Potential Positives to Look forward to
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@Nepia said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@MajorRage said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Just turned off my weekdays 5:30am alarm.
That’s a massive positive!!
Fuck that, that's way too early, my alarm doesn't go off until 7:30am and now I'm working from home I'm good to not get up until about 8:30am.
And work in your jammies
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Mental health issues may spike, especially for extroverts who have to self-isolate, so that will be something to watch out for.
Credit to RBNZ for immediately acting with the OCR drop, and giving certainty by stating it would be at least 12 months, and also that they would use quantitative easing if necessary (aka printing money).
Top work from Robertson, that finance package is a really strong answer to the immediate issues, and he has described it as phase 1 (so the Budget in May will have more). $12 billion so far for the first 12 weeks, and NZ can muster another $120 billion if we must (our net Crown debt was a bit under $60 Billion/21% of GDP before this, so if 100% of GDP is seen as our preferred cap, we've got another $150 Billion or so).
On that note, huge credit to Sir Bill English and Sir Michael Cullen before him for ensuring the government accounts were in good shape even despite the GFC and earthquake. Robertson gets some credit for the past two years, but he's got the leeway to pull out all the stops and keep the NZ economy going because the past 20 years has seen world-class economic management by Labour and National.
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@MajorRage said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@Tim said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Fights, trolling, and jokes on the internet will probably be at an all time high.
No they won't.
Yes they will.
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@chimoaus said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@MajorRage said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@Tim said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Fights, trolling, and jokes on the internet will probably be at an all time high.
No they won't.
Yes they will.
Bullshit. What would you know?
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@MajorRage said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@chimoaus said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@MajorRage said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@Tim said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Fights, trolling, and jokes on the internet will probably be at an all time high.
No they won't.
Yes they will.
Bullshit. What would you know?
He's probably never even been a website administrator before.
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@Tim said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Fights, trolling, and jokes on the internet will probably be at an all time high.
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@canefan said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
I don't know what the odds are for a diabetic. I'd imagine if she is otherwise fit and healthy and not elderly she is pretty safe. Weak tickers and bad lungs along with general poor health are worse
The CDC study of the first 44,000 in China put the mortality rate for diabetes at 7.4%. It’s right there with heart & lung disease. They don’t break down the difference(s) between Type 1 and Type 2, but it is a chronic auto-immune disease, Type 1 especially.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@canefan said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
I don't know what the odds are for a diabetic. I'd imagine if she is otherwise fit and healthy and not elderly she is pretty safe. Weak tickers and bad lungs along with general poor health are worse
The CDC study of the first 44,000 in China put the mortality rate for diabetes at 7.4%. It’s right there with heart & lung disease. They don’t break down the difference(s) between Type 1 and Type 2, but it is a chronic auto-immune disease, Type 1 especially.
It would be interesting to see the breakdown. Non-insulin dependent diabetics often tend to be generally in poor health due to the lifestyle issues that helped to get them there. I know both reduce the chance of fighting infections but in my minimal experience Insulin dependent patients are generally the more healthy of the two
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@Hooroo said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@JK said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
I'd love to get the provincial rugby thing humming again. If no super rugby then get the all blacks back in to club rugby and then out for the provinces. Could be an exciting competition even if we have to watch it from the couch.
Oh dammit! You've just reminded me of one I left out of the first post.
This could kill off super rugby a bit and inject a whole lot of life into the NPC. Imagine full or near full NPC games because people have missed rugby so much! Even I could get back into that. Auckland v Canterbury at Eden park with 50,000 people as there were no AB tests etc! That would be wicked!!
Drive it Waikato!!!
It would be like Apartheid era Currie Cup. No tests, provincial rugby is everything.
I'm for that, not the Apartheid bit, though.
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Without wanting to get too political, I hope that this results in the world (the West especially) re-considering their dependence on Chinese manufacturing, logistics, money etc. and, instead, moving at least some of that back onshore (or at least to a number of other countries to spread the risk).
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@junior said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Without wanting to get too political, I hope that this results in the world (the West especially) re-considering their dependence on Chinese manufacturing, logistics, money etc. and, instead, moving at least some of that back onshore (or at least to a number of other countries to spread the risk).
Yeah, that's a fair question. I wonder what changes, if any, will come about for Brexit on the back of this. I think they will be substantial.
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@junior said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Without wanting to get too political, I hope that this results in the world (the West especially) re-considering their dependence on Chinese manufacturing, logistics, money etc. and, instead, moving at least some of that back onshore (or at least to a number of other countries to spread the risk).
The Western capitalist model calls for reducing costs by outsourcing to the cheapest place to maximize profits. Covid19 is exposing a fatal flaw in that strategy
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@canefan said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@junior said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Without wanting to get too political, I hope that this results in the world (the West especially) re-considering their dependence on Chinese manufacturing, logistics, money etc. and, instead, moving at least some of that back onshore (or at least to a number of other countries to spread the risk).
The Western capitalist model calls for reducing costs by outsourcing to the cheapest place to maximize profits. Covid19 is exposing a fatal flaw in that strategy
And that's precisely my point. I don't doubt that, over the long term and as people's memories of COVID 19 fade, this POV will win out and that China will remain a significant offshoring location for Western companies. However, my hope is that in the short- to medium-term, a lot of companies start moving part of their Chinese operations back home and / or to other low-cost countries who present far less of a health, strategic and economic risk than China.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback Hopefully a small proportion of the military budget will go to developing new antibiotics ans vaccines.