Covid 19 Coronavirus

[garyboy]

I believe this 'panicdemic' will reveal many things about how the World works and just how fragile the Capitalist '1st world' system is.
When we're all locked down and can't go out 'consuming' stuff maybe it will highlight the fact that we all buy, eat, drink and throw away far too much crap.
When we can't work and pay for all the stuff we have (but don't own) it will highlight just how deep society is caught in the credit system.
When massive FTSE 250 companies start dropping like flies it will highlight how much of our sacred pensions are overexposed to Corporate fraud all around the globe ..... the Norton case will look like childs play and the Banking crisis of 2008 will be shown as the warning that we didn't learn from.
I hope these things don't happen because our families are part of society but we seriously need to take a look at ourselves and the unsustainable world we contribute to.
On a positive note the roads should be empty so start stockpiling cheap petrol for the bikes before the OPEC cartel regains control of the oil price.

Spot on and well written

Just shows how much Is frittered away on crap and unnecessary stuff

How much some people are in debt - this could see a lot of debt being recalled

Years ago most Mums would be at home looking after the kids and this isolation would be easier to manage, plus in the 1970’s people were more thrifty and could cook real meals, instead of ping-ping ones

One good thing is, there might be something altruistic happening where communities come together to help each other, as without each other we cannot function

Thanks for writing it

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I agree .. a very insightful piece of writing.

I have long wondered how the world can be run on the nefarious and imaginary `confidence` and not based on real things you can actually touch .. how we base our value of things say on a brightly coloured rock, and invest in gooky paintings.
How peoples pensions, for which they have scimped and scraped all their lives, can suddenly be raided by people in power.

`How the world works ` has always been a mystery to me too

[garyboy]

I forgot to mention my incomprehension and dismay at our reliance on the gamblers and fraudsters of the stock exchange in their betting schemes to make money for themselves.

[DavidS]

I love the fact that one of the reasons the UK have cited for keeping schools open is that to close them could result in a drop of up to 3% in GDP. Significantly less of a drop that most economists (including the government’s own) predict will happen due to Brexit.
Cheers

I don’t remember us getting a referendum vote on Coronavirus though.

[Jak*]

If we had there would be plenty that would have voted for it in order to keep those pesky foreigners out

[Asgard]

If we had there would be plenty that would have voted for it in order to keep those pesky foreigners out

Oh FFS, give it a rest

[Jak*]

Just about sums it up.

Cheers

[Tonibe63]

Just about sums it up.

Cheers

Sadly so very true.

[bill_qaz]

Funnier than him is the guy in the background trying to load the mobility scooter into the car that the user just gets out of and climbs into the car totally unaided

[Rederic]

It’s getting bad now

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[Tonibe63]

My Wife is a specialist asthma and COPD nurse in a semirural medical centre. On Friday a patient was seen using the wall mounted dispenser to fill up her own personal little bottle of hand sanitizer which she then put back into her handbag before leaving. However the patient didn't sanitize her hands after filling up her bottle thereby potentially getting germs on her hands from the previous person who had pressed the dispenser with their own unsanitised hands ....... doh!!!!