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Silvercat

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Figured it all out.....no chance....I'm 47 years old and still very much learning every day! I do seem to be further down the line than some though evidently so I'll take that as a positive.

I am thinking your way as well that we are 2-3 years off getting anywhere close to normality. That is presuming this really doesn't hit much harder and deeper than we are thinking. If it does......goodness only knows!

I think it would be a really good and positive step if we can all learn many lessons from all of this. I still disagree with many that there needs to be growth. There doesn't. We need to live within our means. As people, as countries and as a planet.

I hope many businesses will be responsible and brave to not re-instate 100% of what we had a month or so ago. There is so much wrong with it lets start again. We have an opportunity here that I feel will be lost on most. We don't need people to have 4,5 6 or more holidays a year. We don't need so much travel. We have shrunk the globe and embraced this globalisation to a point that it has gone too far. Lets step back a little and re-localise.

I can't see how the international travel floodgates could or should be opened. However if we go through the next 3-12 months and the whole population could have passed the virus then the risk of catching it again or infecting others is small to none. Unless it mutates I guess.

I think we should become much more self sufficient. With Brexit now initiated maybe this current CV crisis could be utilised as a catalyst to break up the whole of Europe's single market. A great concept but flawed in reality. Maybe think again and create something similar but different.

We need to tackle so many issues that I personally don't feel is healthy. Debt levels as a country and personal levels need to be reduced. There are some core fundamentals that really need to change....and we will see a benefit from this. We need to stop rewarding failure. It is everywhere. Football managers that get sacked for doing a poor job often but still paid out for the rest of their contract. If we stopped all these flawed processes then we will start rewarding the people that deserve it. All the way up and down the food chain.

No company on earth needs to be and should be big enough and powerful enough to be worth $1tn. It is excess. There is so much inefficiency so much waste. We just don't seem to be bold enough or brave enough to take some tough decisions. We all know EV is a cra4p half arsed attempt at a plaster at best that won't resolve many issues. Lets ditch it and take one big brave step further. The future isn't EV as that is here today.....the future is the future so we need to be thinking better and bigger.

I'm a little bored with things being OK and just good enough. Sometimes not even that. We need some bold brave people out there to make some big bold changes. Some real creative thinkers.
You are so spot on!!! A great summary of some of the things which need to be considered. The really big one for me is how we can use this as an opportunity to 're-set' how we interact and manage our environment so it is no longer based upon so much destruction. We have one planet, so let's start looking after it!
 
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These sorts of tweets must be so helpful. Presumably Boris and Matt are just sitting about doing jigsaw puzzles, and occasionally glancing at Twitter, and then they see this and think, "Wow, Piers is so right, we really should do something about this." Thank you Piers, what would we do without you?

I'm slightly embarrassed by the 'likes' for this. Being incredibly sarcastic is probably not my most admirable character trait TBH.
 

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Another good news story. Not surprised to be honest. But I do like the part about once the restaurant can reopen.

 

Wattie

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Another good news story. Not surprised to be honest. But I do like the part about once the restaurant can reopen.

Well done Ed, a mere multi-millionaire who , unlike Richard and various other billionaires, doesnt want a bailout.
 
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It’s back to the Stone Age the animals are taking over.

Coronavirus: Goats take over empty streets of seaside town https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52103967

They seem quite well-behaved. Other than eating the hedges and flowers, that is. I imagine many rural towns might prefer this sort of immigrant than the sort so widely reported to have deserted London in droves, bringing their foul pestilence with them.
 
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They seem quite well-behaved. Other than eating the hedges and flowers, that is. I imagine many rural towns might prefer this sort of immigrant than the sort so widely reported to have deserted London in doves, bringing their foul pestilence with them.
Google - rats in New York or New Orleans.
Since humans departed, a new host has become prevalent.
 

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