Ask HN: What has been your biggest learning from this Covid-19 situation?

To not trust my company.

I'm part of the team-leaders group, but sometimes the organizer keeps randomly removing or adding me to his meetings, based on the importance of the news to be shared.

It was really amplified during Covid-19 and WFH. Before that, working in a full-office setup, split in different buildings, you wouldn't have noticed this kind of stupid behaviour..or best said, you were aware of it, but in a smaller form.

The biggest lesson I learned is how dependent extroverted or party people are seemingly on outside action going on, events they can go to, friends with whom they can go anywhere, birthday parties they can celebrate and more. I would have thought, that people can get a hold of themselves and be reasonable, but no. I've heard of at least 2 people doing birthday parties, one of which was actually not legally allowed and the other allowed but unwise, because it was not family (contact limitations in Germany). People act as if they cannot possibly move that party to another date. Unimmaginable, that for once you would not celebrate a birthday.

Basically, in such a situation do not trust such people to act according to what's best for society, but in self-interest or unknowingly unwise or even egocentric. They seemingly cannot help themselves and their needs or instincts or lack of disciplin.

The other thing I learned maybe is, gow even in my own family after a few days, new agreed upon rules for hygiene water down and people go on like usual, increasing risk of transmission, if anyone in the household is infected.

With these things people quickly lose sight of the bigger picture, when thinking (or not thinking) about their own actions.

For me it's been seeing the clear skies.