But these articles always feel far-removed and alien to me, because neither myself nor anyone I know does office work. We all do machining. The constant assumptions that the country runs on office work feels like a fantasy of white collar urbanites, and their complaints over office politics feel like the hystrionics of a rich woman who can't see outside her sphere.

For the past two years I've felt like there are only dozens of us who actually had to get up and go to work consistently during the whole entire thing. I feel totally out of the loop and this as retarded a question as it gets but seriously, did people really "quarantine" and stay home for weeks/months at a time working remotely and never even have to leave their house? Or is this one of those things where when I go online I'm entering the world of "knowledge workers" where most of them do things capable of remote work and living that lifestyle?