WFH, whether I like it or not...

[nosrednayduj]

My company just declared that we're all working from home until April 1. This is sort of OK with me, since my commute is annoying, but the main reason I like going in to the office is non-electronic contact with my coworkers. Also, I'm having ergonomic issues; normally I use remote desktop to my laptop at work, but I brought the laptop home yesterday -- and it doesn't have a VGA connector, which is what my monitor needs. I've set up something tolerable.

Fortunately, or perhaps scarily, I'm scheduled to leave Friday for a trip to see my parents. And maybe go to a square dance, if it isn't cancelled. Looking like its venue is cancelling, so the whole thing may be off. Or enough people might punt that it'll be small enough to fit in someone's garage. Playing by ear. I've got a flight out of SFO Monday the 23rd, and pre-paid motel reservations (regretting the $10/night savings right about now...) so I'll at least be down there for part of the time. Maybe if the dance gets completely cancelled I can change my plane flights to go back from SMF earlier.

Or maybe I can use the extra time to go skiing? Skiing seems like a way to not get anyone's viruses, you're encased in lots of clothing and mostly being far from other people. Figuring out a way to bring minimum stuff for this purpose, like using yoga pants instead of long underwear and lightweight rain pants plus jeans instead of ski pants. I'll have to check with ski areas to see if they're closing or if business is booming. *Someone* has to be benefiting from this disruption...

Anyway, mostly I'm just going about my regular business, gonna bring a couple surgical masks we have kicking around but not sure I'm gonna wear them on the plane. What I'd really like is a pair (or two) of lightweight gloves. We need to all wear those white gloves little old ladies used a century or two ago.

Comments

[apparentparadox]

Masks don't really do a lot for healthy people avoiding viruses. COVID-19 is more of a surfaces problem than an airborne problem, and most people don't have the masks adjusted properly to keep out airborne particles anyway. And, some people apparently keep adjusting their masks -- which means touching their faces -- and so put themselves at more risk.

[lauradi7dw]

I have seen a few people with white cotton gloves on in the past few days. Unless you take the gloves off in a medically correct way and clean them before re-using, I don't know that they help much. I have noticed on the T (bus and subway) that people are trying to keep their distance, and some people including me are not touching the poles or straps. My plane yesterday was less than half full, so there was some spreading out.
Tech squares is done for the semester, I think. I hope you get to do something fun if your dance doesn't happen. My brother-in-law's restaurant birthday celebration this weekend is probably going to turn into a hike, so we can all be together but not *close* together.