Think of the positive side of the COVID-19 pandemic!

[Anonymous]

If you are still staying at home, unemployed, and reading this, then your head may already be filled with so many negative thoughts. When can I safely go back to work? How am I going to find another job that will pay the bills during this pandemic and economic recession/depression? How am I going to feed myself? Are my family and friends okay?

But hey, look on the positive side! The COVID-19 pandemic has already brought numerous changes to the global society.

Show Your Positivity!

Public Health Awareness

Asian countries, despite being so close to China, seem to have managed the pandemic fairly well. People tend to look out for each other and don't want to get each other sick. Wearing face masks in Asia isn't unusual, even before the pandemic. What makes this pandemic different is the scale. This pandemic has forced Western nations to go into lock-downs and increase public health awareness among the populace.

Keep your distance!

Emergency Preparedness

During the pandemic's early days, there was a supply shortage in supermarkets and retail stores. Totally unprepared people went to the market all at once and waited in long lines, and they all wanted to stockpile on supplies - including toilet paper, food and guns. Well, this just shows to you that it is important to be prepared for a (aka natural/man-made disaster).

If you are not prepared to survive through a disaster, then you can always prepare yourself to die and rest in peace forever.

Toilet paper power!

Environmental Protection

Hopefully, this pandemic has brought enough awareness for environmental protection. If we don't protect the environment, then the world's oceans will become de-populated, leading to human starvation (as many humans depend on fishing as an occupation), the land will become de-forested for agriculture and human development, finishing the mass extinction that we are currently in, the air will be filled with pollution and greenhouse gases, warming the planet up, and massive pandemics.

Animal agriculture is unsustainable!

Universal Basic Income and Social Welfare

As soon as the state governments mandated lock-downs, employers held onto employees on the payroll for little/no pay or laid off them. Without a paycheck or a job, people struggled to pay for the bills and rent/mortgage. Tens of millions of people filed for unemployment benefits. The US unemployment benefits are not equipped to handle a massive pandemic, with such a huge unemployment rate. What the USA needs is better social welfare for its citizens, perhaps experimenting with Universal Basic Income.

If every single legal adult citizen of the USA receives $2,500 a month ($30,000 a year) as a Universal Basic Income check funded by a robot tax or a wealth tax, then that can raise the minimum standard of living. The poor average Joe may be able to afford the basic necessities, and middle-class and rich may have more assets to re-start the economy. The UBI may just be temporary, only to serve the needs in the post-pandemic world; when the economy recovers to pre-pandemic conditions, the UBI may be removed.

Universal basic income - will it work?

[glock33sig357]

It separates those who are logical from the illogical thinkers, we can see who are truly racist in society and how the injustices people of African decent have faced for centuries are now being shown to the world and it still it goes on. The using of a pandemic to gain political points against each other without consideration to the millions that died and are going to die and it shows that the rich will take advantage of the measures put in place to assist the poor & the small businesses and leave nothing for their survival.

[najekim]

The best thing is I'm working from home. But I'm still putting 50-60 hours a week for work. At least I can have a smoke while working (Yah!) and a beer every once in a while.

[Anonymous]

Public Health Awareness
One should be aware of this anyway. But the amount of "wash hands" advertisement and signs I see is alarming. Makes one wonder if people know basic hygiene practices & how filthy people really are.

Emergency Preparedness
As someone who is medically trained, ex-military & who has survived out in the bush (Rockies) as a challenge with (native/aboriginal) friends for a week... all I can say is the American idea of preparedness is comical. And utterly pathetic. You can't eat toilet papers. Going through stores when COVID first became bad some of the items that were looted from shelves made me wonder at the painfully limited intelligence of the buyers. For example baking goods & condiments were emptied. Canned goods, you had your pick cause majority buyer was a brain-damaged idiot.

Environmental Protection
No. What it's going to do is eliminate producers as has happened - producers have had to close their facilities - so that means prices are going to skyrocket. Basic supply & demand. If you've a demand that you can't supply it means produce costs more. You've attended at least high school right? It's exactly what happened with the Great Depression.

As costs sky rocket & people remain jobless more people are going to starve & more people are going to die. The long run backlash will kill more people than COVID ever would.

Universal Basic Income and Social Welfare
No. All this will do is run towns, cities and eventually countries into the ground with debt. Supporting a bunch of people who are too lazy to try and find another job is an economic drain that places can not support for long without serious repercussions.

As things progress that means things such as hospitals will suffer, infrastructure will suffer, emergency services will suffer, etc. You need money for such things & money doesn't grow on trees. Importing & exporting will suffer.

Richer people & businesses will have to pay more in taxes. Businesses will then as such only hire the best employees rather than waste money employing middle ground or less. So the people will remain on welfare & continually drag their towns, cities & countries down.

[888theGreat]

1) There is nothing positive about Universal Socialist income. It destroys the economy. It runs up more debt. Puts the country in a bigger hole. It has been tried by Russia and it failed.

