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Shoutout to everyone who keeps reading about the woes of home office, but has to work in hospitals, factories, warehouses, or drive a truck.

I enjoy my home office tremendously, but it's still kinda surreal to me how we can all sit at home with our laptops and that somehow keeps the economy going - as if our jobs hadn't been abstract and hyper-specialized already, now some people don't even leave their bed to work.

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And yet, the traffic where I live is beyond anything I’ve ever seen. So clearly we’re in the tiniest minority. Most people still have to drive to work, even during a pandemic.

Traffic in and out of the capital here has reached insane levels too, despite most people with compatible jobs getting a deal with only 2 or 3 days at the office since the crisis.

I know quite a few previously using public transportation 5 days a week now driving on "office" days, because they got scared of rush hour crowds.

That and/or the lower car costs no longer justify the savings of using public transportation.

Lower car costs?

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