Mine does the same. It’s working pretty well.
My company’s typical setup involves leaving your work computer on, then logging into that computer remotely from another computer (either a work-issued laptop or a personal computer) using the VPN and Remote Desktop combination.
Everyone is so depressed about self isolation that they are depressing me as well 
Also, my university administration and professors here in Germany are idiots and I hate them so much because they don’t even introduce online courses. They also cancelled all the exams and won’t conduct something like online oral exam etc. so our graduation will be delayed like 7-8 months or 1 year or more.
^That sucks. I am a high school teacher and I feel really bad for our students that are missing out on so much right now. Not just academics, but all the extracurricular activities that they love, and things like senior prom and maybe a delayed graduation ceremony. A lot of our students don’t have the best home lives, and school has often been a more stable, safe place for them, during the day at least.
We just got word today that we will be out until at least April 17. We are doing online lessons, but we (teachers and administrators) are figuring all this out on the fly, and we’ve got a lot left to sort out.
I made up for it on the next purchase but I had to buy a lot of gas.
This would have been harder 30 years ago. But with the advent of cell phones and computers the lines of communication are considerably shorter. I suspect people are reaching out more to their friends and family because of it.
There was a news story Wednesday evening about teachers on the other side of town forming up a parade and driving through their district’s neighborhood waving and with signs of encouragement on their autos. Thursday afternoon we had the same thing happen in our neighborhood. Don’t know if they copied the previous day’s story or it just took them longer to pull the trigger but either way I hope it becomes a weekly happening.
You hope that people leave the safety of their homes to circulate in the public on a frequent basis? Do you have the slightest idea of how stupid and irresponsible that is?
I think you may have missed the part where they stay in their cars, not “circulate in the public.” Not stupid or irresponsible unless you’re worried that they’ll get into an auto accident.
I didn’t miss that part at all. A bunch of people driving around in cars, deliberately acting like a parade, will accumulate spectators; i.e., crowds. If they didn’t, why bother? To organize the event, the cars may gather in a parking lot. Will all windows be rolled up? No one will open a window to ask for instructions? No one is in each car but the driver? No one will ever get out? All participants are protected by an impenetrable bubble?
And what kind of message does this pseudo-parade convey? That’s it all right to leave home for a public purpose? Here’s how to willingly evade the stay-at-home mandate? This isn’t for a necessary purpose like getting food or medicine, but just a frivolous show. Frivolous shows right now are stupid, just stupid.
We’ve lost thousands of dollars in the market plunge, although we expect that will rebound. Our trip to Las Vegas next month has been scotched.
Raising morale in a time of crisis is never stupid. The methods chosen may be but if one has to string together a bunch of if, and then if, and then ifs to get there, it is not a stupid method.
Some of the elementary teachers in my district did the same thing last week! But since then our county has been put under a stay-at-home order, and our district administrators have told us specifically not to do any more car parades.
Glad to see wiser heads prevailed.
A car parade dove by my home yesterday. It was cheerful. There were multiple people in most cars, but I assume they were family groups. (It was mostly kids.) Yes, they looked out the windows, but the cars drove about 10-15 feet apart from each other (plus the length of each car), so it probably wasn’t very dangerous. I stood on the doorstep, a good 30 feet from them, and waved.
The only part that seemed ill-advised was that families from the cross-street gathered near the road, and each family group was barely 6 feet from each other family group. So I hope they are right about that 6 foot distance thing.
As for your first paragraph, I… have a thing called a cell phone with which I can communicate with people in a different car, and which I have even used before the pandemic to communicate with several different cars where we were all trying to stay together. No, no one need ever get out.
Your second paragraph has a point, though, although I agree with PoppaSan that raising morale is a sometimes-necessary purpose. I was imagining this was like 5 cars all going through one neighborhood, which would also have the advantage that people could just go on their own front steps to watch, but I am doubtless underestimating the human capacity for attempting to congregate. So I also see why one can argue that it’s not a good idea, though I would say that the reasons why are a little less simple than “just stupid.”
One of the families I know has a medically-fragile child who just celebrated a birthday, and one of our friends organized something a little like this – where people drove by this family’s house with signs in their car windows declaring “Happy birthday!” It wasn’t a parade (since it was just organized for people to do this on a particular hour on the birthday, with no other organization) and no one got out. Should we do this for everyone’s birthday? Probably not. But it was VERY appreciated by that family, which had been under a lot of stress even before all this happened.
Okay, I just heard a large chorus of “happy birthday” from my back yard neighbor’s house. It didn’t sound like they were using phones, and it sounded like more people than live there. And we have a lot of cases in town – at least 14 have been tested positive, we presumably have a lot more that weren’t tested.
I would like to call your attention to a short public comment made by Sister Bay and Door County (Wisconsin)'s Chairman, David Lienau, during a meeting last Tuesday, March 24. He wanted to point out how dangerous actions can be even though the intentions were honorable and seemingly, innocuous.
How stupid! Let teachers safely bring some joy to their students.
I bet this principals first job in education was being middle school hall monitor.
When the weather cleared people were out playing tennis and pickleball but guess what? The worry warts and troublemakers had to call the cops tattle telling on them that they were violating the orders of our dear leaders.
And like that - bang, we are in North Korea.