Did you experience any positive side-effects of the pandemics?

Question

The current pandemics gives a pause to many social activities. By necessity, many gatherings and classes were canceled; furthermore, remote work was introduced in many workplaces.I would like to ask which things you found useful thanks to remote works, remote learning, or canceling other plans?Did you discover new approaches, tools, or other things that you would like to share with others?I mean both practical (e.g. "it turned out that meetings were not useful", "doing classes online makes it much easier to create re-usable materials") and other impressions & reflections (e.g. "it turned out that reading a book in my own place was more relaxing than skying in Italy", or "it became socially acceptable to say to no parties").

solresol · Accepted Answer

I was recording a remote class (I often teach face-to-face), and decided to put 5-second musical intro to it. So I composed some music for the first time in close to a decade.Also, I've discovered how lucrative it is to have clients in the USA when you are in another country (Australia) that is going through a pandemic-driven currency collapse. Every client has just given me a 10% pay rise.

staticautomatic · Answer

It's been a boon to my cooking by making me get creative with foods I make infrequently, ingredients I don't often use, and stores I visit rarely. Bread will go stale but you can stock up on flour and yeast! Store running out of rice? How about cornmeal? That too? Buy masa at the bodega. Whole Foods running out of beans? The Indian grocery store is still chock full of daal and gigantic containers of shelf-stable ghee to boot.

Trias11 · Answer

Discovering strategies to make money during down market. There are lots of opportunities

iKevinShah · Answer

I discovered that my office isn't that far away. It is just that traffic made you feel so. Also everyone is so concerned about hygiene and sanitizing everything, feels good.

atarian · Answer

It's created a lot of awareness and peer pressure around hygiene, which I'm very grateful for. I'm sure we've all caught that coworker or friend leaving the bathroom without washing their hands or not covering their face when they sneeze.

shahbaby · Answer

I discovered that bodyweight workouts at home are surprisingly good. It's not a replacement for a gym workout but it's much better than doing nothing.