LamieRobertson
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Wizzy...what do you make of this unusually positive reporting by bbc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52933804
Just 35 new cases reported for the entirety of Wales yesterday - population 3,136,000.
This thing is ****ing off pretty quickly now.
And yet we’re just bringing in face masks and travel quarantine now. Utterly bizarre.
Wasn't sure if this belonged here or its own thread, but I certainly consider it good news. Working from home is, indeed, being accepted.
I had to go in to the office yesterday for the first time since lockdown as our lease runs out at the end of the month and I had some bits to pack into storage and equipment to bring home. Talked to my boss this morning about our plans for a new office (or, rather, lack of them, since we have been told to pack the old one but nothing about the new one).
She told me that it would be 3-6 months before we bothered moving at all and then it'll be to a smaller office where not everyone will be expected in each day. Separately, I've conducted a number of meetings and demos with my clients using Skype and Teams and we're planning on extending our travel ban to the end of the calendar year, as everyone is now used to doing things over the internet.
My company has always been quite reluctant to allow WFH. I used to get it on Fridays because I would be travelling away Monday - Thursday but not everyone did. It seems that saving a "substantial" monthly sum on non billable expenses and another substatial one from next month on rent has changed their minds. If we'd screwed up the business, of course, nothing would have changed but we have delivered well remotely.
Just good news for me right? Blowing my own trumpet? Well, a bit. But the point is we used to fly to these business meetings and many drove into the office. Work / life balance and the environment will both benefit if previously reluctant companies start shutting offices.
Of course, if you work in commercial property or an airline it's not great news - for now - but maybe your experience will get you a job in a slightly different industry that also allows you to either WFH or shorten your commute.
Just seen a study done in Irish schools, they found 6 cases in schools but the virus did not pass to anyone else, studies have shown children seem much less likely to pass the virus, partly because they are almost always symptomless I would guess.
This is quite striking and should provide a degree of comfort to anyone worried about risks of schools reopening - among 1,001 child contacts of six cases in a school there were no confirmed cases of COVID-19. In the school setting, among 924 child contacts and 101 adult contacts identified, there were no confirmed cases of COVID-19.
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.21.2000903
Convinced we will go very much the same way........one very senior exec admitted in a meeting this week he's become a WFH 'convert' over the last couple of months (many of us have been doing it for years anyway so it's no big deal) and now he's becoming a vocal advocate rather than a naysayer. I can see our group office space reducing dramatically, along with our ridiculous travel costs.
Not the thread for that discussion..................
perhaps but charts pointing that its all getting better are good but they really need to be put in context...
More pertinent to this thread and what I was originally going to post .... a very personal good news story. My wife came home on Tuesday from the Royal Marsden at Chelsea after 4 weeks in a COVID ward including 5 days in ICU.