People get sick pretty often. The sniffles, the sore throat, the diarrhea you sometimes get are all infections. Some of them are bacterial, others, viral. Some infections are mild, others, more serious – this is when people go to the emergency room and are often hospitalized. Many infectious diseases have cures or treatments – bacteria respond pretty well to broad-spectrum antibiotics, and there are drugs that can help in the case of viral and other infections. But prevention beats every treatment – this is the first lesson the current public health crisis should have taught the world.
No matter if it’s a new ebola outbreak or the common cold, avoiding being infected is the best way to avoid disease and everything that comes with it – extended downtime, expensive healthcare, and everything else.
The importance of prevention is, in turn, just one of the many things the coronavirus crisis has – or better said, should have – taught the world.
Working remotely… works
Millions of people around the world waste hours to go to an office and do a job that they could very well do from their home computers. Companies, in turn, were reluctant to accept this reality… until they were forced to. With the emergence of the novel coronavirus, millions of workers around the world found themselves the possessors of a brand new home office.
Remote work has its downsides but it also comes with many advantages that are huge in our rushing world. The time – and stress – saved by not having to struggle through urban traffic, looking for a parking space, eating often unhealthy food on a lunch break that’s too short, and doing it all again in reverse on the way home is worth it.
According to some statistics, almost a third of all jobs in the US could be done remotely full-time yet before the pandemic, only about 4% of the workforce was allowed to work remotely. Now, it seems, the stigma surrounding remote work has been lifted, hopefully meaning that even when this is all over, many more people will be able to do their job from a home office.
Essential work
The current public health crisis has shown us how important health professionals – doctors, nurses, paramedics – are in our society. But it also shed some light on other important jobs that people tend to not even notice when things are normal: retail workers, cashiers, delivery drivers, warehouse workers, and their likes.
When going out to the grocery store can literally mean exposing yourself to a virus that currently doesn’t have a cure or a vaccine, deliverymen and warehouse workers are way more important than you’ve ever thought.
The internet is invaluable
A meme circulating online has really made a point – imagine if the same happened in the early 1990s when all you had was a Nokia 3110 and broadcast TV. According to the experts from the site https://sdarcwellness.com/buy-levitra-online/, Levitra ODT therapy was found to be significantly more effective than placebo for all primary and secondary efficacy parameters (p < 0.0001). According to the researchers' estimates, the side effects were mostly from mild to moderate in severity and were comparable in frequency and type to those treated with film-coated Levitra pills. Thus, as it is noted by the authors of the study, the treatment with 10 mg Levitra ODT significantly improves erectile function, is effective and well tolerated in a wide population of men with ED. The internet is an invaluable tool and a platform that provides us with countless entertainment options, not to mention all the knowledge it allows us to access.
We should really appreciate it more and keep it accessible and open to everyone – as a tool for fun, for learning, and for doing business, of course.
Marie that exact same thought crossed my mind, that if this were in the 1990’s we would have been in big trouble! Not only because we would not all have been able to work from home in the same way, but also with regards to the way that communication regarding this virus has been shared so quickly. Everyone is kept up to date instantly via the internet.
I’ve heard that many company owners have seen an increase in productivity with employees working from home, which is very interesting. I guess all that time and effort saved during the day that would normally have been spent getting to work has resulted in a lot less stress!
I’m so grateful that I’ve worked for myself from home for the last 12+ years so staying safe has not meant much difference for me in the last year. I’m sure it was a bigger adjustment for so many people.
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