Pandemic Day

[petrea_mitchell]

Technically the fourth anniversary of the pandemic was sometime last November, but since we don't know the exact date, all the articles on "X Years of the Pandemic" get timed to the day when the WHO finally was able to bring itself to use the p-word.

I never thought I'd like working from home long-term, yet here I am now, still doing it and never wanting to have a commute again. When the office shutdown turned out to be far longer than anyone first expected, I also thought my new habit of a psuedo-commute with a walk around the neighborhood every morning and evening wouldn't survive the arrival of winter weather, but I've managed to keep it up except for the occasional day when the amount of snow and ice really wouldn't permit.

We'd been planning to travel to New Zealand for Worldcon in 2020, and my passport was out for renewal at the time the shutdown occurred. Last year I finally used it when I went to Winnipeg for Pemmi-Con. It was when copying information from it into the ArriveCAN app that I finally noticed something ironic: it was issued March 13, 2020, the very day my company switched to indefinite WFH.

Comments

[athenais]

What four years they have been. My job evaporated literally overnight and took ages to fluff back up to normal, an age being a year and a half. But John doesn't mind having WFH most of the time. He missed seeing people, but not as much as he enjoyed not driving in Bay Area traffic.