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The upswing, week 7
Mar. 7th, 2021 08:03 pmA year ago this past week, the week at work started with the only noticeable recent change being the hand sanitizer stations just inside all the entrances. IIRC they'd been installed the week before.
Wednesday of that week, March 4, word came down that the Seattle office was switching to remote work. I read all the information on the company intranet about instructions for taking equipment home and retrieving things from the office later if need be, figuring they might apply to my office at some point.
Thursday, the company announced that it would like everyone who possibly could to work from home the next day, so the VPN could be stress-tested to see what would happen in the event of all the offices shutting down. Which is what happened just a week later.
Looking back, it all seems to have happened so fast. I hope the same can be said for this March. Finding out that I'm eligible to be vaccinated in three weeks instead of three months is making it harder to wait.
Well, three weeks plus however long it takes to book an appointment. The supply of vaccine does keep increasing, but there are stories in the local news every day about people spending hours every day fruitlessly searching site after site and finding no appointments. Oregon is actually a bit ahead of the national average for percentage of population vaccinated so far, but demand is still far outstripping supply.
At least Oregon has not decided that cases plateauing and 90% of the population still not fully vaccinated is not the ideal time to drop its masking and distancing rules, unlike some states. I have friends and coworkers in Texas, and I'm desperately hoping everyone will be okay.
In our bubble, things continue much as ever. The weather is chilly, blustery, and showery, though when it clears up we can get a nice afternoon. Case in point, Wednesday managed to hit 60F, and on my afternoon walk with the SO (who's been joining me for my after-work "commute" since after the wildfires) we saw more people out and about than we've seen at one time in the neighborhood in months. But for the morning walk it had been foggy and 29F.
Wednesday of that week, March 4, word came down that the Seattle office was switching to remote work. I read all the information on the company intranet about instructions for taking equipment home and retrieving things from the office later if need be, figuring they might apply to my office at some point.
Thursday, the company announced that it would like everyone who possibly could to work from home the next day, so the VPN could be stress-tested to see what would happen in the event of all the offices shutting down. Which is what happened just a week later.
Looking back, it all seems to have happened so fast. I hope the same can be said for this March. Finding out that I'm eligible to be vaccinated in three weeks instead of three months is making it harder to wait.
Well, three weeks plus however long it takes to book an appointment. The supply of vaccine does keep increasing, but there are stories in the local news every day about people spending hours every day fruitlessly searching site after site and finding no appointments. Oregon is actually a bit ahead of the national average for percentage of population vaccinated so far, but demand is still far outstripping supply.
At least Oregon has not decided that cases plateauing and 90% of the population still not fully vaccinated is not the ideal time to drop its masking and distancing rules, unlike some states. I have friends and coworkers in Texas, and I'm desperately hoping everyone will be okay.
In our bubble, things continue much as ever. The weather is chilly, blustery, and showery, though when it clears up we can get a nice afternoon. Case in point, Wednesday managed to hit 60F, and on my afternoon walk with the SO (who's been joining me for my after-work "commute" since after the wildfires) we saw more people out and about than we've seen at one time in the neighborhood in months. But for the morning walk it had been foggy and 29F.
