| Could this potentially have a good effect for the future? 18:31 - Mar 20 with 3485 views | MrSwerve |
Ok, obviously we don’t want to be in this position, the amount of people that are ill or dying is truly awful.
However...
Is this a WW2 moment, that teaches current generations (especially people born say 1980 onwards - I include myself in that) that you can’t have everything on demand, can’t waste food, have to think of ways to use everything to its maximum...not take family, friends, sports, pubs etc. for granted?
I hope that this might be one of the few positives to come out of this. [Post edited 20 Mar 2020 18:32]
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| Could this potentially have a good effect for the future? on 09:56 - Mar 28 with 642 views | Fireboy2 |
| Could this potentially have a good effect for the future? on 07:36 - Mar 28 by ladyjack |
We need more equality for the population and higher taxes for those earning the big bucks. |
Or taxing everyone fairly so that the mega rich dont have to spend money on clever accountants to help them dodge paying tax completely🤷â€â™‚ï¸ |  | | |
| Could this potentially have a good effect for the future? on 13:21 - Mar 28 with 577 views | Catullus |
FAO Jinxy, what if we would never learn the lesson any other way? The world has been drenched in platitudes for ages but nothing changed. We have all been told how much damage we are doing to out world but nothing really changed, major car manufacturers lied about emissions to beat new regs ffs! For every lesson we should have learned big business used whatever means to ensure they carried on as normally as possible. If this saves us, saves out world is it really too high a price?
The WW2 thing, the only real comparison is that it's a major event that's shaping our lives. Covid19 is, in one way at least, worse than WW2 because it's an invisible enemy. My grandpa would maybe rather come face to face with a uniformed nazi because at least when you can see the enemy you can fight it. I wish he was here to ask.
This could be good for our futures as long as we don't let the rich and powerful return to the way things were. I'm sure many of them want it back the way it was but with people worldwide having something to unify over, maybe we can make it better?
I can live in hope. I have at various times despaired over the future my son will grow into. If this pandemic means things will change for the better, if it becomes a better world I will say it was a price worth paying even if I'm not here to see it.....hopefully I will be though. The thought of not seeing my son grow up scares me more than dying does to be honest. |  |
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| Could this potentially have a good effect for the future? on 14:18 - Mar 28 with 555 views | Jinxy |
| Could this potentially have a good effect for the future? on 13:21 - Mar 28 by Catullus |
FAO Jinxy, what if we would never learn the lesson any other way? The world has been drenched in platitudes for ages but nothing changed. We have all been told how much damage we are doing to out world but nothing really changed, major car manufacturers lied about emissions to beat new regs ffs! For every lesson we should have learned big business used whatever means to ensure they carried on as normally as possible. If this saves us, saves out world is it really too high a price?
The WW2 thing, the only real comparison is that it's a major event that's shaping our lives. Covid19 is, in one way at least, worse than WW2 because it's an invisible enemy. My grandpa would maybe rather come face to face with a uniformed nazi because at least when you can see the enemy you can fight it. I wish he was here to ask.
This could be good for our futures as long as we don't let the rich and powerful return to the way things were. I'm sure many of them want it back the way it was but with people worldwide having something to unify over, maybe we can make it better?
I can live in hope. I have at various times despaired over the future my son will grow into. If this pandemic means things will change for the better, if it becomes a better world I will say it was a price worth paying even if I'm not here to see it.....hopefully I will be though. The thought of not seeing my son grow up scares me more than dying does to be honest. |
Hia Catullus. I agree in that change, unfortunately, only usually comes about due to harsh lessons. I used to work for the NCB (showing my age now - not even British Coal lol), and just about every single regulation came about as a direct result of an accident/incident. I have campaigned about some pedestrian traffic lights near me - cars whizzing through red lights. Despite excellent support, the view is that the authorities won't act even following one fatality, it would be more than that. The Kingsway another example?
I haven't suffered any loss due to Coronavirus yet, but could do as could all of us. The older generation, and those who have health issues, do not deserve to have their lives taken too soon and both they and their families would consider the resultant positive reactive change little solace. Also, young healthy people are not exempt from this horrible virus. Same applies to them and their families. That's what I mean by a harsh price - this is one hell of a cloud to get a silver lining. My professional world is all about proactivity (including accident/incident investigation) - maybe I haven't given up quite yet! Oh and wish my kids would listen too. I will offer one other "positive" mind you - this whole global disjointed exercise (some good, some shambolic) is good practice for the big one. Sorry! |  | | |
| Could this potentially have a good effect for the future? on 18:12 - Mar 28 with 512 views | Catullus |
| Could this potentially have a good effect for the future? on 14:18 - Mar 28 by Jinxy |
Hia Catullus. I agree in that change, unfortunately, only usually comes about due to harsh lessons. I used to work for the NCB (showing my age now - not even British Coal lol), and just about every single regulation came about as a direct result of an accident/incident. I have campaigned about some pedestrian traffic lights near me - cars whizzing through red lights. Despite excellent support, the view is that the authorities won't act even following one fatality, it would be more than that. The Kingsway another example?
I haven't suffered any loss due to Coronavirus yet, but could do as could all of us. The older generation, and those who have health issues, do not deserve to have their lives taken too soon and both they and their families would consider the resultant positive reactive change little solace. Also, young healthy people are not exempt from this horrible virus. Same applies to them and their families. That's what I mean by a harsh price - this is one hell of a cloud to get a silver lining. My professional world is all about proactivity (including accident/incident investigation) - maybe I haven't given up quite yet! Oh and wish my kids would listen too. I will offer one other "positive" mind you - this whole global disjointed exercise (some good, some shambolic) is good practice for the big one. Sorry! |
Something that has really annoyed me during this is, despite the crisis I have seen some truly idiotic driving, I got cut up by a DPD driver on a roundabout yesterday and I see people speeding around Skewen, the NHS could really do without any extra accidents!
My maternal grandpa was NCB which was ultimately the death of him. No one deserves an early death because of work and we should obviously save as many from Corona as possible but it will be a defining time in all of our lives and we can only hope we learn from it. | |
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