My company asked me/us again whether we would llike to work from home or to go the office.

Of course I chosed to work from home. It is so much more convenient and can save me from commuting time of more than 3 hours a day. I can work very OK at home, at least so far there is no significant sign of stress/melancholia. I spend less on train tickets and much less on foods for lunch. And most of all, I am safer from the virus.

However just a bit deeper thought shows that life is that easy. Restaurants in Birmingham, where I used to go to work, all close now. BBC shows city center of Manchester without any one. No restaurant, no barber shop, no shopping. So who will pay the taxes and keep the economy running? And  no train services, very few cars on the road. So who will need to build any train lines, any development of infrastructures?

And if there is no more need for those, who will need me/us to build or design anything?

To some extent I think leaders like Trump or Boris Johnson are not stupid. They need to rush people to work because they know that without working, we can die even more quickly.

Please be nice to opossums if you find them in your barns, garages or sheds. They are North America's only marsupial (pouched mammal) and they are ill-equipped for the snow. They have no fur on their feet, ears or tail, so are very susceptible to frost bite. Often when opossums are seen, they are ravaged by frostbite, so they are missing toes, missing part of their tails, and their ears are crumpled.

They are beautiful, gentle animals and one of the few mammals that rarely, if ever, get rabies. Why? Because they have a normal body temperature that is below most other mammals. The rabies virus can't survive at this lower body temperature. A healthy opossum's normal reaction to the presence of a human is to stay still, open its mouth and drool. This is a normal reaction! Many people think these are symptoms of rabies in an opossum and that is not true! Opossums are not athletes. They can't run fast, jump well or climb well, so their only defense is to be very still, and show you all 50 of their teeth and pray that you just go away. Opossums are omnivores and help us by consuming ticks and tick eggs. They are also the "clean up crew" of our roads, eating roadkill, but in the process, often becoming roadkill themselves. They are often drawn to areas where outdoor pets, such as cats are fed, as they eat cat food, dog food, and even birdseed. Often, opossums take shelter under sheds and decks or in feral cat shelters which are usually small boxes filled with hay.

Please, be kind to opossums!

Source: FB page Green Rocks Rescue Inc