Johnny Vodka
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I think it's important to know where this is going or might be going. I'd like to be optimistic but I don't really see any reason to be...
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The Sun God
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everything is hopeless
The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back
The latest U.S. data proves the world is in its steepest freefall ever—and the old economic and political playbooks don’t apply.
foreignpolicy.com
UK economy could shrink by 35% with 2m job losses, warns OBR
Unemployment could hit 10% by end of second quarter with public borrowing rising at fastest rate since WWII
Johnny Vodka
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everything is hopeless
The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back
The latest U.S. data proves the world is in its steepest freefall ever—and the old economic and political playbooks don’t apply.
UK economy could shrink by 35% with 2m job losses, warns OBR
Unemployment could hit 10% by end of second quarter with public borrowing rising at fastest rate since WWIIwww.theguardian.com
Maybe we just need to take time out and assess where we're going as a planet. Our consumption and draw on the Earth's resources would need to slow eventually..
Hally
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Come to work with me, that'll scare you. Today only - 3 colleagues on the ward as patient, 49 year old incubated, 50/50 to live. That's today
craig72
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Exactly this.. back to normal, normal wasn't working.. we'll have to try it another way..
The Sun God
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I've actually found all the pix of clear sea and clean air and wild animals roaming the streets of Valencia and Llandudno quite moving.. but humanity can't all go back to nature. There's just too many of us! So what gives?
Hally
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I wont post again. Pissed as per after a shift. Watch some 49 year old get intubated then covered in clingfilm to go to ICU. This will last until a vaccine in some form or other, NHS coping so need to relax restrictions and keep economy going, but as for normal life resuming? It isnt so get on with it and dont complain
sitting in my garden at the weekend and there was long periods of silence with no planes and no cars. Was very surreal but makes you realise how much there normally is
The Sun God
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A population cull is long overdue, starting with that turbo Lawler
craig72
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Buckley
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Really?
Also the intro to his latest Rinse FM show was odd. He said he had COVID19, but everyone needs to relax, it’s just flu and he got over it. Odd thing to say when 10,000 of your fellow countrymen have died. Yes might have been mild for him but clearly it is serious...
McRackin
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La letal penúltima pandemia en Ibiza
La última epidemia que azotó las Pitiusas, hace un siglo, dejó a su paso 261 muertos y 6.100 contagiados
Johnny Vodka
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Exactly. Anyone who doesn't have some fear (if not for themselves, for relatives or health workers), really isn't paying attention...
Johnny Vodka
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I think we can do better if some people are less greedy. We need less air and car travel, we need to less eat meat, we need to ditch fast fashion and silly over consumption fantasies... We need to find a different way of valuing people, where nurses are worth more than bankers and footballers. That's just for starters.
SeoulSaint
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While we’re at it, gig/club/football tickets capped at £30. Less/no VIP in clubs and a max price of €3 for a bottle of water. Actually scrap that, water should be free!
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