As I will soon be working from home too this is a worry. It impacts Norm’s ability to work from home. The alarm cannot be put on without electricity. It often happens at night when we need to prepare dinner, or later when we have finished dinner and want to relax in front of the telly. It impacts everything from cooking, to sleeping to our security. Our phone service also goes down as the constant lack of electricity affects the cell tower’s ability to recharge the batteries. Some days we have had 6 hours a day with no electricity. To add to the stress in our daily lives, electricity load shedding started back on Tuesday when Eskom announced yet another drama. The biggest challenge will be whether we have electricity! As long as I can access the client’s database then I can work remotely with minimal impact. This means we log into a virtual network as if we are actually working via our computer that is based in the office. Essentially, the ultimate goal of a VPN is to keep your private information private. As the name implies, it provides users with a virtual network that is private so that they can connect to the internet in a way that is safe and secure. In case you aren’t familiar, VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. In preparation we have applied for VPN access. My consulting house has requested we work from home assuming that the client will approve this decision. The hotel he booked his accommodation with was 100% the opposite, they dealt with his attempts to contact them in a prompt manner and gave him a 100% credit. He has spent over 3 hours on the phone with their call centre and each time, after an hour the service drops the call. Norm has had endless issues with Expedia and trying to cancel his flight. Our family has been directly affected as Norm was due to fly to Nairobi Kenya today and he received notification that his flight was cancelled as the Ministry of Health for the home country of the company he was doing the work for had declared a ban on overseas travel. WHO has now officially declared Covid-19 a pandemic. He also contracted it while traveling overseas and luckily he did not come into the office when he returned from his trip. One of these affected people is an employee at the same office where I am currently based. We seem to be averaging about 14 new cases per day. This was an increase of 13 additional cases from a report I had read the previous day and an increase from the day before that. At the time of writing this, South Africa was reporting 51 cases, and all of those infected people had traveled overseas. The entire planet seems to be in a panic about the risk of contracting Covid-19.
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