Article on the Aberdeen visit here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/25/britain-beyond-lockdown-can-we-become-cleaner-coronavirus
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Fantasy Post-CV Society thread
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Just talking to my taxi driver mate who thinks his trade is goosed and is looking at other options. He also thinks half the country will be out of work by Christmas and I have to say I agree with him.
Some of the imaginative ideas being proposed need to become reality and quickly.
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Pre-Covid this would have been a spoof based on what would happen if car culture became even more the norm.
But, for the last three months, many car owners have been feeling sad that they haven't been able to sit stationary for hours a week in their own personal space.Now you can give you and your car a treat!
EDINBURGH!
●●● Get out the house and enjoy a huge night of socially distanced fun from the comfort of your car. Featuring:● Movies
● Comedy
● Silent Disco
● Live Band Car-A-Oke
● Bingo
● Interactive Trivia
● Food Trucks & more.Family friendly daytime sessions also available! In town for a limited time only at Dalkeith Country Park from August 12-16. Don't miss out, book today and secure yourself a front row view.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@LaidBack
Lots of people hate both their families and colleagues. The commute is when they are happiest. I am not joking.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@iwrats Agree. 3% of them are on bikes too :-)
CV-19 'Car-a-Oke' is now a thing!
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Given how much I enjoy film, I should be loving the return of drive-in movies (or cinecar?), but there's really no appeal.
After spotting guided tours around town this week for the first time since March, I'm wondering how long it can be before the return of silent disco in facemasks.
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@LaidBack, of the 100 those 3 are the truly happy ones.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@acsimpson
I overheard a couple of Muslim guys in the street near the mosque one Friday. One shouts from his car to the other on foot: 'How are you today?'
And the pedestrian replied 'I am blessed, brother.'.
Just a thought.
Posted 3 years ago # -
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An international coalition of mayors has called for the development of ’15-minute cities’ as part of a post-COVID sustainability plan.
The group claims residents should be able to meet all work and recreational needs within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from home.
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https://www.micromobilitybiz.com/mayors-outline-15-minute-cities-for-post-covid-sustainability/amp/
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we invented time to stop everything happening at once
without new experiences time has lost all meaning
LES YEUX SANS VISAGE
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Looks like Gary Numan
Posted 3 years ago # -
There's going to be a post CV?
Posted 3 years ago # -
There's going to be a post CV?
"the pandemic of mental anguish that afflicts our time cannot be properly understood, or healed, if viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals"
- reynolds/fisher, 2017
Posted 3 years ago # -
the pandemic of mental anguish
I am overwhelmed just thinking about thinking about it.
Posted 3 years ago # -
It’s getting kind of late now
I wonder if you’ll stay now
Stay now stay now stay now
Or will we just politely say goodnightPosted 3 years ago # -
This thread has been quiet for a while.
Few signs of much other than attempts to return to business as usual.
Some advances on political manoeuvring over Climate Crisis - though that may be more to do with post Trump than post CV.
Lots of lip service to Active Travel, but it’s still mostly electric cars and more roads.
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Solar and wind could easily meet all of humanity’s energy needs, but can we switch over before climate disaster strikes?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v7pj
Which is a relevant question.
Enough electricity any time soon for cars and ‘green’ hydrogen (particular for home heating)?
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During the past year, the beguiling urban designer Thomas Heatherwick has, along with just about everyone else, spent many hours walking alone in empty streets, wondering what happens next. One of the thoughts that has bounced around in his head on those walks has been this: “Many people are realising that they may hardly have to go anywhere ever again.” A consequence of that realisation – the conclusion of the enforced mass experiment of working and socialising and shopping from your kitchen table – will, he believes, cause “a lot of hard-nosed businessmen” to confront a question that has been fundamental to his own thinking ever since he set up in practice 27 years ago. “What might make people want to come to this place?”
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He finds himself looking more and more at how the Victorians and the Georgians built, in order to replicate not the style, but the understanding of density. “I can understand the thrill of wanting to ‘reinvent the idea of the street’ after the war,” he says. “But we have to acknowledge that failed.” Some cities, Madrid for example, have been using the lockdown to address that fact, he believes, reclaiming public spaces with pedestrianisation. In London and the UK he doesn’t yet sense that “wholeheartedness” in response to the pandemic. Not enough people, he says, “are really thinking of how to cherish the city as a new kind of space, as a room, as a meaningful gathering place – but that is going to be needed to bring people back.”
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“Trickle-down economics has never worked. It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out,”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/28/bidens-speech-to-congress-five-key-takeaways
Posted 2 years ago # -
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In urban areas, thousands of jobs could be generated by investing in parks and green spaces for health and leisure. A growing body of research suggests that access to green areas has multiple benefits for people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. Improving such areas in neighbourhoods currently without green space could create 10,800 jobs in areas with the worst post-pandemic jobs prospects, the report says.
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@chdot: In London and the UK he doesn’t yet sense that “wholeheartedness” in response to the pandemic.
I think he's being kind there. Most of the UK just seems to want life to go back to the way it was before Covid. A not insignificant proportion of the UK would seem to want life to go back to the way it was before the 1960s (or even earlier) when, apart from anything else*, there was much less traffic on the roads - and by that thinking: if the existing roads are now full, build more roads...
* Such as: women knew their place; the working classes were largely content to labour for barely adequate wages often in conditions which involved significant risk to life and limb; and there was local bobby on every street who would give any miscreants a clip round the ear and send them home.
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“Such as ... “
Indeed
“largely content to labour for barely adequate wages”
Difficult to assess the extent of “content” then or now, but arguably there is already a high level of “barely adequate wages” with (additionally) much less job security especially with the current vogue for no/variable hours ‘contracts’ - plus the inability/unwillingness of a Gov to cope with operating a ‘safety net’ to deal with unpredictable incomes.
In the fabled 50s & 60s leaving school (at 15) on a Friday and starting work on a Monday was a possibility for many, with a range of job options - at least in the cities.
IF all the furloughed people get back to work and the pub/shops reopen then maybe everyone will be content.
BUT
Posted 2 years ago # -
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What kind of country has this become? We will know more when Thursday’s election results roll in by the weekend. Polls are narrowing but the Tories average 42% against Labour’s 35%. That’s extraordinary, when a party 11 years in power should expect heavy losses in midterm votes.
But these are exceptional times: after 14 months of draconian restrictions the UK emerges blinking into the light, vaccinated and liberated, bouncing with anticipated bingeing and boozing. Many households who’ve saved money through lockdown are awash with surplus cash and homeowners revel in Rishi Sunak’s deliberately created house-price boom. Even those who lost relatives and livelihoods celebrate freedom: if not, then success on Thursday tells the government it can safely ignore them as a discontented minority.
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