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1) A friend recently said, "All of this history is going to make a sensational thriller for a new generation in about 20 years, like WWII is for us now." I personally think that in 20 years, that generation is going to look back in amazement at how we used to live, and how careless we were about health issues among many others. I started thinking about all the changes we're likely to see this October or whenever restrictions lift completely, as well as stuff we're not hearing much about.
a) After months of keeping our distance, I can't imagine not backing away automatically if someone approaches.
b) Are most of the stores and restaurants in airports going to close? I mean, there are still travelers now, but rents are high and they make money based on volume. There have not been that many travelers and there might be even fewer over the next months.
c) Not that businesses haven't already been doing a lot of consolidation, but I can imagine that there's going to be much more of it in 2021 as smaller players in hard hit industries (hotels for one) may not have the capital to keep going.
d) How much better will we understand the jobs of housemates and family members after months of overhearing calls, lectures, conferences and more?
e) Will there finally be a push for workplace child care and family leave policies? Workmates and supervisors will be learning more than ever about one another's home situations and how difficult it is to try to balance caretaking and work.
f) There will not only likely be more planning about end of life issues but I hope it will be the first chip in the wall that currently bars people from the right to die.
g) Will sex trafficking encounters decrease with everyone shut in? Not unrelatedly, how much will the divorce rate increase?
h) With all the cases of 19 on cruise ships, what's happening with all the military ships around the world? Will there be renewed breakouts wherever they're in port?
i) Medicare in the U.S. will cover a lot of the 19 cases since the oldest are the hardest hit. But there will be a lot of costs to the private insurers too. I imagine there will be premium hikes this year or next. Costs can be considerable as the following point shows.
2) An article in Dutch media is pretty clear about just how hard it is for people with the most serious cases of 19 to recover from it.
"The threshold for admitting patients to an IC is lower in Italy than in the Netherlands. It could, in addition to the extreme explosion of seriously ill corona patients, be one of the reasons that ICs are overcrowded in Italy and that hospitals are overflowing. 'In the Netherlands, there is usually much better thought about whether a patient benefits from such a long intake of ventilation,' says Van der Spoel. Whether there is corona or not: we don't just take a patient in. It is different in those countries.”
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And that requires quite a bit. "You have to be in reasonable shape beforehand to get out of intensive care properly," says Van der Spoel. "It is an attack to be on the ventilator for so long. The muscle mass of IC patients decreases by a few percent every day, including the respiratory muscles. After two or three weeks on the ICU, you will embark on a long rehabilitation process, even when you are young. That can take half a year to a year and often you don't become the old one anymore. '
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"In the nursing home," says Martens, "the number of patients we would send to the hospital with serious medical problems such as corona can be counted on our fingers. We only submit if we expect people to have sufficient capacity to recover."
And apparently that's why the majority of ICU patients in the Netherlands are under 60 rather than over.
3) We discovered well after the fact that Trevor had only taken a week off and the Daily Show was back all last week. But our DVR function wasn't recording it because the show title was altered and it didn't pick it up. So now we're doing catch-up. The shows were ok, as was Colbert's return from home. Sam Bee shooting outdoors was a nice change of pace. It's interesting to see these shows when they come down to the basics.
James Corden appears not to have recorded anything for weeks. It makes sense since so much of what he does is either in-person games with the audience or chat with the band, as well as face to face with guests. And there are fewer celebrities needing to promote anything now, since so much stuff is unfinished or in delayed release. This is less of a problem for the news-comedy shows because their guests might have been from a variety of areas, particularly The Daily Show's. But Sam Bee is hamstrung by not being able to do field report segments now.
John Oliver's latest episode was impressive. For shooting from home it was seamless and frankly I didn't miss the audience at all. Granted, he's only doing 1 a week, not 4 or 5, but then that was always true. I joked with Mike that it's no wonder he gets all the Emmys. But besides the schedule he rarely does interviews or field pieces. So everything he does can be done online, since it's all either research or writing.
By comparison, having to involve correspondents (Daily Show and Sam Bee) or interview guests weakens the shows. The correspondents are often limited, unless they're doing the interviews, and in any case those are often awkward and less easily made funny due to the editing and voiceovers common in the field pieces. Even before this we generally skipped all Colbert and Daily Show interviews, and since Stephen rarely does recurring bits anymore (such as my favorite, the community calendar segments) that meant we watched only the monologue.
By comparison, John Oliver generally had two segments in his show set off by "And Now...This" clips so the whole show was a sort of monologue. While all the hosts have had some good moments so far in their shows, and I have not missed the audience in any of them, only Oliver's could go on like this indefinitely with very little lost.
4) During The COVID-19 Outbreak, Evictions Get A Pause...In Final Fantasy 14
5) Took part in an icon meme, where![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
littlestclouds picked 3 of them for me to discuss:
The top one is, I'm assuming, from a photoshoot done by August Richards, probably during S5 of Angel, when Gunn became an attorney. I figured as often as writing is a topic in these parts, an icon with a pen was apropos. Plus, it looks so stylish.
The second is from Supernatural, and it tickled me because I am notorious for using coupons. I confess, I've used this very infrequently because it is rarely relevant and I almost took it out of my set last year when I had to pare back the icons.
