I was verklempt this morning y’all. Called into a large group teleconference and a co-worker who had been MIA for some weeks now was on the line. Very glad to hear his voice. I had asked after him before today but was told nunya (as in none of your business). I get that y’all, Truly I do. But when the person involved tells about himself, there is no violation of HIPPA.
First person I know in real as opposed to fake life who made it to the other side of COVID. No longer abstract or celebrities I don’t know. His PSA came through loud and clear to those of us on the call … STAY AT HOME. We are a financial institution which is technically an essential business but my employer moved almost all 30K of us home. We can work virtually and even continue customer interaction through the modern miracle of technology. Some on the call have loved ones who are in essential business without this option and we respect that all situations are not the same.
My co-worker hails from upstate New York. New York itself is a hot spot #1 I believe. His area isn’t as bad as Manhattan but still more cases than other places. Another co-worker on the call who works from home in New Jersey said all their grocery stores are full of cars with NY plates making New Jersey #2. Both confirmed lots of folks are still ignoring the orders. Both told us to continue to beat the drums on their PSA of STAY AT HOME. When you can of course. Hats off to those on the front lines. Words are not enough but I will say it any way. I offer you my sincerest, deepest gratitude. ❤
As always, more to come.
J-Dub's Grin and Bear It 
They were talking about having all the telephone triage nurses work from home but the union nixed it. The nurses would be expected to use their own personal phones to do it. Privacy issue.
At first I couldn’t figure out why it was a problem. I thought calls would go into Kaiser and then routed to nurses and then from nurses and routed thru Kaiser. Nobody would see anyone’s phone numbers that way, Just the Kaiser gateway number, right?
Kaiser was just going to be lazy. Incoming calls still had to go though Kaiser but return calls with be from the nurse’s personal phone number direct to the patient. Still, all you’d have to do is block the outgoing caller ID, right? The union figured that was too much to ask. So the phone nurses still have to go in.
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I’m sorry to hear that. People need to get creative.
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It’s getting serious. Florida numbers continue to go up and no one with NY, NJ or CT plates are allowed into Florida without a 14 day quarantine. If they board an aircraft and cone here they will be taken into a mandatory 14 day quarantine whether they have been tested or not. Gettin’ real y’all!
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Somehow I thought all flights were canceled. I’m only getting pieces of current state because I had to turn off the news. I still hear from others and read an occasional blurb. And good for Florida. Time to play hardball with some of these yokels.
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Sounds wise unlike the pastor who held a mega gathering in his mega church in Tampa yesterday. He was arrested today.
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I had not heard. I am trying to stay away from the news.
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Me, too, but it was so blatant it was everywhere I looked.
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I hope people stay at home and stop traveling around the country and spreading the infection.
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