Work email discussion

Co-worker: Ack! I have COVID! My wife and baby are okay but I'm working remotely... when I can.

Boss (to coworker): Please take care of yourselfT

Boss (to me): Are you working at home today?

Me: I'm already in the office.

Boss: You should go home and work there.

Me: Since I'm already here I'll do what I can then go home. Is this a 'work a few days at home' or a full 'bug-out until the Plague is gone'?

Boss: Let's try a week and see how that goes.


So I'll be working from home again... where the coffee is better and naps are allowed.

I'm not too worried - everyone at work is masked, socially distanced and vaccinated. Most have had booster shots. Okay, I'm a little worried as all the hospitals locally are full.

-m

Alternative hospitals?

With all the stories I hear about COVIDIOTS demanding horse dewormer and other bogus treatments from 'Doctor Facebook', then abusing *real* doctors and nurses when their demands are declined, perhaps it's time to set up alternative hospitals.

You'll need a large building with a lot of beds - nothing special because people won't be in the building or using the beds for very for long, some bedpan haulers, and a few amoral doctors who are willing to join in. Since no real medicine will be practiced you won't really need many medical licenses. Add a steady supply of animal medicines, vitamins and essential oils and you're good to go! Homeopathic medications too! Give the patient what they want! Cash, credit cards and bitcoin would be accepted as payment because no insurance company (that I know of) would shell out for such nonsense. Having a funeral home close by would be a bonus.

This would free up real hospitals for people who may need treatment for heart attacks, broken bones and other 'normal' maladies and take the stress off hard working nurses and doctors. It might also decrease the population of stupid, gullible, hard headed, obnoxious, self-entitled fools and make things a little easier on the rest of us. You know... the rest of us? Those of us who masked up, got our vaccines and listened to virologists and doctors and scientists: people who often spent their lives studying infectious diseases?

Pity about the families... especially the kids. Orphanages anyone?

-m