It's not just COVID anymore, or a triple-demic. Welcome to the 'new norm' of seasonal illnesses
It's not just COVID anymore, or a triple-demic. Welcome to the 'new norm' of seasonal illnesses
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If so, it seems like another argument in favour of letting most people work from home.
Can confirm. Have been working from home since 2019, haven't gotten sick once. Y'all can keep your germs.
But it'll never happen because it's bad for rich people.
Well it's bad for the rich people who own real estate (who seem to be behind the push against it), but most businesses can adapt (some sooner, some later) and probably see benefits. Big changes don't just happen overnight, though. Pressure has to be kept up for a while.
Specifically it's bad for rich people who own offices, but good for rich people who own businesses that don't need offices and now aren't expected to waste money on them.
The issue is that office space is leased for several years at a time, with the shortest leases being something like 5 years. It looks bad on the spread sheets when you have 3 years left on your lease, yet you're not using those offices because people want to work from home, so a lot of companies are trying to force people to go back to offices so they can get their yearly bonuses, even if it costs the company millions doing so.
All that does is establish an arbitrary new balance between the effectiveness of people's immune systems and the infectious diseases that continue to work through society. Any time you go from less societal interaction to more interaction there will be a boost in infections before it settles down to normal, but I'm not sure that the answer is to continually reduce societal interaction simply to reduce the spread of mild illnesses.