It'd take more than a week, but even now, if the whole world coordinated a simultaneous quarantine, we'd eliminate covid, the flu, the common cold, and a thousand nameless respiratory cruds.
Everyone would be very difficult. You'd still need some people to make sure essential services are still functioning, and that still involves quite a large number of people.
That was my first thought as well. With COVID, we recognised that WFH was viable for white collar work. Perhaps a global 2 week cleanse will allow everyone to re-evaluate life priorities outside of the internet.
I see hope in what happened during the blackout in Spain/Portugal.
But essentially, with the power down, people came out as a community and life went on without technology. Granted, the power came back within a day, but I have confidence that they would have found a way.
It'd take more than a week, but even now, if the whole world coordinated a simultaneous quarantine, we'd eliminate covid, the flu, the common cold, and a thousand nameless respiratory cruds.
No we wouldn't, most of those viruses infect other animals as well, and would just start reinfecting humans.
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Everyone would be very difficult. You'd still need some people to make sure essential services are still functioning, and that still involves quite a large number of people.
That was my first thought as well. With COVID, we recognised that WFH was viable for white collar work. Perhaps a global 2 week cleanse will allow everyone to re-evaluate life priorities outside of the internet.
I see hope in what happened during the blackout in Spain/Portugal.
what happened there ?
Sorry about that, you can see this for reference: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70zg3e5ej2o
But essentially, with the power down, people came out as a community and life went on without technology. Granted, the power came back within a day, but I have confidence that they would have found a way.
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I think they are referring to the reports of people suddenly meeting on the streets and hanging out together back then.
Nothing, I guess, and that is a good thing, I guess: the world didn't even by a day (few days?) without electricity.