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Can they? How does that work? Where are the funds located?
The World After Coronavirus
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P.J. Denyer
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You could have a card with the funds loaded on it written directly onto the magnetic strip like some giftcards and phonecards used to have. But to be honest that then has almost all the disadvantages of cash and cashless and no advantages except reducing cash handling (which admittedly is a big advantage for businesses but a lot less for individuals).
rjh01
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From reading another thread I suggest that the fast food industry will be hit hard. People are home cooking, losing weight. Once people go back to work many people will be eating home prepared meals. They will be a lot healthier.
The Atheist
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Yeah, I said that a week or so back, and bloody good thing if it happened.
I have my doubts, though.
The problem with anything that "gets better" during a crisis is the psychological/emotional need to undue it as way of getting back to normal.
Sure a bunch of people are stuck at home eating... marginally healthier (I wouldn't bet the farm on a lot of people really eating all that much healthier) meals. But the celebratory "Let's go out to eat again, we haven't in so long" meals will be in almost everyone's post COVID lives and well at that point you've "fallen off the wagon."
rjh01
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The things the previous posters have overlooked is that the fast food adicts, will feel bad for a few days without their 'fix' (yes they are drug addicts and the drug is sugar) then start to feel much better. Better than what they have had for a long time. They will start to lose weight and will not want to go back to their old habits.
Of course you could be right. They go back to work and because they are tired they will need to buy fast food, so go back to their old ways. Or maybe they tell their boss "Stuff you I am not working so many hours per week."
Of course you could be right. They go back to work and because they are tired they will need to buy fast food, so go back to their old ways. Or maybe they tell their boss "Stuff you I am not working so many hours per week."
William Parcher
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People are home freaked out of their mind eating a whole bag of potato chips all at once. Then moving on to a whole pint of ice cream.
Right now there is more food in their house than ever before and they are experiencing altered reality.
angrysoba
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Yeah. I think a lot of people will be in the position of having no gym, no running or cycling, no swimming or climbing or martial arts for months, no strolls around the park etc... A lot more ready meals and may have fewer fresh vegetable options, not even walking to the train or up any flights of stairs at work, little motivation to do anything other than veg out and watch Netflix, stay in bed all morning etc...
alfaniner
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Oddly enough, I find myself eating enough just for a snack now.
And I seem to be graduating actually eating three meals a day, when I'm hungry, as opposed to mindless grazing or picking up fast food on the way home.
rjh01
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Please remember that it takes a lot of exercise to lose any significant weight. Most of the energy used is used just to keep alive. Yes what we are saying are generalizations and some it depends on where you live. For example where I am people are allowed to go outside to exercise. Others have said this is not allowed in their country.
The Atheist
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It will be fascinating to watch the aftermath, but one thing in your favour is that the longer it all goes on, the more chance of permanent change, and it's going to go on for a looooong time.
alfaniner
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I wonder how TV, movie, and other entertainment media are going to handle it? Just pretend like it never happened and continue with dramas and the like as before. Of course, there will be changes in the production of such media before it even gets out there.
AnonyMoose
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Which leads to the questions:
Will most of the new movies scheduled to hit the theaters this year get pushed back to next year?
Will we be forced to watch streaming reruns of "Snakes on a Plane" and "Sharknado 9"?
Elagabalus
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I would like to think that most us come out of this knowing how to make a decent loaf of white bread and not some tasteless, hastily made abomination. Seriously people, use a pre-ferment. 300g of bread flour , 300g of water with a dash (quarter teaspoon) of yeast. Let it sit overnight in a cool dry place.
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rjh01
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I wonder how soon before a soap or movie have the lockdown as a central theme.
Just try getting the ingredients round here. There's been no flour in the shops for at least two weeks (we were in Bulgaria the week before). I expect it's being directed to commercial uses instead.
The Atheist
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Whichever one has the shortest time between filming and airing.
P.J. Denyer
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We'll still have The Quiz Broadcast. So sit back, relax, Stay Inside and enjoy, while not thinking about The Event.
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There are going to be tons of books/movies about heists, murders and false identities using the Outbreak as cover.
There will also be more movies in which bioweapons are used for terrorism and war.
I am intrigued by the idea that the self-isolation and its impact on the economy might not be seen as a feasibility study of a General Strike: when people realize that they can prepare for 2-4 weeks at home, and stay in contact online, people might coordinate to stay away from work until the government institutes something there is massive popular, but little congressional approval, such as healthcare for all.
There will also be more movies in which bioweapons are used for terrorism and war.
I am intrigued by the idea that the self-isolation and its impact on the economy might not be seen as a feasibility study of a General Strike: when people realize that they can prepare for 2-4 weeks at home, and stay in contact online, people might coordinate to stay away from work until the government institutes something there is massive popular, but little congressional approval, such as healthcare for all.
Hlafordlaes
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History indicates that all will recede in importance as other matters come to the fore. After all, most memory and all of caution were forgotten in the century since the last major epidemic. In the face of today's myriad challenges, how well is everyone applying, say, the terrifically hard lessons of WWII or the Holocaust, even in Israel? Embracing fascism, much? I rest my case.
Humanity is forever only one small step out of the cave. All it ever takes is for one generation to fail to take that step, to be too weak to look past shiny bling and beckoning self-interest, as is the case of the, ahem, much-vaunted "greatest" USA.
This event marks the definitive rise of Asia and decline of the West. The US has lost its place, role, moral and political authority, and much of its former unmatched ability to influence the world. Voluntarily, btw, through sheer pigheadedness, pride, and stupidity. Not that the Chinese will learn or heed this lesson, as they in turn enjoy the unrestrained ability to undermine all but their own power and interest alone, like the ignorant bullies that came before them. The difference is that their fall may not come for centuries, even millennia. There will be no high-minded efforts (or low-minded treason) to come to the aid of those who would violently oppose them and all they stand for, or to allow their sworn enemies to share in the fruits of whatever is left of modernity enough to become any sort of threat to them. That bitter lesson is one all shall have taken to heart.
- Short term prediction: The dollar will fall as reserve currency, and for the first time in generations, Americans will have to earn an honest living and deal from the position of relative weakness that the bleak failure of the nation to invest in fact-based education has left it in, apart from massive debt that is now near impossible to service, aging and broken infrastructure, the consequences of poisoning large swathes of otherwise arable land, and the continued stupifying presence of the descendants of the mindless religionists that Europe had to rid itself of as impossibly brain dead.
- Midterm prediction: On the whole, the US will ironically be a far better place because of it...
- Final prediction: ...until overrun and crushed.
Oh, and I certainly do not envy what's in store for Japan.
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