Building code in this locality requires a toilet in any work place.  Like an unmanned storage building doesn't need a bathroom, but if you added a workshop suddenly you did.  Not sure how to square that with the current situation.  If you gave me a "no restroom use" rule I'd probably go pee behind the building and hold #2 until I get home, but if everybody else did that then maybe that's the same as having a bathroom.  Maybe everybody can mark their own pee spot out back. 6 feet apart from each other of course :)


On 4/13/2020 2:01 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
So got an update
Anybody curious, this is for Illinois.
IDPH hotline 18008893931
option 4 I was in contact with a positive case but have no symptoms
Continue normal activity if contact was not within 6 feet for more than a few minutes

If there are no symptoms and there was not contact within 6 feet for more than a few minutes an employer CANNOT facilitate an asymptomatic test


The followup on the customer, Im not so mad now. He works in a office where a lady tested positive, close proximity. So he was an asymptomatic precautionary test, he met the criteria because he was within 6 feet for more than a few minutes. This place had another positive last week supposedly. thankfully they are closed for sanitation. We will be avoiding people that work there.

Given the issue, we are closing all our communal areas, no coffee pot, not fridge, no restroom use. Primary installer will operate out of the garage and only use the garage door, he wont enter the work area. hes set up for remote now and will be on call when hes not actively on jobs. We would send the work truck home but he doesnt have a garage and we are already seeing an increase in vehicular burglary. Owner will stay remote. Other tech will be remote with his van in his garage. There is a large workbench in the garage where inventory will be available for resupply. It will be lysol stocked at night.

Im a dirty bastard so ill be using the primary workspace to do builds and all that. if im not building or hanging, ill be home.

I will have techs meet me on build sites as required. We will have as minimal contact as is realistic. If its just 911 guy for tower work, they wont leave the vehicle. We will go back to me humping stuff up grain legs and towers for a while if its reasonable weight.

Thank god we dont have to shut stuff down for 2 weeks every time some pauper approaches us. Techs were given clear instruction that if the customer comes outside, they are to get back in the work truck and if customer wont stop approaching, just to leave the site, we will recover equipment later



On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:39 PM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:

    You can pick your friends.
    And you can pick your nose.
    But you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

    Sent from my iPhone

    On Apr 12, 2020, at 8:07 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
    <mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:

    

    Up your nose with a rubber hose.

    -Vinny Barbarino

    *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com
    <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
    *Sent:* Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:43 PM
    *To:* af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>
    *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID

    Doesn't matter what you touch as long as you wash your hands
    after any potential contact. You could stick your finger up an
    infected person's nose, and as long as you washed your hands, you
    are cool.

    I am not advocating that (just in case someone misinterprets what
    I'm saying).

    bp
    <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
    On 4/12/2020 2:56 PM, Robert wrote:

        Depends upon what he touched on the outside.  Anything the
        customer may have sneezed/coughed/touched spit even took a
        deep heavy breath on could have enough of this nasty if he
        didn't immediately sanitize after touching and getting back
        into his vehicle and spreading it around.  Touch his face
        with an infected hand/glove and he's on the merry-go-round.. 
        Touch his truck and someone else touches it..  Less likely
        but possible.   3-7 DAYS on metal surfaces is really bad if
        not sanitized.   Door bells are a bad thing..  Gates are a
        bad thing..

        On 4/12/20 2:15 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

            If Steve’s tech really never went inside and came no
            closer than 10 feet to anyone, do you think the tech
            should still quarantine for 14 days?

            *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com>
            <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Sean Heskett
            *Sent:* Sunday, April 12, 2020 4:04 PM
            *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
            <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>
            *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID

            This is exactly why our company stopped all in person
            customer interactions on March 16th.

            Customers lie or don’t know they even have it, then your
            tech gets infected along with their whole family, then
            the rest of your crew.

            NO ONE SHOULD BE GOING INTO ANYONE ELSES HOUSE FOR A
            COUPLE MONTHS.

            We are only doing service calls if we can fix it from the
            outside.  Internet is not worth someone  dying over!

            -Sean

            On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 2:17 PM Steve Jones
            <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com
            <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote:

                Im so pissed right now. Tech had a No Line Of Site
                wednesday. apparently customer got tested on,
                positive result today. My guess would be he was
                symptomatic wednesday if it was bad enough for a test
                the next day. I fin out he was already on quarantine
                wednesday, im going to probably lose my stuff. He
                answered negative to the questionnaire. The tech has
                been anal about this since day one. We went no touch
                last monday officially. he had no contact closer than
                10 feet. Never went inside. sanitizes constantly. But
                we have no choice but to go down a tech for 14 day
                quarantine. We are closed tomorrow for a
                video-conference to regroup. Tuesday we will probably
                be sanitizing everything.

                there is little to no chance the tech caught it. he
                is writing down arrival to exit to help him
                remember if there is any chance of contamination.

                We have to try to get the health department to give
                us clear guidance on company operations over the next
                2 weeks.

