First off, I know, I know. You’re thinking “Not another Corona article!”. Bear with me it’ll be sort-of short (if we’re both lucky my brain doesn’t go on a rant). I may do a few days here-and-there as well. We’ll play it by ear.
I want to cover a very basic health concern first. Even though Corona has a lot of factual information behind it, it still has an air of uncertainty for further danger. One thing that has been made relatively simple are the “Do the Five” steps by, I think, the WHO. Keep this in mind while we all go through this turbulent period. And if you’re the praying type, pray for those who are in dire positions right now related to the virus (people still working in public, elderly, other health issues, etc.).
So here we are on Day 1 of quarantine.
My company, like thousands of others, is having us work from home for a period of time while the (hopefully) major part of the Coronavirus does its thing here in the US. Aside from my first job in retail, the rest of my professional working life has been technical call/support center focused. Sure they could have done remote before now but there are always various business reasons why they can’t sometimes. It was just weird getting to sleep in about 20 more minutes and having a relatively small commute to work. ha-ha.
Here’s a quick photo of my temporary work setup. Pretty nice.
This virus, even since we’re just in the initial couple of months of it, has change the world forever. It may be subtle to non-existent for some or grand and adverse for others, but to everyone, directly or indirectly, it will affect you. This also goes for inanimate or intangible things, like the Internet. Particularly the Internet. This is a time for the Internet to shine and show proof to the world that the Internet can be a very quintessential part of everyday life going forward. Some people and companies will go back to before while others will adopt in-part or in-whole the telecommute/telepresence aspect that they otherwise wouldn’t or couldn’t before now.
At this point in my rambling, let me add a “sad that this is a needed preface” reality check: we should all know that there are some universal do’s and don’ts. “Universal” as in it does not matter if you’re black, white, fat, skinny, American, Afgan, straight, gay, male, female, non-binary, Republican, Democrat, or any other classification you could append here. This virus is no respecter of classification and we should reciprocate as a global humanity when in need.
You may think that last paragraph was vague or out of context, but it’s not. Sure, in the beginning when Corona was just forming nobody was to blame (I guess except for whoever/whatever created it), but what I’m referring to is the the last two or three weeks that are most important and under scrutiny. The moments you are reading about or seeing are often bloated and impartial facts by media, politically charged, or about the knuckleheads buying 18,000 units of hand sanitizer/ two pallets of toilet paper. Not even to the latter two extremes, people are panic buying resources even in small quantities, but if 1,000 people buy all of the, say, bread, then that is not available for the next person in a more dire situation. Yes, the laws of supply and demand are always in effect in life, but they shift exponentially in times like this … usually for the worse.
All of the chaos, and unbalanced behavior could be resolved with just common sense and critical thinking skills (both of which meld into the universal do’s and don’ts). Common sense would tell you it’s not right to do this or that, and critical thinking would tell you to proceed with caution or not buy stuff in surplus; none of this had to be rocket science. Unfortunately, in this day and age, a lot of people are not using and do not have common sense/critical thinking skills, and this, I think, is probably the key driving a factor in this whole “pandemic” that theoretically could have been mitigated otherwise.
I think I rambled on a bit too much. Yep, sorry.
Until the next update!
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