(Dane here) I loved working from home, running a VM with a setup for work works surprisingly well. I hate not seeing other people in the flesh. Not that I nee

(Dane here) I loved working from home, running a VM with a setup for work works surprisingly well. I hate not seeing other people in the flesh. Not that I need it every day or even every week, but a month is far too long. And online, even with video doesn't work as a replacement (part of this, is suspect, is the crappy quality of every online service videos stream. I pay for Zoom, and even they can't ensure smooth HD video). That was not exactly the lesson I suspected I would learn, as a nerd. Every volunteer organization is shut down around here, as are all museums and libraries; bars, coffee shops and restaurants; and any other entertainment venue. That means that the only thing to do is go look at nature, which gets boring after the fifth identical tree. When this is over I kinda hope they are all paved over. Finally, I learned how pointless our politicians are, since every single party voted in favor of the bills that strips us of essential freedoms. We are due to have an election within 3 years, but there is essentially no way for me to register my disapproval in a democratic way. Not that it would matter: our PMs approval ratings have exploded, because they always do that when there is a crisis. People forgot that it was her inability to handle it correctly back in February that send us into this disaster.