                If this guy lied on the questionnaire ...... Ill
                probably end up in jail. We have too much going on to
                be a man down, much less a whole company down. If he
                got my installer sick, and lied on the questionnaire,
                kunkgflu will not be his primary concern anymore

                On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 2:18 PM Bill Prince
                <part15...@gmail.com <mailto:part15...@gmail.com>> wrote:

                    You can get around the paywall using the Brave
                    browser.

                    bp

                    <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>

                    On 4/12/2020 11:52 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

                        Interesting long article in today’s New York
                        Times Sunday magazine on the case of James
                        Cai, a physician’s assistant and the first
                        coronavirus case in New Jersey.

                        Yeah, yeah, yeah, NYT, biased liberal elite
                        east coast mainstream media fake news … get
                        over it, this article is not political.  I am
                        however reading the print version and while I
                        Googled for a link to the online version it
                        might be behind a paywall, or maybe they will
                        let you read a limited number of articles
                        free, I don’t know.

                        
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/magazine/first-coronavirus-patient-new-jersey.html

                        The story leaves you both hopeful and
                        pessimistic.  He got some treatments other
                        than what the hospital wanted to use, but
                        only through extensive intervention from
                        doctor friends and people who read about him
                        online.  He did recover.  Some of the
                        nonstandard treatments may have worked.  But
                        you or I probably wouldn’t have gotten them. 
                        You realize how difficult it is to get
                        something like remdesivir given the approvals
                        needed. And the push to intubate rather than
                        have you breathe the virus on hospital staff,
                        even if it’s maybe not the best treatment. 
                        And how doctors and hospitals were slow to
                        realize this disease was different.

                        *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com>
                        <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf
                        Of *Steve Jones
                        *Sent:* Saturday, April 11, 2020 10:43 PM
                        *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
                        <af@af.afmug.com> <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>
                        *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID

                        Because the fda doesnt approve without the
                        trials, to avoid the liability. It's only
                        approved off label use, hence, zero liability

                        On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 10:12 PM Robert
                        <i...@avantwireless.com
                        <mailto:i...@avantwireless.com>> wrote:

                            There is an actual mechanism for the FDA
                            to avoid the liability, it's baked into
                            the system now. It's how the friends got
                            the treatment approved for their daughters.

                            On 4/11/20 4:10 PM, Steve Jones wrote:

                                The FDA cant take the liability of
                                "approving" anything without full
                                trials. I dont blame them.

                                We let everyone sue everyone, we did
                                it to ourselves.

                                Same reason Fauci uses code words to
                                say the malaria drug works without
                                saying it works or setting cnn off by
                                agreeing with potus.

                                On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 3:27 PM Robert
                                <i...@avantwireless.com
                                <mailto:i...@avantwireless.com>> wrote:

                                    I can't believe I am still
                                    hearing about "trials" on the
                                    pre-existing
                                    ebola treatment. Doctors are
                                    talking about 2/3's of test patients
                                    recovering after 2-3 days after
                                    administration. Seems like that
                                    would be
                                    a good enough "trial" to start
                                    massively treating patients
                                    instead of
                                    20% survival.. What the heck is
                                    the real story?   I know someone
                                    personally who fought the FDC to
                                    get a treatment that extended their
                                    daughters lives for 5 years and
                                    it was a nightmare.   The conspiracy
                                    part of me wants to scream...

                                    On 4/11/20 12:50 PM, Ken Hohhof
                                    wrote:
                                    > Yeah, I am starting to get
                                    annoyed at the obsession with
                                    having enough ventilators,
                                    describing them as "life saving
                                    equipment", leaving the
                                    impression that most can be saved
                                    if you can just put them on a
                                    ventilator. Yet stats out of NYC
                                    are 80% don't survive to come off
                                    the ventilator.  And you have to
                                    wonder if the 20% who do, did the
                                    vent actually save them, or they
                                    would have survived even with
                                    less aggressive treatment.
                                    >
                                    > The news coverage leaves you
                                    thinking most of the ICU patients
                                    will be saved if there's enough
                                    ventilators. When in reality
                                    doctors and nurses are risking
                                    their own lives to treat ICU
                                    wards full of intubated, sedated
                                    patients most of whom will die
                                    because they don't have an
                                    effective treatment.  Not a
                                    pretty story, probably why nobody
                                    wants to talk about it.
                                    >
                                    > There are trials of various
                                    treatments going on, it would be
                                    great if some of them turned out
                                    to work.  Not necessarily a cure
                                    or a vaccine, but a therapy so
                                    less people die.
                                    >
                                    >
                                    > -----Original Message-----
                                    > From: AF
                                    <af-boun...@af.afmug.com
                                    <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>>
                                    On Behalf Of Bill Prince
                                    > Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020
                                    1:57 PM
                                    > To: AFMUG <af@af.afmug.com
                                    <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
                                    > Subject: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID
                                    >
                                    >
                                    > Saw this in our local paper
                                    this morning. It's interesting to
                                    me because it's bringing to light
                                    the fact that COVID-19 is
                                    apparently not what people are
                                    dying from, it's the secondary
                                    ARDS-like (Accute Respiratory
                                    Distress Syndrome) condition.
                                    There is also some debate within
                                    the medical community whether
                                    ventilators are helping or
                                    hurting. Maybe what they need to
                                    do is just supply oxygen.
                                    >
                                    > If this link doesn't work for
                                    you, I can email the article.
                                    >
                                    >
                                    
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/11/when-coronavirus-kills-its-like-death-by-drowning-and-doctors-disagree-on-best-treatment/
                                    >
                                    >


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