So some of the good has been no worries about speeding traps -- or even tickets if you're not just doing something really stupid. Another has been parking. Some of the locations have been a bit tight on parking prior. Now, life is good.

out of the pandemic for me is . . . . after having lived through the plague, I totally get Italian Renaissance painting now where all the women just lay around with their tits out.  

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For those who are still alive.
And who are still in good health.  
And who still have a job.
And who have a job that doesn't expose them to the coronavirus every day. And who aren’t worried about losing their job, or business, or home in the coming days or weeks, or even how they’ll feed themselves and their families.

In the beginning there weren't any. But now there are plenty of cops around with radar. Luckily, I've got a very good detector and an active anti-laser system, which let me take advantage of the less-crowded roads for a high-speed run every few days.

and some culture the whole pandemic was worth it!  lol

Lighten up a bit. I've been on the "more risks and dying" side and certainly on the everyone needs to make realistic assessments of the risks they both face directly and could be indirectly exposing others to. But that necessarily means no such thing as one size fits all.

though only for limited private events like testing and track days with no spectators. But there's also a tentative schedule for amateur and pro races, depending on how things go. Just talked to a buddy who's hoping to race again this season in vintage events. Fingers crossed!

as for culture. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I'm pretty sure I don't follow why they laid around with their tits out?

you get that in Art 301

I could find on the effect of the bubonic plague on the Italian Renaissance.  The long and short of it is that, after they cleared out all of the DB's, the available wealth was spread out through fewer people, leading to luxury lives of excess.  

Also led to the serf/peasant class getting more rights and better compensation, as there weren't enough warm bodies to meet labor demands.

Your thread title included the good and the bad of the pandemic. But your OP only covered some “good” things you’ve noticed. Nothing wrong with counting our luck/blessings and cheering on the efforts to develop vaccines. I do every day. But this is a situation that requires empathy for the millions of people for whom the bad far outweighs the good.  

PLEASE take Jensen's advice and just lighten the fuck up a little. There are dozens of threads with serious discussions about the COVID crisis, You don't need to piss on the one or two lighter hearted threads on the subject.

very few peasants depicted in Italian Renaissance paintings, just occasional house servants (holding up saggy tits? lol).  Serfs don't make a very attractive picture.  On the other hand, surfs do, but there was very few of those as well.  Lol

As GaG did pick up on, the OP is largely to be humors and lighthearted take on the problems. We spend a lot of time being serious about the situations and how it relates to the P4P activities. That is good to do, there are serious problems that some have to confront.

“It’s too soon.”

Oh wait, I think that was actually Jensen's advice to you, but I say it better. He's too fucking nice to say it properly.

I'll say it another.  
Don't stop fighting that's the fun in this here.  
Pretend to get offended as when I post with the angry emoji.  
Whatever. Let's laugh at everything even when we are pretending to be the opposite of angry or sad.  

Well, on the lightening up side I do have to admit I screwed up the down side. Here I was stupidly think the reopening aspect to the pandemic and the expected reduction in readily available parking was a bad to associate with the pandemic event in general.

as you just did, is exactly what I was trying to get across in my reply to your OP.  Thank you for a thoughtful response.  

you don’t actually read what you post, for example: