[Leica] Nathan's PAD 21/1/2021: back to the office

[Douglas Barry]

Nathan, nice shot of your colleagues. It won't be hard - hopefully  - to 
date that pic in the future. As for the other one, I cannot blame your 
colleagues and really, does anyone know anything precisely about the 
dangers of this plague?

This morning, on the radio, I heard an "eminent" medico stating that one 
can catch the virus by touching infected surfaces. That was a relief as 
since I still wipe down everything down with alcohol wipes when it is 
delivered. This chimes with research I did in relation to a planning 
dispute I'm involved in - sewage in seawater, etc. It seems this thing 
persists much longer on cold surfaces and in cold conditions - 99 days 
in water at 4 c, and they stopped measuring at that point. Are they 
right, at this stage of the evolution of the virus? No one really knows. 
So, as they say over here, feck this for a game of cowboys, I'm not 
taking any chances.

My own suspicions as to why I picked up this damn thing, is I used to 
go, on my walk, through a commonly used, spring loaded gate, and 
remember, one evening, rubbing my eye shortly  after opening it. Was 
that the reason? Who knows? I wore a mask long before it was popular or 
compulsory, but it still didn't save me. Anyway, tomorrow, I'm attending 
a consultant of infectious diseases to pour my heart out about my "long" 
CoVid and the many ways it can waylay you. Maybe he has something that 
can help, we'll see.

Douglas

On 24/01/2021 07:51, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> On Thursday, I returned to the office, precisely 2 weeks after my positive Covid test, now symptom-free (except for loss of taste and smell which can persist for months). When I arrived at my office, this is how I found it:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-xJSpzhv/A
> It all my papers and books had been covered (I do not believe in clean desk policies), all the knicknacks I keep on the windowsill had been put in bags, and the whole place had been disinfected. Frankly, I found it a bit over the top, since the virus spreads through air and my colleagues are not in the habit of coming into my office to lick the walls, but OK, those are the protocols that we follow.
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> But there was a more pleasant aspect to being back:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rkVr8Kr/A
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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