Hey, this is Overpass Insights! My name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today, the arteries of our economy are unclogging.
Hey good morning everybody! It is a beautiful - a beautiful Monday morning
here in England! For the first time in months, I went for a run. The last time
I went for a long run I was like - oh when pandemic started, when the lockdown
started, I was running a lot and then I ended up hurting my hip so you know,
out of action for a long time, but just going for walks and today, getting up early,
going for a run. I just went to the gym equipment here at the park which I don't
think I'm really allowed to do, but screw it, you know, I just felt like getting out.
Because the big news about today here in England is that it's June 15th and
shops - non-essential shops are allowed to open. And of course, they have the social
distance, it's not gonna be the same but it's - it's just - it's a very positive
feeling. And not because I need to go shopping. I mean, one of the things like
Amazon and Argos and all the other shopping places, they've been working
really, really well here. And it's probably been such a hit to retail where
we all started to realize how much we don't need them so much, but it does mean
that the economy is gonna start to come back to life. It's like - it's like the
place, like the country was ill and it starting to get out of that illness.
Things are gonna start to progress ultimately. The arteries are becoming
unclogged and money will start to flow again. And all these people have been
really badly hurt by it are gonna, you know, hopefully, everything will start to
recover. I know it's gonna be a slow recovery but it's a recovery all the
same, right? To see slow little winds. I mean, the fact that I could go to the to
the gym equipment here at the park, I can't go to the gym - still can't go to
the gym, can't go to the pub, can't go to the cinema, but at least things are
slowly starting to come to life. And you know, it's all very, very positive.
And one of the - one of the things I'm really lucky for and as a
developer, especially as a developer who can work from home, was that - was I
wasn't too badly hit by it. I was still able to do a lot of work, so I'll be able
to get a lot of things done, but you know, there have been fewer clients, there's been
fewer, you know, less business coming in and I've noticed things started to pick
up over the last three weeks or so and I expect them to pick up even more
especially all of us all of us software developers
all of us people in technology right there's gonna be a lot of businesses
that weren't fully into technology or we're holding back a little bit they
were still very much brick and mortar because it was working for them and
they're gonna start to come to us to build the things for them right for
those of us who are in this field and you know so it's positive all around and
I think the next time this thing happens there's gonna be a lot more of an online
presence for those places that didn't have it anyway I don't really have a
whole lot to talk about I just wanted to just say hello to you guys you know just
okay so at the beginning of the year I did a video where I talked about action
Eric and I said 2020 is gonna be my year this is the year I'm gonna get things
done no more passive Eric this year I'm gonna get things done and if you had
said at the beginning of the year oh don't say that because you'll jinx it I
wouldn't have believed you don't say that cuz you'll jinx it and it might be
like a global pandemic and everything will slow down and and they'll be yeah
Toby there'll be no money for ages right I never would have believed it but I
guess maybe i jinxed it but but from now from June 15th this is it this is gonna
be action Eric okay this is a do-over things are gonna start to lurch back to
life slowly it's gonna become unclogged and things are starting to look up the
future is very very bright anyway let me know what you guys think do you agree do
you disagree and way that's it for today I'll talk to you guys again you know
what I'll talk to you again tomorrow
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