2) We don't know how many people really died in Asia. Especially China , based on population , probably 2 million at least died because they were trying to hide the information. They didn't want world to know they were making biological weapons. China doesn't test as many. They don't use autopsies like US. If you are a farmer and die , they just kick you off side of a mountain, or throw you in unmarked hole somewhere.

3) Only a young female that thinks she is smart with no life experience and no facts on history would think this.

4) Only good thing about the lies and Covid is it will take pressures off social security short falls for awhile ,, since 99% of those that do die are receiving social security payments. And these people were mostly Democrats and Biden supporters. Now Trump can win easier. This is why Democrats want to cheat.

[Angelo75]

I can work from home.
See my wife the whole day.
I get WAY more stuff finished (working from home).
No more time-wasting travelling.
When I finally get in the car, it is mostly to do something that I AM INTERESTED in, instead of dealing with traffic jam... just to get to work.
I can be way more pickier to who i give attention, since you tend to only get in contact and give attention to people you are really interested in you.
Also the other way around, when you get contact from others, you mainly get contacted from people who really care. And colleagues for work ofcourse.
But it easily filters the fake ones out.

[Darcia]

It has affected students and young adults with psychological disorders. All the work they put into coping and the skills built up to live has been strangled out and hung.


As I work with many different people their experiences are the same. They aren’t able to communicate they feel this isolation is a slap in the face.


It’s difficult to gain the sense what is lost and what you can do moving forward. These individuals just want a chance at life being independent and having a sense of their own.


But as many of my colleagues and departments have shared is that isolation is not good for someone who struggles with mental illness and the disabilities that come along for the ride.


Yeah sure there are positives but it is affected in different groups unproportionately.

[hornyafbi69]

Positive side like how if your under the age of fourty no pre existing conditions then you're chances of it being fatal are.0056% or if you live with your family and test positive your family is positive as well without a test, they don't ever say if the "cases" are actually cases not antibodies. Or that 97% of deaths were in nursing homes, the never say if it's a death from covid-19 or with it, I'm in Florida someone literally got hit on a motorcycle guess who died of covid-19? Durning the "worst" parts where everyone had it even a suicide could be thrown in as a covid-19 death

[Red_Arrow]

Public health awareness. Many people are aware and follow guidelines. Many do not, adhering I rallies and the like, picking up Corona virus then taking it away and spreading it to those who are honestly doing their best to stop the spread.
Environmental concerns? Trump has already rolled many far back and is looking to destroy other regulations.
Any other president would have fought to protect us and make things better during this pandemic. Trump uses it to increase his wealth at our expense.
Not so positive, is it?

[zeitgeist057]

Application of current technology. Things like ZOOM and Skype; the technology was there, but underutilized.

How many jobs can be done remotely, saving fossil fuels, commute time, and improving efficiency and the work-life balance (think of the thousands of commute hours that are now put to either personal or business use!)

[monkeynutts]

I think the slowing down may have a calculated change in the environment, water and air pollution being the most obvious. Personally I have enjoyed the extra time, and excuse to take off work. It would be better if I had someone maybe a lovely lady to spend some time with.

[ahmadali01]

As the coronavirus pandemic continues its deadly path, dramatic changes in how people live are reducing some instances of other medical problems. Bryn Nelson writes that the irony may hold valuable lessons for public health

[not329446]

I'm not saying it's bad but your idea of positive is little more than a dream. We live in a capitalistic society which covid will not change. Covid does little more than offer opportunity for the rich to exploit pain and suffering for profit.

[myTake Owner]

In that case, start a revolution! Overturn the capitalistic structure, and create a socialist oasis!

[not329446]

Neither is appealing that's like deciding Trump or Biden

[Alwayreckles93]

Well here in Canada I am working on a normal schedule as long as I am wearing my face mask and carry my own germX. I can make good fashion statements and combinations with so many face mask options.

[SavageGirl101]

I can sleep all day now without being bothered I love this quaritine 🙈

[havingfun101]

No UBI will be had, ya filthy commie!
Evidence from the negative income tax experiment strongly suggests that a comprehensive universal basic income program would significantly reduce work and increase dependency.

[Anonymous]

fuck where do I even start goddamnit you are so stupid. Do you want to learn? I actually want to help you

you can't raise the standard of living with universal basic income WHERE DO YOU THINK THE MONEY COMES FROM you are the kind of person that doesn't think things through very much yeah?

[Meatunnel69]

I have dry flaky skin unkempt nose hairs and a weak incel chin. My teeth are rotting out due to not going to the dentist so my breath smells just like my shit.

Wearing a mask solves all of these problems

[havingfun101]

Do you ever lift, bro?

[Meatunnel69]

@havingfun101 I do Kegels

[havingfun101]

Everyone does kegels. How about... you know, workouts? Lots of women are fat with bad genes and yuck mouth. Get right or get left my guy.

[havingfun101]

That counts as exercise, if you do it twice a day.

