Below, I have imagined a day in my life when I have to return to the office during Covid-19. Today is my “Office Day”. I physically go to the office 2 days a week and work from home the other 3 days. That way only 40% of the workplaces are occupied in downtown. My designated arrival time window for my office building is between 9am and 9:30am so I leave home at 7:30am (used to take me 30-40 minutes to get to work pre-Covid). I drive to downtown (no one takes public transit anymore) and traffic is nuts, as always. The roads are not designed for so many cars driving…

Covid-19 has turned our lives topsy-turvy. In Calgary, schools have been closed and we have been working from home since March 16, 2020. Today (April 21, 2020) is week 6 of this craziness, which is quickly becoming the new normal. Work is done in the home office, meetings via MS Teams, classroom via Google Meet and drinks/coffee with friends via Zoom. When we go back to the “old ways”, what will change and what will remain the same? It is a fun game to guess and make predictions (everyone is doing it), so here are my predictions: People who are sick (cold/flu etc.) won’t go into the office wearing it…

What happened to the world? Did the bottom fall out? The words that are being used to describe the current situation are “unprecedented”, “pandemic”, “crisis”, and “extraordinary”. We now have new words in our everyday vocabulary such as social distancing, self-isolation, self-quarantine, N-95 masks, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Contact tracing, Community spread, super-spreader, asymptomatic, pandemic, epicenter, flattening the curve, presumptive cases, herd immunity, virtual drinks, and MS Teams/Zoom/Slack meetings. Three things happened all around the same time: Coronavirus Covid-19 hit the world First detected in China in Wuhan, Hubei in December 2019 Virus spread to South Korea, Japan and Iran in early 2020 Spread to Europe with Italy being the worst hit…