![]() ![]() The impact of Covid-19 on the global economy is likely to be unprecedented since the 1930s Great Depression ( Euronews, 2020). Is Covid-19 an example of this – we think so? After Covid-19 the world will not be the same and notwithstanding numerous apocalyptic movies, conspiracy theorists, and political opportunists, we cannot but help to hope that future pandemics can be avoided if we learn the lessons, we cannot help but think should have been learned before Covid-19. That is, after shocks that change cultures happen, people within those shocked cultures almost immediately rationalize such events by reflecting that they could have been predicted and probably avoided. While Taleb (2008) discussed a range of examples of such past events (such as the events of 911) his analysis highlighted that human responses to such shocks tend toward critical reverse prediction. In many regards, we view Covid-19 as analogous to that which Taleb (2008) calls a ‘Black Swan Event’ – a shocking event that changes the world (as similarly also noted concurrently by a number of authors and editors – see for example Grech, 2020, Mazzoleni et al., 2020). The pain is personal, emotional, psychological, societal, economic, and cultural and it will leave scars. Notwithstanding the human tragedy of lost lives, broken families, and scarred communities, the economic and social changes caused by a pandemic-driven lockdown will constitute a cultural legacy which will live long in our memories and those of future generations. Like other global events with planet-wide impact, Covid-19 could potentially change how we see the world, the ways in which we think, and how we conduct our lives. What we do know is that the world has changed. Probably one of the most important ways to cope with this lockdown to avoid any deterioration of mental and physical wellbeing is to take advantage of the situation to reflect on something that we cherish the most in our research, in our case corporate social responsivity (CSR) and marketing. What is more, we have to do this with little prior warning or training. Whilst academics like us are still busy with our usual research activities, we are learning to adjust to a new reality and way of work (and life, though the boundary is diminished during lockdown) with online meetings with colleagues, research students, and of course quite ‘dauntingly’ online teaching. No,I didn't cheat.Where the lift was heading to the secret labratory,down there this vent broke down,and I thought I'd check it out.One the seeable hole of the vent there was nothing there just blank darkness,but then you had to crawl up the broken vent and crawl up to the maximum.Then you have to look at the place where the vent broke,into that hole there is the easter egg.I felt fantastic about finding it,because that was like my first easter egg I recognized in gaming.And I never cheat,NEVER.I play the game without even the thought about cheating,because that would spoil the gameplay,and I know I would just go and spoil everything for me.Sometimes I press the ~ button on mistake and it opens a console,but I never write anything in it,except if I am stuck somewhere and there is a bug in the game,and that is on very rare occasions.I always try to find the way out on the forums,and if using the console is unavoidable,then what is left to me than just using the console so I could get further.There,that took some time to write but at least you can't accuse me of cheating anymore.We are writing this article during the first period of lockdown in the UK and being “responsible citizens” by complying with the social distancing measures. Originally posted by constancejill:Does that mean you are cheating?Īt least that's what I understand reading that other thread about it. ![]()
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