Clear skies in LA during COVID lockdown

There was actually a lot of good news during that time. How quickly nature recovers when humans just collectively stop milling about for a while. Did we learn a lesson from that? I fear not. The economy needs to roll on!
- We learned it is much harder to keep tabs on workers when we can't physically see them and that is much more important than productivity.
  
  Also that commercial real estate is more important than residential estate.

It's Humans, hi, we're the problem, it's us.
- In the case of LA specifically, it's the cars. That's what's changed in this picture - no cars on the road commuting to work.
  
  People driving cars, making cars. We are overpopulated. When lemmings or any other animal gets overpopulated, they get some disease and numbers get lower. When we get that, we overcome the obstacle and the population doesn't get significantly reduced. That is why we keep fucking up the planet. Nothing to stop us, except ourselves. And if that happens, we take all other life with us.

At the time, I was just a few miles from I-5 and the noise travelled pretty far. The first month or two of lockdowns, it was super quiet with barely anyone on the highway.

In Kenmore WA, you could hear a pin drop. The birds sang and you could hear your self think. It was weirdly quiet.

Everyone at the time "we should really try and keep this...right I'm off to the corner shop in my f250"