Well it's back to work for me tomorrow

[underpants]

Full staff back. Full time.
This should be my last week only going in two days a week (since early July) but a coworker is on vacation so I have certain duties to cover. I’ve been teleworking since March oh and how I LOVED IT. No commute - beach attire - at least lunch with the family - my office was my recliner (it’s called a laptop for a reason) - still doing the normal amount of work.


Last week was basically all back in except for me and a few others.

I have my own office and my wife bought me a little (dorm room size) refrigerator so I don’t have to even go into the common kitchen room. I’m going with sandwiches and things that don’t require microwaving. I snuck the fridge in a few weeks ago when it was still a split crew. We have a cafeteria on site but it’s not open yet. Really good but everything will be pick up once it opens.

Less than 20 people total in my building. I’d say about 100 on the whole job site but they are mostly still at home. With vacation and two people who have big concerns we aren’t still really full. No elevators.

I wonder if I should wear this.

[littlemissmartypants]

1. That and don't forget pants.

Bon Voyage!

❤ lmsp

[underpants]

2. ✅

I’ll put that on my list. Thanks.

[Roland99]

3. I managed a full day in my office last week. felt good

I've been cramped up on our nook table for a few weeks now. I enjoy when I go in overnights for troubleshooting or updates but it's been wreaking havoc on my sleep schedule

But, yes, wear the sticker (and maybe write in "a few days ago" under it )

[underpants]

4. Ha!

You’re killing me tonight Roland.

[Roland99]

6. you're being too kind

now, if you'll excuse me, I have some phone banking for Kanye to get back to....


"Hi, yes, I'm calling from the KKK, the Kommittee for King Kanye. Do you have a few moments to listen to my testimonial?"

"*click*. bzzzzzzz"

[StrictlyRockers]

9. Bravo lmao

[progressive nobody]

5. Good luck, stay safe and I hope they change it back so you are at home.

I am grateful I am full time.

[underpants]

7. A coworker said last week

We’ll be lucky to make it a month. I don’t want to be too specific but we do have visitors on a daily basis. If one of them gets sick I think the whole thing closes again. This coworker is a medical person.

I think we’ll be home again after Thanksgiving. There are concerns about some possible at least partial furloughs.

[StrictlyRockers]

8. Good luck, stay safe!

Safety first. I still wear gloves a lot.

[underpants]

10. Masks are required

At least if we are out of our offices.
Lots a regular daily cleaning. I have a wipe with me every time I leave my office.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Keep in mind that people are not getting this

from contaminated surfaces. They're getting it from airborne particles.

[underpants]

12. Yeah. I spray my office when I enter

And the copier room several times a day. I got ahold of 3 cases of aerosol disinfectant which is really hard to find.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. And I don't think the airborne particles linger for hours.

I am somewhat reminded of Ebola, and how people here totally freaked out over that one case in Texas. Ebola is really hard to get. You have to have close and intimate contact with bodily fluids to get it. In fact, the people who lived in the same apartment as that poor, unfortunate man, and who were not allowed to leave after he went into the hospital the second time, and were not even allowed to remove the bloodied sheets from his bed, they did not contract it.

With Covid-19 you pretty much need to be in an enclosed space and people who have the virus are breathing there. Or singing or shouting or some such. If the air circulation isn't very good, uh oh. As disheartening as the numbers are, it's still a very small fraction of people who are even getting infected, let alone sick or dying. It does seem to me as if the real issue is that at least some of those who don't die are either sick for a very long time (I personally know a man who has been sick for over 100 days now) or have organ complications that are serious.

The real result of this virus may very well be not the numbers of those who die, but the many who need constant, ongoing care for years or perhaps decades.

If I were a better writer I'd write the novel taking place 50 years in the future. Covid-19 is still with us, because an effective vaccine somehow is not possible. Meanwhile some sufficiently noticeable percentage of people are sick or disabled from the disease and a third of the populous is engaged in caring for those people. Human civilization would be almost entirely supportive: growing crops, moving essential goods from place to place, and caring for the Covid-19 sick. Not exactly apolcalyptic, but incredibly disheartening. A country willing to euthanize all those not fit to contribute to society would gain the upper hand. I really wish I could write that novel, but I suspect it would be, even if well written, essentially unpublishable. I could, of course, always publish independently, but probably few people would want to read it.