Coronavirus:

[rogruth]

My grandparents, parents and aunts all lived in the manufacturing area, now the rust belt, during the Great Depression.
I heard a lot about it from them and remember the reopening of the steel mills and factories when WW II started and people went back to work.
My wife is from eastern Kentucky and never saw a difference. Her area was hardly affected at all. Some stuff became scarce. Where I live now
in southeast Georgia was like Kentucky apparently. I won't go into details but most of this area has never, at least since that war of northern
aggression as it is called here, had a really severe economic crisis and do not know what is coming. I was young but I do remember. Most don't
Recall that happening now. It started 91 years ago.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Well, I guess we can expect much more talented and musical employees at the McDonalds drive-thru window for awhile.

Sorry, I know that was very cynical and unfeeling,

Not really - we as a country lag far behind in STEM areas and continue to fall behind - we need better incentives created to encourage those areas to recover and grow.

but I do feel we have way too much emphasis on performing arts, music and sports these days.

I think we have way too much emphasis on politics and politicians particularly as if they actually know what they are doing, and can actually do anything to benefit anyone other than themselves. It should be a job akin to a punishment detail.

[rogruth]

Rufus,

I agree with the above but do not completely understand the last paragraph or what you mean for sure.
Help.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,

I agree with the above but do not completely understand the last paragraph or what you mean for sure.
Help.

Ah, politics should not be a rewarded occupation, nor even an occupation at all. It is supposed to service, so it should be something tolerated only out of necessity with only the barest of personal rewards, and then viewed as something akin to what people being punished are tasked to do until they have served the people adequately to earn having their sentence commuted where they can go back to doing something respectable.

[rogruth]

Rufus,

I agree with the above but do not completely understand the last paragraph or what you mean for sure.
Help.

Ah, politics should not be a rewarded occupation, nor even an occupation at all. It is supposed to service, so it should be something tolerated only out of necessity with only the barest of personal rewards, and then viewed as something akin to what people being punished are tasked to do until they have served the people adequately to earn having their sentence commuted where they can go back to doing something respectable.

OK. Makes sense. Now and then in small towns it may work that way.
Unfortunately I havent heard of anything that works better than what we have.
Some reforms might help but would be agreed upon.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Now and then in small towns it may work that way.

Maybe that needs to be expanded upon.

[chuck]

but I do feel we have way too much emphasis on performing arts, music and sports these days

Maybe. Even in STEM areas the emphasis for the last 5-7 years has been on how to make money off of whatever they were supposed to be doing. Not so much on how to do/make something as there is on how to monetize it. I understand that you need to be mindful of how and economic system works but the emphasis has shifted too heavily towards making money. In some cases they are being instructed on how to make money by not doing something. It seems that little value is being placed on actually making/inventing while far too much has been on merchandising/sales.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

........actually making/inventing.............

is hard.........

merchandising/sales.

is easier........

[robert.]

II have a customer that claims " He is going to sue me" On Monday he fly from Key west to north NJ. Where i was going to move in in. He house id finished and he wants his Merchandise. I wont do the job for him. Nj has a self quarantine of 14 days. for people traveling from Florida. I can't take my guys into that situation. It could be a real problem if they got sick. One has a pregnant wife and the other has a grandmother in the house. This customer is not happy with me. He paid in full back in November. Now he is claiming i'm trying to steal his stuff. He is very far from understanding.

He should have called you 1st and sent you the keys in advance to do the job. Photograph everything, send those to him, and tell him he can arrane for someone else to pick it all up and deliver it. Otherwise, suggest that he see the Wizard for a brain.....

once he got rid of his misplaced anger. We got things worked out. He went for a four day weekend down to the keys. While he was there NJ set up a quarantine of 14 days for all people returning from Florida.Not my doing.You never know what you'll catch on a 3 hour flight. I'll do the job without him in the house. He claims " that he will hangout in his pool house. I will also use a different crew. I wonder if his Otolaryngologist wife will see patients?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

II have a customer that claims " He is going to sue me" On Monday he fly from Key west to north NJ. Where i was going to move in in. He house id finished and he wants his Merchandise. I wont do the job for him. Nj has a self quarantine of 14 days. for people traveling from Florida. I can't take my guys into that situation. It could be a real problem if they got sick. One has a pregnant wife and the other has a grandmother in the house. This customer is not happy with me. He paid in full back in November. Now he is claiming i'm trying to steal his stuff. He is very far from understanding.