[Lynx122]

This year has been one of the best ever for me personally but thanks :)

[genericname85]

i guess the positive side is that before covid, i had to go to the doctor to get paid sick leave from health ensurance. now i get free health leave when even just someone at work calls in sick xD

[joeldalton]

The only positive is that the governments are starting to overplay their hands, and regular people are starting to see that their authoritarian rules are nonsense.

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Haha, good one.
www.dataforprogress.org/.../how-americans-feel-about-socialism

[joeldalton]

@Ad_Quid_Orator see what happens if Biden does get elected and tries another lockdown or national mask mandate. I know you’ll drop to a knee, but the rest of us don’t go that way.

Don’t you have some rodent masks to make?

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Nope, because of the way their nasal cavity is shaped they're more resilient as is.

[joeldalton]

@Ad_Quid_Orator bow down to your new hamster overlords.

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Choke on facts and quit spitting BS.

[joeldalton]

@Ad_Quid_Orator here’s some of your facts: Hamsters in a cage is somehow an equivalent to humans breathing, covid sends everyone to the hospital with pneumonia, there’s no such thing as asymptomatic cases, but we somehow have to lock down and wear masks to keep asymptomatic people from spreading a disease. Correlation implies causation, ignore countries with strict mask policies having higher outbreaks than those without.. because IMAGINE THE DEATHS!!! Bodies are literally pilling in the street. Workers will get Covid and ruin the economy despite you relying on millions of those workers to provide you with food, entertainment, utilities, sanitation, and online shopping not getting covid or shutting down their respective companies. You’re morally superior for wearing a face diaper but dont’ give half a shit about children starving because of the lockdowns. Fauci is infallible even though he flip-flops (well that’s science, but don’t question the science you believe in because that’s blasphemy).

You’ve turned this virus into a doomsday religious cult. PBUF (Peace be upon fauci)

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

1. No shit it's not equivalent; hamsters are less susceptible to respiratory infections so in all probability it would work better for humans.
2. Asymptomatic spread is now well documented (and clipping shit out of context doesn't change that).
3. I can rely on those workers because they didn't get sick due to the lockdown and have minimal public contact but if they're incapacitated no one can use their services (and the problem of starving children gets worse).
4. You say I worship a death cult when you would sacrifice millions of Americans to appease the invisible hand of the free market (at least Fauci is a real person). Quit projecting and accept your moral inferiority.

[joeldalton]

@Ad_Quid_Orator HAIL FAUCI. May he smite the heretics!

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Yep, because today the whole country learned what happens to those who don't follow his advice.

[joeldalton]

@Ad_Quid_Orator only through accepting Fauci as your lord and savior can you survive

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Well had we listened to his advice 100,000+ Americans would still be with us. But hey maybe know they're in heaven where the invisible hand of the free market gives them all the desires that capitalism robbed from society in life.

[joeldalton]

Lord fauci has passed down his commandments for you

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

fpif.org/.../

History repeats itself.

[joeldalton]

@Ad_Quid_Orator YES! We all now praise his holiness Fauci and the masked hamster hosts of angels

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator lol a poll from a far left group says far left policies are popular yea we soooooo trust that

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit Again your attacking the bias instead of the methodology or showing contradictory data (in other words, you copped out).

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator its not worth it, its not real

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit a source having a partisan bias isn't wrong by default.

#CopOut

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator it is when its that far left, not just biased but clearly asserting its own agenda. communists are automatically wrong unless proven otherwise

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit Except they're not communists so you're just showing how full of shit you are.

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator socialism is communism

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit Communism is a kind of socialism but that's like saying all mammals are dogs because dogs are mammals.

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator socialism is communism, they are synonyms. its just a propaganda technique used by communists to try and slowly assert control

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit No and conflating the two is just a fear mongering technique to expand corporate power in the US.

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit Communism doesn't allow private property while Socialism doesn't necessarily prohibit it.

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator those are literally the same fucking thing

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit No they're not and you obviously are clueless about political science.

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator political science is not a field one can study, just a waste of time

"the goal of all socialism is communism" vladimilr lenin

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit Yeah just pull definitions of your ass to suit your agenda instead LMAO.

And Lenin didn't invent either socialism or communism. See, you're completely clueless.

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator i quoted the father of the soviet union; obviously his opinions on communism are more valuable than yours

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit Because communists think that the end result of socialism is communism but this isn't a view shared by all branches of socialism. Way to fail at the appeal to authority fallacy.

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator there are no branches, anyone who disagrees is wrong, socialism is communism and can ONLY lead to communism. its the entire point

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit Socialism existed long before Marx so that's just a lie.

[007kingifrit]

@Ad_Quid_Orator such as?

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@007kingifrit Charles Fourier a socialist intellectual died 30 years before the communist manifesto was written.

[ObscuredBeyond]

You forgot one: critical awareness growing of the magnitude of centralist corruption.

[mrgspoter]

But you say all that and nothing is really changed or been done just knowing it don't mean a thing so nothing good had come from covid only knowing how little government or people actually give a shit.