Potential POSITIVE effects of corona virus

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Originally Posted by Crypto Crude

With the lockdown we are looking at a softer landing on our Healthcare resources...

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Lockdowns are a short term stopgap solution unfortunately and, as Italy is showing, may not even be effective. South Korea model is the only way forwards that isn't economically crippling. We'll just have to scale our testing capability before the tidal wave hits us.

I will say the road toll and criminal acts will come down in the next few weeks.:t_up:

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Originally Posted by see weed

I will say the road toll and criminal acts will come down in the next few weeks.:t_up:

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Road toll - yes.

Criminal acts - not sure.

• some new criminal acts around people can offend against (like breaking the lock down conditions) - and they do.
• plenty more unemployed people with lots of time on their hands ...
• a paradise for hackers ... lots of people accessing interesting data (company networks) from hardly secured (home) networks ...
• family violence started already to soar ... victims of abusers are now 24/7 locked up with them.

I give you, though that the character of criminal offences is likely to change. We will see, whether it is an improvement.

As the $NZ is dropping we should be looking to export more products and hopefully attract overseas companies to set up here,creating new jobs is going to be vital

I wonder if someone could calculate the number of lives that will be saved due to air pollution decreasing.

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Originally Posted by klid

I wonder if someone could calculate the number of lives that will be saved due to air pollution decreasing.

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I doubt it. However there will be a few wild guesses.

Did you see this guys?
NASA images: China's air pollution decreased amid ...www.cnbc.com › 2020/03/02 › nasa-images-chinas-air-pollution-decr...

New ways do do things faster,more accurately,cheaper
Spinnaker
Volpara
Ubiquitome

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/bet...he-coronavirus

Flexible transport apps for essential services
https://ridewithvia.com/news/

Accelerated increase in capability of virology and health management. In a similar way that HIV research now is directly contributing to viable cancer treatments we can probably expect that global focused research and prioritisation of a vaccine for this illness will have spin-off benefits in the application of viral genetics for cure and treatment of a range of other existing illnesses.

Some cause for optimism the world may look a different place by July or August this year.
There's an exciting race on to find a stop gap immunological treatment for CV19 which may be available by June/July rather than having to wait for a vaccine.

Basically taking blood from people who easily recovered from CV19 & separating out the specific antibodies which gave them such a strong immunity, that they only suffered v mild symptoms.
Then making billions of synthetic copies of the protein to give to others to provide around 3 months immunity.
The architecture to do this already in place (blood banks, testing, capability etc) & much quicker & more straightforward than developing & testing a safe medication or vaccine.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...he-coronavirus

WOF anyone?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/120...ential-workers

IMHO, The most positive effect to come out of the covid-19 situation is that with Winstone in hibernation/lock down we do not have to listen to him droning on and on and on every time that an interviewer tries to extract facts out of him .

Great innovation story, effective PPE face shields being mass produced & supplied by South Auckland man & other 3D hobbyists across NZ.

1Kg of 3D filament can produce hundreds of face shield brackets at a cost of 20c each.
Just add an A4 sheet of clear plastic film from somewhere like Warehouse stationary & you have an effective face shield.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/120...-20-cents-each

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/120...mulus-spending

WOW!


have lived in Christchurch a long time and have never really heard talk of mass rapid transport. Very exciting if it comes to fruition.

looks like coronavirus is the best thing that could possibly happen for the environment