The party buses are often shut down here.
The party buses are often shut down here.
A customer called in complaining staff were not wearing masks yesterday and someone did a curbside delivery for him. Now we will see if we get another Board of Health complaint. He said he was not comfortable coming in because he is 72. I wondered why he doesn't retire if he is that concerned.
What makes you think he's not retired?Originally Posted by Yppej
And even so, what makes you think a 72 year old should be retired just because he's cautious about his health when shopping at big box stores? What does one thing have to do with the other? Just curious.
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Actually I get where she’s coming from. I personally know people who are over 70 and were still working. They were freaking about going into work (and other public places) so much and they finally retired.
I do not work at a big box store. I work at a wholesaler for contractors, who are going into people's homes or businesses, and often have employees. We are by no means the only source of their risk. One guy comes in pushing a walker, is elderly, overweight, and looks like he's on death's doorstep. Even if you believe masks work against droplets, they don't stop fine particles. You can't take it with you, is it worth dying for money?
Got it. Maybe I'm just sensitive, being 68 and still working and don't want to feel I don't have a right to. But I am lucky enough to be able to work from home and do telephone interview and/or write reports. No one has asked me to travel for business this year.
But I do go to stores on occasion, wearing my mask and keeping my distance, and my days of "window shopping" are over. I only go when I'm on a mission.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
www.silententry.wordpress.com
We deliver to the jobsite at no extra charge and have curbside delivery. No one has to come into the store. That being said employees should be following the law so we don't get shut down.
There are big protests in Europe now against masks and a "health dictatorship". Americans who dare to challenge the status quo are not alone.
There have been discussions lately in the media about the folly of "herd immunity," and how that is basically just eugenics, because if we have a free for all, all the immuno-compromised, old, sick, and people with the bad luck to have some other unrecognized co-factor will just die off. The concept of herd immunity is also puzzling to me because there's no indication the limited immunity immediately following infection lasts more than a few weeks or months. Sweden is a great example of how not to handle a pandemic, having much worse morbidity and mortality statistics than comparable countries. I guess mass infection is the new "plan" emanating from the great scientific minds at the White House. Thank heavens for eBooks and grocery delivery; I'm good.
And now we learn that mask wearing also benefits the wearer. Multiple studies have found that being infected with a smaller amount of virus can lead to a less severe case of covid. And that a cloth mask does a good job of stopping at least some of the virus from getting inhaled.
https://youtu.be/DANEqOPcDwc
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