Utah is overflowing at the hospitals.
From: Mike Meluskey
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 1:24 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WISPs & Covid at 8 months and counting
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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2020 12:17 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
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
<[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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