Are there any statistics showing any positive effects as a result of all of the quarantining and social distancing?
- Reduction in car accidents/fatalities
- Reduction in spread of other communicable diseases (e.g., flu)
What else?
Temporary, of course, but positive.
Air quality where I am (Delhi) has open dramatically improved… it’s an eye opener for everyone here
I’m looking forward to see what happens with car insurance rates.
How do you think they will be affected?
I’m wondering if some employers will see that remote work is feasible and has financial advantages and will continue to allow it at least a few days a week. This could lead to reduced pollution, etc.
Not at all, unless the reduction in traffic accidents becomes a long-term thing that allows insurance companies to adjust their actuarial models. If that were to happen, then an insurance company could conceivably gain a competitive advantage by lowering their premiums.
But the drop in accidents will go away when business-as-usual resumes, so I wouldn’t expect any change.
People are cooking at home and eating together as families. Also working together as families, particularly home schooling work helping their kids. Home projects getting done.
I have no idea if true, but I would assume a huge reduction in STD cases. Hard to catch one of those at 6 feet.
In Minnesota, drunk driving arrests are down more than 60% from last year at the same time. Of course, liquor store purchases are significantly higher.
Was having a similar discussion with a colleague. This may in fact lead to a substantial change in perceptions about telework and school and result in a “tipping point” societal embrace of both.
Same here in Italy, especially the canals of Venice.
With perhaps a corresponding increase in pregnancies among couples who live together? “Corona” may be the apropos baby name for 2021!
However, I nominate “Quint” for baby name 2021. It’s a Latin nickname for “the fifth” and was the common given name of a Roman family’s fifth male child. It’s Italian derivative for “fifty” (“cinquanta”) comes after “quaranta” or “forty” which is the origin of “quarantine” (ships were required to wait forty days before docking in Venice during the plague).
Hence, those little angels that we get after quarantine = Quint (or Quinta).
We are catching up on our sleep. I haven’t been this well rested in my adult life. My attention span is improving.
You don’t need statistics to see that the traffic situation has markedly improved everywhere a lockdown is in effect. The streets are quieter (which makes sleeping with the window open more pleasant) and my daily bicycle commute to the office is now a breeze—no more sudden stops and starts and no more breathing in all those noxious car exhaust fumes. Sometimes I have an entire inner-city road to myself for several kilometres at a stretch.
The ‘Social Distancing’ is working out pretty good, since nobody is able to wipe their ass anymore.
And yet there are those who cannot resist a challenge…
One word for you: bidet. Amazon has bidet seats. Gitchyseff one. And don’t look back.
Some crime rates are down considerably.
For me, personally, since I no longer have a ~40 minute commute to and from work I have so much more free time after work now.
Animal adoptions up:
People are realizing whose job is essential.
Overseas call centers (and I suspect many here in the US) are on lockdown, drastically reducing the number of robocalls.