• kozy138
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    27
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

    Seriously… Covid was an eye opener me as well.

    It was so much quieter outside. The air was cleaner. Animals were returning to previously deserted areas at remarkable rates.

    Everyone was itching to get back to “normal,” but normal was what was causing all of the destruction on the first place.

    The government should literally be paying people to stay home and do nothing. I remember reading somewhere that it is more cost effective in the long run. Rather than fixing damage and rebuilding cities after increasingly severe natural disasters.

    • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      I live on a really busy parish road and I noticed the same thing. The first 3 months of the COVID timeline were great. My company sent everyone home and we all worked remotely and the traffic on the road at my house dropped to almost nothing. It was glorious. I’m still working from home because my company sold the office building they owned and hasn’t built a new one. I can’t say the same for other companies because traffic is horrible in front of my house. The noise and the air quality are back to pre COVID levels of suck.