Working from Home and Coronavirus aka COVID-19

March 16, 2020 Roger Lacroix

It is funny that everyone is freaking out about working from home. I always found I got less done at the office than at home because I was always being interrupted every 2 minutes.

For most of my career, I have worked part-time at home. In 2001, I incorporated Capitalware and went out on my own. I liked how I could set my own rules on how much work I did from home. In 2007, I stopped all consulting work and gave it 110% to creating and supporting my own (Capitalware) software.

I had a desk and chair but the desk was really a 6 foot (2 meter) banquet table and the chair was very basic item. I ended up getting carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrist (it was really in right wrist) – in 2007 I believe. I found a good doctor who gave me a set of wrist exercises and a brace but the big thing he wanted me to do was get a proper desk and chair and set my arm alignment to the keyboard, so that the pressure would be removed from nerves. So, I went out and purchased a really nice mahogany desk and a proper multi-adjustable chair. It took about a year for the carpal tunnel to clear up and it is something I NEVER EVER want to go through again.

So, my advice to everyone working from home is get yourself a proper desk and chair to do your work at!!! Take it from someone who’s been there, done that.

The other comment I hear people make is about being bored or lonely at home. I play music while I work. I also have a TV tuner (USB) plugged into my PC, so when there is a business show I want to listen to, I put it on and put the display in the background. I would strongly suggest that people not play games or watch movies because you will never get any work done. 🙂

Many of you have met my wife, Cynthia, at the MQ Technical Conferences. She is a pharmacist. I had a heart attack back in 2010. So, she has been doing a lot of research about coronavirus aka COVID-19.

    Here’s what she has found out:

  • there is a strong link between people with cardiac diseases, hypertension, diabetes and COVID-19
  • there is a strong link between people with vitamin D deficiency (northern people) and COVID-19

So, the cardiac diseases, hypertension and diabetes link explains why it appears to affect older people because young people tend not to have these issues.

Basically, if you are on those drugs then you have 3 to 5 times more receptors, hence, a greater probably of getting COVID-19 and with more receptors means more attachment of the virus. i.e. It is like comparing cheap glue with Krazy or Gorilla glue. You don’t want to have COVID-19 make a strong bond to you!! Hence, if you don’t know what medicine you are taking ask your doctor or pharmacist. I just happen to be lucky that my wife is a pharmacist.

The funny part was when Cynthia read the articles about vitamin D deficiency, she ran upstairs grab a bottle of vitamin D pills and then handed me 1 and said I need to take 1 vitamin D pill every day. Now luckily, I am off all of the drugs I was on after my heart attack except for a statin drug and baby aspirin.

Finally, I wish the “experts” (BNN, Bloomberg, CNBC & Fox Business) would stop comparing coronavirus aka COVID-19 to the 2008 Financial Crisis – it is NOTHING like it. If you need to compare it to something then compare coronavirus aka COVID-19 to dust bowl from the Great Depression – that is a proper comparison!!!!

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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