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Re: long range effects of covid19

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Anchor Moy wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:40 am Very long term, if the virus is as severe as predicted, the travel industry may die out altogether. Countries will keep their borders closed, so tourism as we know it will die out. People will become accustomed to staying at home to protect themselves from this virus and others to come,and will live much of their lives through computers systems and virtual reality. You want to go to Angkor Wat ? You buy some softwear that gives you surround sound and holograms, so you can enjoy Ankor Wat safely without coming into contact with people.

The old days of meeting your friends in the pub for a few pints will be replaced by conference call with video, where you fix a drink at home and set up the skype to catch up with your mates. Everyone will work from home and shopping will all be online, delivered to your doorstep by robots.

We are already accustomed to living a lot of life through the internet now, so it is not too far fetched to imagine everyone staying at home eventually, and living their lives entirely through modern technology.

As a result, humans will become distrustful of each other and wary of human contact. Family units will become smaller and smaller, until we are each living in an individual pod and all contact with others will be virtual. Sex will be conducted by self-insemination with some of that surround-sound again.

:dm: Anyway, with any luck, I'll be dead long before then, because it really doesn't sound like much of a fun future. :beer3:

I think some of that has already happened,

As for family units getting smaller ? They cannot get smaller, People are already now not getting married, having kids , and are already living solo. One persons income cannot support themselves anymore, so the future is a polyamory situation where three or more live as a husbands/wife's and this is already happening if you look at how ''flatmates'' are living these days.

Today, it all works in theory but not in practice because we were bought up in a past world and our thinking is still in the past.

Who would have thought 20 years ago that same sex marriages would ever exist, so who ,, thinking 20 years ahead thinks that a family unit will not be several males and several females and many kids.
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Duncan wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:55 pm One persons income cannot support themselves anymore, so the future is a polyamory situation where three or more live as a husbands/wife's
I like what you are saying here. I always thought if i ever get married there should be two wives to fight off boredom. Now how do you find two ladies not jealous of each other? Perhaps they should be sisters to minimize rivalry between them. Twin sisters even better as twins should be even more close to each other.
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hunter8 wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:00 pm
Duncan wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:55 pm One persons income cannot support themselves anymore, so the future is a polyamory situation where three or more live as a husbands/wife's
I like what you are saying here. I always thought if i ever get married there should be two wives to fight off boredom. Now how do you find two ladies not jealous of each other? Perhaps they should be sisters to minimize rivalry between them. Twin sisters even better as twins should be even more close to each other.
Just remember there is nothing new about this type of arrangement, Look at how Kings , Rulers . and ancient tribes lived and in some religious sects they still have second or third wives . Even in Cambodia , many a lady will have two men in her life , but usually classed as a husband and a boyfriend...... And usually the reason is, one or two incomes is not enough to support a family, you need three incomes.
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Duncan wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:15 pm many a lady will have two men in her life , but usually classed as a husband and a boyfriend......
This would be new to me, i don’t think i am ready to pioneer that far just yet 😁
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cptrelentless wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:52 pm Mortality rates for under sixties with covid are <0.5%, so no fuckers are dying apart from the old coffin dodgers who make no contribution to society, anyhow. So nothing is going to happen. Blip will be over in a few weeks and forgotten in six months. Like everything else.
Well the so called coffin dodgers do contribute to society, not only in Italy where many of us have been cared for by our grandparents while our parents went out for work. They cook for us, bring us to kindergarden and school, teach us values and are the ones who fill our hearts with unconditioned love. Many of us would not be able to afford to own a house or get higher education if it wasn´t partly or wholly financed by our elderly generation. What about the many hours they spend volunteering for good causes? You also miss the value of good advice from people who have a lot of experience. It was the coffin dodgers who rebuilt my country after WWII with efforts that we cannot immagine. They have made enough contribution to society and deserve the most respect.
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cptrelentless wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:52 pm Mortality rates for under sixties with covid are <0.5%, so no fuckers are dying apart from the old coffin dodgers who make no contribution to society, anyhow. So nothing is going to happen. Blip will be over in a few weeks and forgotten in six months. Like everything else.
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Phnom Poon wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:08 pm
WildA wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:28 am China is finished. Supply chains are moving as we speak,
nothing much will change under the current financial system
corporates will diversify a little, and add disaster-recovery backups
but unless incentives move away from 'shareholder value'
nothing is coming back
Sorry dude its happening. Keen is making shoes in the US. More and more footwear is moving to Eastern Europe. Hard drives to Thailand. Machine tools to mexico. And so on.
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Ironic title,we are all now restricted to short range...........
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Confined people tend to talk more, and more will be claimed when this is over.

Now France enters confinement.
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