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slq wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 10:32 pm Thanks for the insight LM K. I don't have to go to Bend, OR. The depositions have been cancelled. The deponents are filing bankruptcy before Wednesday. Good for my COVID risk, not good for my clients.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 1:44 am And to the person checking people in at the ER desk, PUT ON A FUCKING MASK! I am not lying.

I reported her to every single other person I came in contact with and it did no good. Small consolation but at one point she asked me to sign some papers at the desk and shoved a pen at me. I told her to put the pen down and step her maskless self back to the accepted social distance of 6'. She just stared at me until I told her the second time.

Fuck these people. Fuck all these people.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 1:38 am Oh yeah, what sort of low-rent fucking doctor's service uses a call-back number that is KNOWN TO GET STOPPED BY ANTI-SPAM? Who the hell does that? It took over 2 hours to get the initial call-back because my spam call blocker was catching it. The third time I called back the service just nonchalantly mentioned oh by the way, we use a 'private number' so your spam catcher might be blocking it.

Fuck you people!

LM K wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 6:03 pm

Patagoniagirl wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 3:57 pm My mother lives in a lovely independent/assisted facility run by the county. Most of the residents are vaccinated. Her apartment section has active, independent residents. Less than 45% of staff in the entire facility are vaccinated.

The few independent resident who are not vaccinated are allowed to mingle with the rest unmasked. They leave and visit family, go shopping, etc. Unmasked, unvaccinated.

I have seen facility employees at the grocery store, two who have made it abundantly clear they are not vaccinated, shopping and congregating without masks or socially distancing. The only Covid cases have been workers, no residents, but with the relaxed visitations and out-of-facility allowances, I dont want anyone exposed, let alone my mom.

With the Delta Delta variant surging, I am extremely upset, and my mother is panicked. I dont think either of us are unreasonable.

I am waiting on a call back from the Administrator. She is afraid also because she doesn't want to be kicked out for making trouble.

How the fuck can facilities be caring for compromised people like this and not have a gawddamned simple responsibility to be vaccinated and masked?!

Is contacting the county health department an option?

It sounds like the admin isn't happy with the state of things. What are her options?

Could daily or biweekly testing for staff be implemented? Or will staff scream about their "freedoms" and "HIPAA"?

Check out Bonafide Masks or Project 95 for authentic KN95 and N95 masks.

bill_g wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:52 am I was pleasantly surprised in Clatskanie OR this last week - the mask mandate is enforced!

Clatskanie is a working class town on US30 that parallels the Columbia River from Portland to Astoria. Trump Pence signs are still visible. Confederate flags fly on houses and pickup trucks. Broken smiles reveal dentistry is lacking. So, it's not hard to imagine the populous would ignore the governor's recently renewed mask mandate.

However, at the Conestoga Bar and Grill, the only watering hole around for miles, and the only place to get a meal after 7pm, is quite serious about it. Though it proudly announces it is biker friendly inside and out, the big dude at the door with hammers for hands will hand you a fresh blue mask if you forgot yours, and he'll remind you it ain't a chin strap. It stays on at all times except to sip your drink or to take a bite. It has to go back up while you chew or swallow. No exceptions. Even the patrons help enforce it.

I was quite amazed. I even saw a couple women escorted back to the door when they decided enough was enough, they had their rights, etc etc as they protested. The big guy silently pointed his finger at them, and then threw his thumb over his shoulder. They got up and left. Wow.

Bravo Clatskanie.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 12:28 pm Our great niece has developed a bright red Covid rash over most of her body. Going to take an oatmeal bath.

No breathing problems.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 12:38 pm ... I'm so worn down by all of this. I'm angry a lot of the time--not my usual state. I'm furious because it didn't have to be this way, and I pretty much blame it on one man, who doesn't need to be named, and his enablers and brainless followers.