Besides unemployment, Netflix and Amazon, what other things will happen after a couple of months of self-isolating?
More Domestic violence?
Fewer traffic accidents?
Less pollution? (Already documented in China and Italy)
But I think the larger question (and more difficult to know) is how it will effect our long term thinking about public health, disaster preparedness, and the role of the Federal Government is coordinating a response to such an event in the future?
When this is all over, what will be the moral of the story?
Unitended consequences of COVID19
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Unitended consequences of COVID19
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"We've kept more promises than we've even made"
- Donald Trump
"Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist."
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Re: Unitended consequences of COVID19
[quote="MeDotOrg"]More Domestic violence?
Fewer traffic accidents?
Less pollution? (Already documented in China and Italy)[/quote]
The record of countries that are ahead of the US by a few weeks in the process of responding to the pandemic basically shows Yes, Yes. and Yes.
One effect you have not mentioned is a big hit to the illegal drugs business. Dealers can't get supplies because of the cessation of international travel, and their local distributors can't stand on a street corner on an otherwise empty street without getting noticed. Also, people driving around in cars tend to get stopped and asked why they are out.
Reported crime in general (apart from the first case listed above) also falls.
Fewer traffic accidents?
Less pollution? (Already documented in China and Italy)[/quote]
The record of countries that are ahead of the US by a few weeks in the process of responding to the pandemic basically shows Yes, Yes. and Yes.
One effect you have not mentioned is a big hit to the illegal drugs business. Dealers can't get supplies because of the cessation of international travel, and their local distributors can't stand on a street corner on an otherwise empty street without getting noticed. Also, people driving around in cars tend to get stopped and asked why they are out.
Reported crime in general (apart from the first case listed above) also falls.
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Re: Unitended consequences of COVID19
Sure, having to be home and take the mental and emotional abuse from a woman stressed out by kids is more scary to me than not having a paycheck. She may not be violent but there are many ways to abuse a spouse for women who want to make you suffer when she doesn't get her way. Going home is like clocking into a second job. You're at someone's beckon call and also there to offer emotional support by being bitched at or blamed for things you had no control over. Work offered an escape from that even if just for 8 or 9 hours.More Domestic violence?
In the past I would often just come home and take the kids and leave just to get away from her. I knew if I was there she would start nagging and bitching until I finally blew up. But now I can't take the kids anywhere. We're all stuck in quarantine together.
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Re: Unitended consequences of COVID19
There might be a mini-baby boom starting in 9 months.
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