I've seen people commenting on working from home, how hard it's been and isolation etc. My perspective is a bit different and I think it comes down to where you start from...

I've been working from home on and off ever since my son got cancer (he's fine now). For about a year before covid struck I was working from home as my son couldn't attend school due to treatment related loss of mobility.

I remember calling someone about a potential new post at work. "I work from home a lot at the moment" I said "is that ok?". The answer was not really, we expect the post holder to be present in the office.

Fast forward a couple of months from that conversation and suddenly we were all working from home. Whoever did take that job ended up working from home a lot more than I was planning to.

Meanwhile my son's school is providing all kinds of remote learning opportunities. Opportunities that he didn't have when it was just him at home and not all of his classmates.

It seems all the shit disabled people were putting up with for years in terms of poor access to education and work could have been dealt with. It just wasn't a priority.

So covid hits and suddenly the playing field gets levelled. All those meetings I used to dial in to where I could barely hear half of the room? A think of the past. We all dial in to meetings now.

Any job I want I can apply for, working from home is the new normal now.

I'm no longer enviously looking at people's Facebook posts of their lovely holidays and weekend trips, stuff it was hard for us to do. Now we are all grounded, all isolating. We're all in it together.

I just hope that when thing get back to normal, there is more solidarity for people who have always struggled to do the normal stuff because of disability or whatever else.

I hope when we return to normal we do it in a way that takes everyone with us. Going back to fun times for the majority but continued social isolation for a minority would be a to miss an opportunity for shared understanding and solidarity.

Anyway, that's the rant done. Typos galore. Maybe twitter needs an edit button.