The bright side of Coronavirus

[tubeswell]

Game rule:

Start your post with the phrase 'On the bright side' and then say anything you want about Coronavirus; e.g.


On the bright side, Jehovah's Witnesses are finally working from home

[Heid the Ba]

On the bright side, my commute is two minutes not an hour or more.

[Lianachan]

On the bright side, by the time this is all done there’ll be fewer Tories and Brexiteers.

[Arneb]

On the bright side, busybody insurance people and whiny hypchondriacs seem to have fled the scene.

[Lance]

On the bright side, Donald Trump is in a high risk category.

[Richard A]

On the bright side, my wife, daughter and I are spending a decent amount of time together as a family.

[MM_Dandy]

On the bright side, we're reducing emissions.

[Lianachan]

On the bright side, working from home let’s me do practically all of my job while also playing Fooball Manager.

[g-one]

On the bright side, they stopped playing the local radio station at my grocery store! WOO FUCKING HOO!
I fondly refer to the local station as "the #1 cause of suicide in the region".
They've replaced it with some corporate feed which has Covid messaging every 5 min. or so, and typical instrumental muzak that is much easier to tune out/ignore.
I hope they stick with it for good.

[Lance]

On the bright side, some of the people at GLP are having a very good time with this.

[Arneb]

@ g-one - being able to tune out annoying music is an ability I envy you for.
@ Lance -I must not give into the temptation to go there. I MUST not. I. MUST. NOT.

On the bright side, we got all our money back for ten days worth of rent of the little lakeside house we aren't allowed to visit over Easter and where we would have infected exactly zero people with anything because the forests and lakes make for sufficient distance and aereation.

[Мастер]

My personal expenditure is way down.

I can't travel anywhere, and all the entertainment venues are closed.

[Heid the Ba]

Indeed, commuting is much cheaper when you just have to get to the sofa, and not buying curry at lunchtime saves money too.

[Arneb]

On the bright side, we do live in interesting times.

[Мастер]

The airline extended my platinum status for a whole extra year, until January of 2022.

I now have almost two years to earn 540 "QPoints", and extend platinum until 2023.

[Heid the Ba]

On the bright side, a dentist I have never spoken to has just written me a prescription for antibiotics for an infection on the basis that the Mem 'phoned him. She 'phoned her dentist's office expecting to get an out of hours message and got the main man. I was falling between two stools living in Edinburgh and going to a dentist in Dunfermline, both health trusts were trying to punt me onto the other one. A bored dentist and Covid-19 means I can stroll to the local pharmacy in an hour or so.

[Lance]

On the bright side, turning onto a main road from a side street at rush hour is much easier these days.

[Heid the Ba]

On the bright side, although I’m not walking as much I’m eating less and exercising more. My abs are slowly re-appearing.

[Lance]

On the bright side, once a vaccine is developed, the anti-vaxxers will finally self-eliminate from the gene pool.

[Richard A]

Oh I really love that last one!

[Мастер]

On the bright side, once a vaccine is developed, the anti-vaxxers will finally self-eliminate from the gene pool.

Will they? They haven't already, in the face of other diseases.

The herd immunity threshold I keep hearing about is not 100%.

So I need to think up a bright side, since I'm posting in this thread. Let's see what I can come up with.

The Boston Marathon runners will have an extra five months to train!

[Lance]

On the bright side, once a vaccine is developed, the anti-vaxxers will finally self-eliminate from the gene pool.

Will they? They haven't already, in the face of other diseases.

But isn't this the first thing that really wants to kill them since anti-vaxxers have existed in large numbers?

[Мастер]

But isn't this the first thing that really wants to kill them since anti-vaxxers have existed in large numbers?

Maybe, but this virus kills what, maybe a few percent of its victims?

So there might be slightly fewer anti-vaxxers than before. Although maybe they'll be "cured" of anti-vaxxism if they survive the disease themselves.

The other thing to keep in mind is, if there are people who are vaccinated and anti-vaxxers, the anti-vaxxers are free-riding on the vaxxed. If you get vaccinated, you are protecting not only yourself from getting the disease, but also protecting other people from getting the disease from you. So if enough people get vaccinated, the disease dies out, and the anti-vaxxers survive.

So I feel like it's really only an issue for them if there are enough of them. If they're a fringe minority, then the disease will be pretty much dead anyway. And of even the small number of them that do catch it, a large majority will survive.

More bright side (you didn't include any in your post):

No Eurovision this year!

[Lance]

Oh, okay.

On the bright side, there may be slightly fewer anti vaxxers...

[Arneb]

Yeah, I'd go with that. Herd immunity is an anti-vaxxer's ultimate free ride, being protected by what he riles against.

On the bright side, Covid-19 hits the antivaxxers themselves, not their innocent children.