Well at least everywhere I go now everyone is masked up and mostly spread out.
I was surprised at a rally I was at today. Our new Gov (he is a shoe in)
recognized me with my mask on. That was a nice spot in my morning.
From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2020 1:24 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WISPs & Covid at 8 months and counting
Numbers here in Illinois are bad again today, all we can say is “at least we’re
not Wisconsin”.
I no longer roll my eyes at my daughter choosing to live in Maine, where
“social distancing” was already the norm. (bike photo was actually from a ride
a month ago up to the Quebec border)
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2020 12:17 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WISPs & Covid at 8 months and counting
On Thursday our techs had to stop wiring up panel and stuff because two
electricians would wear masks...I wasn't there , I would have made them step
outside ...our boss complained to water utilities because we are on a schedule
with several people.
The control room is small.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 10:19 AM Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>
wrote:
We are doing normal installs for now. Watching our local county info in
internal tracking systems I developed.
So far we’re staying fairly isolated. If things severely spike this winter we
will shut down installs again.
At this point we are not masking nor requiring customers to wear masks - but
we do ask customers to stay 10feet away from techs. This point will be driven
home even more as we go into the winter months.
On Oct 24, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
So 8 months in, numbers are getting worse not better, and despite what
anybody says the end is not just around the corner.
I remember at the beginning some WISPs were not sending techs inside
customer homes, maybe pushing a cable through the wall and having the customer
plug in the POE and router. Is anybody still declining to do inside work?
Installs, repairs?
Also, what about the FCC requested “pledge” not to disconnect customers for
nonpayment during the pandemic. How many are still doing that, and assuming
things won’t be back to “normal” until well into 2021 or even 2022, how long do
you plan to continue? Are you taking any additional steps, like downgrading
their speed or declining to do upgrades, or requiring proof of hardship? I
know this wasn’t mandatory, but if we did it voluntarily, should there be a
time limit? And if at that point they are 6-12 months behind, do we write that
off rather than expecting they will catch up?
It’s also interesting I see on cable company forums issues about mask
refusal, both by techs and customers, and even of customers who have Covid but
still want their Internet fixed. I hesitate to bring this up because it has
become a political or “freedom” issue in a way that seatbelts or smoking or
wearing a yellow vest at a grain elevator or even picking up after your dog
isn’t, and I’m tired of being caught in the middle. But take the extreme case
of a customer who recently tested positive or the tech gets there and strongly
suspects someone in the house is contagious, is this really happening, and what
is your response? At the beginning I would ask when setting up every
appointment, has anyone in the house tested positive, but I’ve come to believe
that’s pointless.
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