He should have called you 1st and sent you the keys in advance to do the job. Photograph everything, send those to him, and tell him he can arrane for someone else to pick it all up and deliver it. Otherwise, suggest that he see the Wizard for a brain.....

once he got rid of his misplaced anger. We got things worked out. He went for a four day weekend down to the keys. While he was there NJ set up a quarantine of 14 days for all people returning from Florida.Not my doing.You never know what you'll catch on a 3 hour flight. I'll do the job without him in the house. He claims " that he will hangout in his pool house. I will also use a different crew. I wonder if his Otolaryngologist wife will see patients?

I have never managed to avoid getting some sort of bug when I have flown anywhere.

Otolaryngologist - who knows? I went to my dentist appointment last Wed.

[robert.]

His wife should cancel all her appointments for 14 days. If she is open. She may still be closed in NJ. My dentist sent out an email. They will open up on july 6. Sign in online. No waiting in their waiting room. They have a New $37.00 charge (covid sanitizing) not covered by any insurance company yet. I like my dentist. That $37.00 charge is going to piss me off. I might stop bringing her and the receptionist flowers. On my first visit there i asked "how the were doing"? Both replied "horrible nobody likes to visit us".From the next visit on i brought both of them flowers. Almost going on 10 years now. Even dentists need a little love now and then.

[E7]

I went to my dentist appointment last Wed.

I just went recently myself.....kinda tricky keepin' the old mask on!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I went to my dentist appointment last Wed.

I just went recently myself.....kinda tricky keepin' the old mask on!

I went today at 10am. I was told to call the office when arrived in the parking lot and that they would then tell me or call me back shortly for admission into the office. It all worked out smoothly, getting that call-back at 10:15 instructing me to enter the building, although it was weird having him crawling around in my mouth, spelunking, as it were, which was the total opposite of "social distancing," huh.

The entire experience was so positive that I decided on the way home to stop at our Market Basket Grocery Store, in Franklin Lakes, which I hadn't been to in quite some time, and found them to be very smooth, with everybody, customers and crew, alike, wearing gloves and facemasks, which I had left on myself after the dentist's office work on me.

Altogether, it has been a positive adventure of a day esp. since I had only a vague idea of what to expect at the dentist as well as at the popular grocery store.

A peaceful day, indeed.

[rogruth]

I went to my dentist appointment last Wed.

I just went recently myself.....kinda tricky keepin' the old mask on!

I went today at 10am. I was told to call the office when arrived in the parking lot and that they would then tell me or call my back shortly for admission into the office. It all worked out smoothly, getting that call-back at 10:15 instructing me to enter the building, although it was weird having him crawling around in my mouth, spelunking, as it were, which was the total opposite of "social distancing," huh.

I'm OK with this method IF they are on time. If the appointment is for 10:00 they should be on time. I don't like waiting in a car or whatever anytime of the year. If you are late you pay extra and if they are late they reduce your costs by a similar amount. Doctors are worse about this than dentists, I think.
I'm referring to being late for appointments. Yeah I know. They must see many a day. There are ways to make it work.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I went today at 10am. I was told to call the office when arrived in the parking lot and that they would then tell me or call my back shortly for admission into the office. It all worked out smoothly, getting that call-back at 10:15 instructing me to enter the building...............

I'm OK with this method IF they are on time. If the appointment is for 10:00 they should be on time. I don't like waiting in a car or whatever anytime of the year.

My dental and my eye doc appointments were right on time; don't thinkt hat they are booked up anywhere near what they were before - lots of folks not going to any doc.........which will cause problems later.

As for social distancing at the dentist. Rinse out with a peroxide wash - seriously nasty. And the dentist and staff were fully gowned up, gloves and face shields and masks.