So that was the fifth week of lockdown

[julesjones]

The new normal is that the streets are mostly eerily quiet, the office is never more than two thirds full, and in order to keep it that way those of us who are actually in are now on a rota with a couple of people each day given a paid-for day at home. Almost all of our work isn't suitable for working from home, and while we've created hacks to allow people to do so, it requires people physically in the office to handle putting stuff in and out of the paper files and the database that has zero access from outside the building. There are currently only so many laptops to go around, and those are all with people who can't come in at all. Things will improve, if slowly.

My rota day together with a day's annual leave meant I was only in work for three days last week. Annual leave isn't an issue as long as it's compatible with necessary minimum number of warm bodies in seats, because Grandboss would rather we didn't burn out.

It's been mostly okay, other than on Friday night when two people got on the bus and refused to spread out in spite of various people asking/telling them to do so. They wanted to sit in the front seats with space in front to put their shopping on the floor, and if that meant sitting right next to other people so what. I was one of the other people, although some of the other passengers made enough of a row about it that he stood up again and stood next to the seat rather than sitting down on it. They thought it was a great joke that people were worried about coronavirus. People like that are a small minority, but the spread rate on this thing is horrendous, and one of them could have infected several people around him who could then infect several other people. It doesn't take many selfish people to make a lot of deaths and long term effects.

Comments

[oracne]

In Philadelphia, people are required to get on at the back of the bus and the front area behind the driver is blocked off. They aren't charging for service so you don't need to pass through the front door at all.

I am lucky to be able to mostly work from home, so I haven't been on a bus since March 16th. The schedule is reduced, as well.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I am impressed by how sensible most people are being, but as you say, it only takes one idiot to pass the virus on to lots of others. I've seen articles that suggest that R0 (the infectiousness) is likely to be as high as 5.5 or even 6. So without social distancing, one infectious person can infect 5 or 6 others.

I wouldn't mind if it was just the idiots who will suffer the consequences of reckless behaviour, but it never is. Other people will be affected too.

[katlinel]

Aagghhh, why do people think their shopping bags are more important than people's lives?