enry: naughtyrev: kudayta: First World Problem of the Day:  I don't want to go back to working in the office.

Me either. I've built out a sweet home office and I can do everything from there, including having meetings while I'm on my stationary bike. But we have a corporate footprint. So I'll probably have to go back.

Corporate real estate is about to crater as leases come up.

Washington DC and the surrounding areas are in for a BIG sea-change.  My husband contracts for a NASA/Raytheon project, and neither company is eager to go back to the office.  Many companies like these will likely continue to be online, since they've now realized what we disabled folks have known for a long time: WE CAN DO ALL THIS SH*T AT HOME.

So yeah, corporate real estate is going to take a hit, and homes in the area will come down in price a bit, since there's no longer such a need to live right in that area.

A friend of ours just sold a 2 bedroom house right outside DC that needs A LOT of work for far more than it was worth.  We all LOL'd at what a poor investment that was.

FormlessOne: Seriously, huge bit of good news. Don't let it lull you into complacency. "Buying doses" isn't the same as "administering doses," and we've got a LONG way to go - right now, only about 6.5% of the population is actually vaccinated.

But, yeah, that's how you kick ass. You don't say "it is what it is," laugh at the sick & dying, and then lie to the faces of their loved ones trying to find out what you're doing to save them. You say "enough of this shiat - let's get to work," expedite solutions to clean up the former guy's fark-ups, and hope you can salvage the situation in short order.

Once again, I'm so glad that I don't live in a derp state, because as this has shown us, our lives depends on us living somewhere sane.

Where I am, everyone wears masks.  And the few that don't get yelled at.  Virginia's state government just took over rollout from the counties, and I actually trust them to do this efficiently.... well, more efficient than say, Iowa.

This is in great contrast to a place like Florida, or Kansas, or whatever other red state hell hole you can think of, where there aren't mask mandates/people wearing them anyway, and I'm sure the govs of those states will either sell the doses to the highest bidder, roll around in them a la Scrooge McDuck in his coin vault, or use them to fill water balloons and have a vaccine fight with each other (etc evil sh*t).