“We’re in my childhood home now, living with my parents and my brother, and we have six chickens,” Reid says. It’s been manageable, but a far cry from his D.C. office life. The currency of Washington is political capital, and the pandemic has caused people to spend more of it than they can earn. On a rare trip into Washington earlier this month, he got a taste of the serendipity of being actually, physically on the scene. “He thought he was turning his microphone on, and he turned his video on.”It also normalizes having a life outside of work.

Source: Washington Post August 19, 2020 11:06 UTC