that has good internet and space for you to work.
Why for families and not aging singletons?
I don't see that necessarily has to be the case. For specific pubs and bars who have gone, or are going, bust then yes. And it's a tragedy. I live in fear of Neary's closing down and not opening again. But I don't see why, in a Corona-free world, we can't do the same type of socialising.
We've had recessions before. As I understand it, economic indicators (whatever the fuck they actually are) are so far nowhere near as catastrophic as feared. Capitalism seems to be fine with a load of death. But we'll see I suppose.
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