Father-in-Law is an MD in the Lubbock, TX area. Their hospitals are
full.
On 26 Oct 2020, at 15:20, Matt Hoppes wrote:
Hold on. Reading your email I am getting conflicting information. You
said that this seems like it’s a joke but then also that you’ve
moved everyone who can remote.
I disagree we have hospitals that are being overwhelmed right now look
at El Paso. This is not going away after the election.
On Oct 26, 2020, at 2:57 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Its almost like nobody listened to the science, they clearly said
that the natural progression of any novel virus is 3 annual seasons,
with this one in particular being predominately in fall. this is
season 2. We have treatments now that are effective, we quit killing
people with ventilators the way were were in the beginning,
healthcare isnt overwhelmed and theres no shortage of PPE. We only
have 8 days until reporting on this changes to be less terrifying.
Healthy people are being exposed, beating it, and innoculated, 3
months permanent, no one knows if this is different thatn 99 percent
of other viruses. but of the well over 30 million people who were
verified positive via testing and have since recovered, less than 20
globally have been reinfected, so odds are the vast majority are
immune.
Knowing what we know now, we have permanently moved all positions
that can be remote to remote. techs dont go any further than the
garage if they dont have to. Its techs choice to mask up and glove
up, and as long as they choose to mask up and glove up, it will
continue to be there choice. This is only applicable to interiors,
theyre not required to mask outside, thats simply ignorant to require
and its not "following the science" . ut the tech can choose to do
that if they want. hell, if they want to wear a condom all day, its
none of our concern.
Our state positivity numbers are a joke, they simply base it on the
percentage of total tests that are positive, its gotten colder, so
people arent getting tested on a whim and we are back to primarily
people with risk factors getting tested, the positivity rate went up
as would be expected, but not as high as anticipated.
If legitimate numbers start going up like hospitalizations (luckily I
have ins in healthcare so i dont have to rely on media reports and
politically charged public health departments, i am privy to internal
census reports in healthcare) then we will look toward lower contact
solutions, and no contact if our coverage area sees a legitimate
surge.
We dont do stupid stuff, like my contractor who was infected, we
cancelled him for his quarantine period. We dont have in person
company meetings. When we are together on project work we dont ride
in the same vehicle, we just dont take any unnecessary risk, but we
also dont let risk avoidance unnecessarily impact operations.
I quit worrying about exposures with the wife working in a hospital,
we are exposed constantly. (the low incidence of healthcare
transmission is an oddity that after the politics of this thing are
over I hope they do some deep diving into, its either going to boil
down to we still dont actually know how its primarily transmitting or
healthcare has such a high incidence of low viral load exposures that
theyr innoculated without actually catching it, similar to how some
allergies can be beaten through very low dose exposures to the
allergen, will be interesting research when the politics of it are
over)
Every single "look at this country, look at that country" has turned
out to be wrong on both sides of the argument, even WHO says
lockdowns are the wrong solution now.
Im still waiting for the fed money that went out to put a bunch of
people in prison, even in this industry there will probably be some
prison sentences handed out, the money came with requirements, it
wasnt just free cash to grow a company.
I can tell you there is something going around thats causing chest
xrays to look exactly like covid damage, but no testing method is
identifying the presence of covid or history of its presence, thats
concerning, keep that in mind when relaxing policies. Its flu season,
and given the disruption of interaction, this years flu vaccine is
not going to very effective, its worth keeping covid policies in
place regardless to not have staff out with a wild flu.
And remember, the media frenzy is only just beginning its 8 days of
hell,
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 3:40 PM Jaime Solorza
<losguyswirel...@gmail.com> wrote:
We are so bad we were featured on ABC News.... people just want to
fucking party...
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 1:25 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
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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