{"id":652,"date":"2020-03-21T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/?p=652"},"modified":"2024-01-29T20:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T19:38:59","slug":"sixth-day-at-home-positive-things-to-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Day at Home: Positive things to Covid19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember when I said I had to do something to consciously resist dark and depressing thoughts about the whole Covid crisis? Well, I have decided to concentrate on a variety of positive aspects and that works. Here&#8217;s a list that I will probably extend in due course. Maybe it will inspire you too.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">There may be more of a feeling of global solidarity<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Cash payments may become obsolete, indeed maybe all of them will be contact-less<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">We stay in contact with our elders more<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">We learn to work together and stay in touch with colleagues better<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">We wash our hands more, which is always a good thing<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Anti-vaccers may now finally shut up (alternatively, millions of people will get autism after summer 2021)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The ultra-rich may be a lot less rich &#8211; it may be needed to tax them a whole lot more more to enable countries to emerge from this crisis economically<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Carbon emissions have temporarily decreased a lot<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The Chinese may stop eating exotic animals (while they&#8217;re at it, maybe also rhino horns and other things that supposedly make boners easy to achieve) and licking bats<\/li>\n<li>Wet markets may be banned globally<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Pharmaceutical companies are going to invest into research towards more general vaccines that may work against as-yet-unknown viral strains, or maybe entirely different ways to kill viruses (sound waves? radiation? just thinking out loud)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">There will be ways to filter fake news from social media much more efficiently<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Trump and Johnson may conceivably no longer be in a leadership position<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Romantic consumerism (travelling to distant places) may become socially unacceptable (which includes a lot less CO2 emissions from airplanes)<\/li>\n<li>There may be better quality TV shows as shitty new ones can&#8217;t be made and they&#8217;ll have to resort to reruns of The A-Team, The Knight Rider, Airwolf, Miami Vice and Friends<\/li>\n<li>Even Trump can&#8217;t avoid non-re-election now (please please let this be true!)<\/li>\n<li>Scum birds (seagulls, crows, magpies) are less prevalent in the cities and towns, probably due to much less edible human waste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are also some things that may change in the near future that I am neutral about, I just think we&#8217;ll notice them&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Shaking hands may become a thing of the past<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last updated 16 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I said I had to do something to consciously resist dark and depressing thoughts about the whole Covid crisis? Well, I have decided to concentrate on a variety of positive aspects and that works. 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