Sunday Thoughts November 26, 2023

I am back after a couple weeks off from doing the Sunday show. One week I was in Germany and one week I was too sick to record. The plague that tried to take me out was a nasty one. I rarely get sick and when I do it is for a day or two tops. I often get what I call plane sickness, which is basically a cold that lasts about a day when I return. It is twenty-four hours of a mild fever, one night of weird dreams and then maybe a day of recovery from a very mild cold.

Somewhere in my delirium I wondered if the trend toward working at home is going to result in more sever colds and flus, at least for some people.  The nature of my work and now working from home means I interact with far fewer humans than in the past. When we had the office, I socialized at work with people and with the people in the building. I went to lunch most days and traded germs with many strangers at various lunch places.

Over the last year, I have gone days without interacting in person with another human. My office is now next to my bedroom. I get up, write, have breakfast then shower and make the five-step commute to the office to do the day job. The diner is now in my kitchen. Meetings are zoom sessions. I try to take a long walk every day, but I rarely see another human, unless he is running for his life from the locals, which is a feature of life in Lagos.

Around here about half of workers work at home. During the day, the streets are empty as the number of people going out for lunch is half what it used to be, you see it at the fast-food places that used to have massive lines at lunchtime. The point is lots of people are now working at home, which means they have far fewer contacts with other humans and therefore fewer contacts with germs. In other words, the new pod life that is evolving is going to make us more vulnerable to germs.

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