The third is a recent addition. It just seemed so cheery, and got added to my set shortly before we could all use some cheeriness. Plus, I had some cat icons and no dog ones, so…PUPPY.
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a) After months of keeping our distance, I can't imagine not backing away automatically if someone approaches.
b) Are most of the stores and restaurants in airports going to close? I mean, there are still travelers now, but rents are high and they make money based on volume. There have not been that many travelers and there might be even fewer over the next months.
c) Not that businesses haven't already been doing a lot of consolidation, but I can imagine that there's going to be much more of it in 2021 as smaller players in hard hit industries (hotels for one) may not have the capital to keep going.
d) How much better will we understand the jobs of housemates and family members after months of overhearing calls, lectures, conferences and more?
e) Will there finally be a push for workplace child care and family leave policies? Workmates and supervisors will be learning more than ever about one another's home situations and how difficult it is to try to balance caretaking and work.
f) There will not only likely be more planning about end of life issues but I hope it will be the first chip in the wall that currently bars people from the right to die.
g) Will sex trafficking encounters decrease with everyone shut in? Not unrelatedly, how much will the divorce rate increase?
h) With all the cases of 19 on cruise ships, what's happening with all the military ships around the world? Will there be renewed breakouts wherever they're in port?
i) Medicare in the U.S. will cover a lot of the 19 cases since the oldest are the hardest hit. But there will be a lot of costs to the private insurers too. I imagine there will be premium hikes this year or next. Costs can be considerable as the following point shows.
2) An article in Dutch media is pretty clear about just how hard it is for people with the most serious cases of 19 to recover from it.
"The threshold for admitting patients to an IC is lower in Italy than in the Netherlands. It could, in addition to the extreme explosion of seriously ill corona patients, be one of the reasons that ICs are overcrowded in Italy and that hospitals are overflowing. 'In the Netherlands, there is usually much better thought about whether a patient benefits from such a long intake of ventilation,' says Van der Spoel. Whether there is corona or not: we don't just take a patient in. It is different in those countries.”
…
And that requires quite a bit. "You have to be in reasonable shape beforehand to get out of intensive care properly," says Van der Spoel. "It is an attack to be on the ventilator for so long. The muscle mass of IC patients decreases by a few percent every day, including the respiratory muscles. After two or three weeks on the ICU, you will embark on a long rehabilitation process, even when you are young. That can take half a year to a year and often you don't become the old one anymore. '
…
"In the nursing home," says Martens, "the number of patients we would send to the hospital with serious medical problems such as corona can be counted on our fingers. We only submit if we expect people to have sufficient capacity to recover."
And apparently that's why the majority of ICU patients in the Netherlands are under 60 rather than over.
3) We discovered well after the fact that Trevor had only taken a week off and the Daily Show was back all last week. But our DVR function wasn't recording it because the show title was altered and it didn't pick it up. So now we're doing catch-up. The shows were ok, as was Colbert's return from home. Sam Bee shooting outdoors was a nice change of pace. It's interesting to see these shows when they come down to the basics.
James Corden appears not to have recorded anything for weeks. It makes sense since so much of what he does is either in-person games with the audience or chat with the band, as well as face to face with guests. And there are fewer celebrities needing to promote anything now, since so much stuff is unfinished or in delayed release. This is less of a problem for the news-comedy shows because their guests might have been from a variety of areas, particularly The Daily Show's. But Sam Bee is hamstrung by not being able to do field report segments now.
John Oliver's latest episode was impressive. For shooting from home it was seamless and frankly I didn't miss the audience at all. Granted, he's only doing 1 a week, not 4 or 5, but then that was always true. I joked with Mike that it's no wonder he gets all the Emmys. But besides the schedule he rarely does interviews or field pieces. So everything he does can be done online, since it's all either research or writing.
By comparison, having to involve correspondents (Daily Show and Sam Bee) or interview guests weakens the shows. The correspondents are often limited, unless they're doing the interviews, and in any case those are often awkward and less easily made funny due to the editing and voiceovers common in the field pieces. Even before this we generally skipped all Colbert and Daily Show interviews, and since Stephen rarely does recurring bits anymore (such as my favorite, the community calendar segments) that meant we watched only the monologue.
By comparison, John Oliver generally had two segments in his show set off by "And Now...This" clips so the whole show was a sort of monologue. While all the hosts have had some good moments so far in their shows, and I have not missed the audience in any of them, only Oliver's could go on like this indefinitely with very little lost.
4) During The COVID-19 Outbreak, Evictions Get A Pause...In Final Fantasy 14
5) Took part in an icon meme, where
littlestclouds picked 3 of them for me to discuss: The top one is, I'm assuming, from a photoshoot done by August Richards, probably during S5 of Angel, when Gunn became an attorney. I figured as often as writing is a topic in these parts, an icon with a pen was apropos. Plus, it looks so stylish.
The second is from Supernatural, and it tickled me because I am notorious for using coupons. I confess, I've used this very infrequently because it is rarely relevant and I almost took it out of my set last year when I had to pare back the icons.
The third is a recent addition. It just seemed so cheery, and got added to my set shortly before we could all use some cheeriness. Plus, I had some cat icons and no dog ones, so…PUPPY.
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