This is a great map but it just forgot to bring up the few good lessons we learned with Covid. Covid taught us that a lot of jobs, particularly tech, can be done remotely with equal or higher efficiency than before; Brilliant engineers in fields like networking and IT are walking out on companies that demanded them to be in the office again. People don't need to congregate in stuffed, large cities to perform a lot of well paying jobs. It gives countryside regions in countries more chances to develop, as the wealth starts to distribute geographically and services get more demand. When the dust settles, this will be a huge positive impact for pretty much everyone.
Yes, it's had a terrible impact that will be felt for several years. According to the Rand foundation, lockdowns do not actually do anything to stop the spread of the virus. When locked down areas were compared with unlocked down areas, there was no difference. So all this 20% loss was for nothing.
Love your work but I gotta disagree with you on this one. 20% is a heavy cost but I'd rather pay 20% than 100%. COVID is not like other diseases where you get it once and your body builds up an immunity. You can get it multiple times, it's even started to mutate now which means that it's even more deadly. It's up to everyone to pay that 20% so we can kill this thing off.
Dear Jeff, I'm totally with your post, you are absolutely right and I understand this way of thinking. But being on the other side of the spectrum, please want to urge everyone to be patiënt for a few more months. I work at an elderly care home, and can tell you the devastation this virus has brought is great. 3 times we had to endure an outbreak, and every time it was traced back to one stupid oversight, and once it started no amount of isolation measures could stop the progress through a ward or even the entire home. Each time loosing countless persons to this virus, in this agegroup you loose half to 2/3 of those infected. The lower we can get the virus spreading through our society, the more we protect our own parents and grandparents. Vaccins are doing their job, but vaccination rate is still too low. If we all step up for a few more months, we can beat this thing. So excuse me if I do not invite you and your family just yet, we can schedule something a few more months for now.
This is a great map but it just forgot to bring up the few good lessons we learned with Covid. Covid taught us that a lot of jobs, particularly tech, can be done remotely with equal or higher efficiency than before; Brilliant engineers in fields like networking and IT are walking out on companies that demanded them to be in the office again. People don't need to congregate in stuffed, large cities to perform a lot of well paying jobs. It gives countryside regions in countries more chances to develop, as the wealth starts to distribute geographically and services get more demand. When the dust settles, this will be a huge positive impact for pretty much everyone.
Yes, it's had a terrible impact that will be felt for several years. According to the Rand foundation, lockdowns do not actually do anything to stop the spread of the virus. When locked down areas were compared with unlocked down areas, there was no difference. So all this 20% loss was for nothing.
Hey Jeff,
Love your work but I gotta disagree with you on this one. 20% is a heavy cost but I'd rather pay 20% than 100%. COVID is not like other diseases where you get it once and your body builds up an immunity. You can get it multiple times, it's even started to mutate now which means that it's even more deadly. It's up to everyone to pay that 20% so we can kill this thing off.
Dear Jeff, I'm totally with your post, you are absolutely right and I understand this way of thinking. But being on the other side of the spectrum, please want to urge everyone to be patiënt for a few more months. I work at an elderly care home, and can tell you the devastation this virus has brought is great. 3 times we had to endure an outbreak, and every time it was traced back to one stupid oversight, and once it started no amount of isolation measures could stop the progress through a ward or even the entire home. Each time loosing countless persons to this virus, in this agegroup you loose half to 2/3 of those infected. The lower we can get the virus spreading through our society, the more we protect our own parents and grandparents. Vaccins are doing their job, but vaccination rate is still too low. If we all step up for a few more months, we can beat this thing. So excuse me if I do not invite you and your family just yet, we can schedule something a few more months for now.