Covid-19 stuff
Feb. 12th, 2021 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingSo one of my coworkers has Covid-19.
In some ways, this is not surprising. If you'd asked me which of the rental company office staff (I don't know all of the maintenance staff as well) was most likely to get infected, I'd have picked Mr. Commercial. And indeed, he got Covid by attending a live in-person church service and singing, unmasked right next to his pastor... who, you guessed it, had Covid.
*headdesk*
Our best guess is that he was infected on Sunday the 7th and I have not had any direct contact with him since... I think Friday the 5th? so I am the least likely among us to have caught it from him. BUT. I have had contact with people who had contact with him, so even though we all wear masks at work in common areas and whenever two people are in the same room, who knows.
Ms. Rise-and-Shine called me this morning with the news, and then called back about 15 minutes later to say the downtown office will be closed today and tomorrow. She also said not to schedule a Covid test until Sunday, so as to give time for the virus to become noticeable (if, indeed, we have been infected). There weren't any Sunday slots available, so I checked in with Mom Boss and scheduled a Saturday morning test instead.
...
I will inform my parents, since we had lunch together on Wednesday.
And then I have an unexpected work-from-home day. I'm going to drive in to the office to grab the iPhone we use to take apartment tour videos and spend my afternoon pulling videos and photos off there and arranging them in useful folders... which I think will then go onto a USB drive that I can take in tomorrow. See, I can't go back to work in the main office until I get my test results, but because I'm not a direct exposure (just an exposure to a potential exposure), I don't have to quarantine and can work from the Commons office all alone, where I will have access to our shared office drive and other programs.
I'll also keep an eye on my company email, but other than that, this is halfway to being a day off.
Ah well, I'm sure I can think of something to fill the hours.
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ETA 6:30pm: I forgot why I'd been putting off the iPhone project since November, which is that the files A) have mismatched naming systems, B) have misleading timestamps, C) include a whole bunch of screwy duplicates from the period where every JPG photo also created a 2-second mirror MOV file, and D) therefore download without any coherent or useful way to organize them, because whether I sort by date OR by name OR by file type, things will always be out of order. ARGH.
Anyway, I got through August. I don't need to worry about January or February, since I've been downloading those files as I go and also got rid of the naming mismatches and the MOV duplicate glitch when I took over possession of the iPhone in November. But I am not looking forward to sorting September and October.
In some ways, this is not surprising. If you'd asked me which of the rental company office staff (I don't know all of the maintenance staff as well) was most likely to get infected, I'd have picked Mr. Commercial. And indeed, he got Covid by attending a live in-person church service and singing, unmasked right next to his pastor... who, you guessed it, had Covid.
*headdesk*
Our best guess is that he was infected on Sunday the 7th and I have not had any direct contact with him since... I think Friday the 5th? so I am the least likely among us to have caught it from him. BUT. I have had contact with people who had contact with him, so even though we all wear masks at work in common areas and whenever two people are in the same room, who knows.
Ms. Rise-and-Shine called me this morning with the news, and then called back about 15 minutes later to say the downtown office will be closed today and tomorrow. She also said not to schedule a Covid test until Sunday, so as to give time for the virus to become noticeable (if, indeed, we have been infected). There weren't any Sunday slots available, so I checked in with Mom Boss and scheduled a Saturday morning test instead.
...
I will inform my parents, since we had lunch together on Wednesday.
And then I have an unexpected work-from-home day. I'm going to drive in to the office to grab the iPhone we use to take apartment tour videos and spend my afternoon pulling videos and photos off there and arranging them in useful folders... which I think will then go onto a USB drive that I can take in tomorrow. See, I can't go back to work in the main office until I get my test results, but because I'm not a direct exposure (just an exposure to a potential exposure), I don't have to quarantine and can work from the Commons office all alone, where I will have access to our shared office drive and other programs.
I'll also keep an eye on my company email, but other than that, this is halfway to being a day off.
Ah well, I'm sure I can think of something to fill the hours.
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ETA 6:30pm: I forgot why I'd been putting off the iPhone project since November, which is that the files A) have mismatched naming systems, B) have misleading timestamps, C) include a whole bunch of screwy duplicates from the period where every JPG photo also created a 2-second mirror MOV file, and D) therefore download without any coherent or useful way to organize them, because whether I sort by date OR by name OR by file type, things will always be out of order. ARGH.
Anyway, I got through August. I don't need to worry about January or February, since I've been downloading those files as I go and also got rid of the naming mismatches and the MOV duplicate glitch when I took over possession of the iPhone in November. But I am not looking forward to sorting September and October.
