And all the tellers are wearing pink (very pink) scarves.
So I asked…”what is up with the pink scarves?”
“Breast cancer awareness” was the reply. “We are all doing our part”.
“Oh” I replied “me too”
“What are YOU doing for Breast cancer”?
“I’m offering free exams”. I replied holding up both hands.
Dude behind me passed an entire Starbucks Vente latte through his left nostril.
So a year or so ago, our Sears garage door opener died (after literally 40 years of service)….Since this is our primary means of entry and egress from the house (we seldom use the front door) we had to purchase a new one, and after a bit of research, we chose a Chamberlain opener that Home Depot had on sale. Battery backup (not that big of a deal, but hey, the price was right) and the ability to check on the status of the door and open or close it over the internet, using a smartfone (a bigger deal, as I tend to forget whether I closed the door or not and often turned around on the way to work to make sure).
We liked the feature, and used it often….then MC got a new phone and I found out that I had, foolishly, forgotten to write down the logon and password….and for some strange reason, the Chamberlain system failed to recognize my email in order to reset the password.
One call to the help desk was all it took. The woman there, using the caller ID feature, was able to identify me, and send me a new password via email….AND INSISTED THAT SHE STAY ON THE LINE WHILE I ENTERD IT and made sure that the new password worked…. Then called me today to make sure that I had had no issues entering the new password into MC’s new phone and that everything was working.
This is a lot better than I expected. I really expected to get “Peggy” from Indonesia with an accent that was hard to understand or Achmed from Pakistan or something…but I got a real American sounding person who was pleasant and easily understood….. Who followed up to make sure that I was happy and satisfied.
Now, I expect that this door opener will last a few years, but I also know that when I buy another one, I will certainly look at Chamberlain first.
At the polls.
Why do our court justices not see the fact that an ID is required to function in this society today….but accept the lie that the requirement of an ID to vote is somehow a burden?
No more “professional qualified immunity”.
Especially in cases like THIS. At last the courts are putting limits on behavior….
By the CDC:
Deputy who had contact with Dallas”Patient Zero” hospitalized with possible Ebola symptoms
Now, this is likely a false alarm. Then again, WHY WASN”T THE CDC paying attention to ANYONE who was in contact with patient zero–Mr Duncan (who, BTW, died earlier Wed AM). I mean, monitoring several times a day for fever and other symptoms….Why did he go to a “quick care” facility instead of a hospital? (And why, when he visited the partement of Duncan, wasn’t he given at least a mask and gloves?).
Again, this MIGHT (probably is) a false alarm. But again, this illustrates the casualness that the CDC and the Texas and Dallas Health departments are treating this.
(and BTW, despite the “best care in the world” Mr Duncan died….Think about that).
Seriously, if I were in the Dallas area, I’d be gettin worried about now. The whole handling of this entire incident seems like an opening storyline from a book like “The Stand” or a movie like “Outbreak“. (or How to Enable a Pandemic in 6 Easy Steps…)
But,as Tam points out, at this point the odds of you or I contracting Ebola are fairly small… But the more I learn about the response by the CDC (and others who SHOULD know better) the higher I think those chances get.
An excellent story. A page turner. I was hard pressed to put the copy I had down (I was a beta reader for him as he is my friend).
If you haven’t read Vingettes, then you need to read that first.
This is a continuation of the story….and one that ends badly for those who screw with the family and friends of John Cronin. The details are there, of both rifle shooting and pistol shooting. The character development is excellent, and, for a while, you live his story.
I’d hate to be his enemy…
Read ’em both. You won’t be disappointed.
I am waiting for volume 3…..
Think a good thought for my brother. He has to do the right thing for an friend of 17 years today…..
He’s hurtin’.
Thanks
Except that I have my priorities totally screwed up, and I did the adult thing and did pre-winter chores all weekend.
So total rounds downrange—zero.
I am feeling the lack.
So if the CDC (that is, the Centers for Disease Control) can totally drop the ball on a single case of open border foolishness ebola, then perhaps we need a shakeup of their management….and perhaps a redefinition of their primary responsibility….maybe they oughta stop telling us about our (un)healthy lifestyles global warming and such and concentrate on, you know, DISEASE…since they apparently have forgotten their primary mission….See, I am not much for government agencies, and think most of our Federal government should be disbanded….but the CDC might just be one of the agencies that have merit….if they’d do their job.
Their response was, well, let us be kind and say it was suboptimal. I’m not a doctor (although I have played one, but that is another post) and I can easily see that they basically fucked up by the numbers. Both the CDC and Dallas and Texas Health departments. Yeah, once they got rolling and the news media got to reporting it, the authorities began (or maybe it simply took that long to get rolling) to act, but their response wasn’t timely at all….Thing is, we don’t have the ability to deal with this disease if and when it gains a foothold here. Yes, we have great healthcare. I got that. But not for something like this. We have neither the people nor the facilities with which to deal with a major epidemic….
Which is why our borders are our only real protection, and why failing to properly screen or quarantine people entering from ebola affected areas is so important and must be fixed.
(part of me wonders how many cases there have been in European countries which we haven’t heard about? If one could get here, it is just as easy, actually easier, to get to Europe, as most routes go from Africa to Europe to the US….)
Seriously…if this case in Dallas does not demonstrate WHY we need better Customs and Border Controls, then nothing will.
This one case may well spread to others….It may be contained, it may not. We shall know more in another 20+ days…if it is contained, then we, as a nation, will be lucky. If not, well, we shall see how bad it gets. Patient Zero (Dallas) may well have infected others on his route from Liberia through Brussels through Dulles, and then to Dallas…..Lots of people who had contact with him when he may or may not have been contagious. And contact with the airplane and airport furniture after he had been there and maybe contaminated those surfaces…… and if he is dying and in critical condition on 10/1 then he was sick enough to be contagious on the 9/22.
And if we end up with 20 cases, or a hundred, WE REALLY DON’T HAVE THE FACILITIES TO DEAL WITH THAT MANY PATIENTS .
Maybe we were lucky this time. Maybe. But keeping such people out of our country is the only way to prevent a worse “Next time”.
Everything is fine……The government has said so…
There, don’t you feel better?
If you don’t have preps…facemasks, gloves, faceshields, something to cover your exterior and to sterilize surfaces and hands with, then you might want to perhaps plan, SOON, on finding some….’cause your government is doing dick-all to keep you safe. I’m not saying that the time to panic is here, but if there is a second or third patient with ebola, you won’t find anything to use at all.
This weekend, Home Depot and Menards in my area ran out of N-95 facemasks and tyvek suits….They are up 4000% at Amazon…(I already had a stock of both in my preps) …Some folks think that there will be a need…..
Let us hope they are wrong.