A BREAK FROM COVID-19

Great post. People are generally civil to each other, absent the outside negative “pressures” of others.

Thank you. If I could only remember to be like this whenever I leave the house.

Special, very special. Thanks for posting it.

Awesome. Thanks for making my day a little brighter

I was once humbled (well many more times than once) by the empathy of a co-worker. I was working at a retail stock broker. Not the site of many acts of compassion. An elderly man came in to open an account and sell some stock. Back in those days we had physical certificates which he had in his possession. This meant in addition to the paperwork for the account there would be forms to fill out for the receipt of the stock. We were busy and I was young and impatient. The gentleman was having difficulty filling out the form to open the account. It really was a very simple form and I quickly became annoyed at his slowness. Somewhere along the process my co-worker and friend offered to help the man to free me up to do other things. I leapt at the offer. In a short while I noticed that my co-worker was filing out the form and from his dialogue with the customer I finally realized that the man could not read! I feel ashamed to this day and it taught me a lesson I never forgot.

Thanks, you consistently add value.

Several years ago my husband and I had just arrived in Honolulu for a vacation. We went to the Ala Moana shopping center which is absolutely huge and extremely confusing and convoluted to any one first visiting. We happened to come across an old woman who must have been in her 90’s. She said she arrived there by bus but was obviously very confused and lost. She desperately wanted us to help even though we were of very little use as we were as lost as she was. But the compassion we felt for this woman was so overwhelming that we ended up staying with her for a very long time until we were finally able to send her safely on her way. No one else we implored for help could be bothered even though they were from the area and obviously knew the mall way better than we did. I will always remember the desperation in her eyes and the absolute appreciation and relief she felt once we were finally able to help her get home. We may have lost several hours of our vacation but gained a lifetime of happiness knowing we made a difference for a frightened old woman in need. Experiences like this are the backbone of a rich, meaningful life.

Kindness and consideration of others is a taught process. Each of us has either been shown that or not.

Personally, I spent 12 days in medical-solitary-quarantine with 21 hour/day lockdown. Been out just over 24 hours.

Over complete legal bullshit.

The stress people are feeling in custody is perhaps less than people out in the real world.

Details to follow tomorrow.

Wow, wow, WOW! I felt like how much would I have paid for an experience like that. As a window washer, most of my customers are little old ladies and I got to say, they are overwhelmingly sweet. I love when some one trys to warn me about some mean old woman and I find they are just a sweetie. What a great story.

And that, is why we will fight.

I had an amazing neighbor lady when I moved to my current home. In the twenty years I knew her I never heard her say anything even sightly negative about anyone or anything. She was just a genuinely sweet and kind woman. She was from Mexico and walked to the USA with her father who was facing political persecution and they were fleeing for their lives near the end of the Mexican Revolution. He had been a professor at a university but was reduced to working on a huge Texas cotton plantation because his education credentials were not accepted in the USA. She would work on the plantation herself when she got a little older.

I used to go over to her place and bring a beer or two with me to share even after her doctors told her no more beer. After all, “She was 93 and if she wanted beer she was going to have beer!” She ended up with a very aggressive cancer that thankfully took her quickly because she developed a rapid onset dementia that was causing her to be terrified most of the time. This got worse when they had to move her into hospice care. When they did that I went to visit her everyday after work and I’d push her all over the entire place and outside if the weather was good. I’d help her eat, shoot he breeze and watch a little TV with her and she’d tell me her stories. After several weeks of this the staff all thought I was her son. They were amazed to learn I was just her neighbor and told me I must be the best neighbor ever but I told them no, she is the best neighbor ever. At hospice care she would sit in her wheelchair peeking out her door looking down the hall waiting for me to come around the corner. The terror and fear in her eyes would melt away instantly as we set about touring the whole place each day. I still miss hanging out with her. She was an absolute sweetheart and they just don’t make them like that anymore. RIP Cruz.

Going to my fathers funeral today.
Just my brother, three sisters, their husbands and the priest. We’ll plan a life celebration later after this shit storm is over. Or at least when the cdc says it’s over……

It is quite sad though, residents in the home my dad was in is off limits to all visitors. Except they made a special concession for us to visit as he was going fast, alzheimer’s. As long as we sanitized our hands, signed a piece of paper and had our temperatures taken of course, no mask required, I guess because the experts say a mask is useless, except now construction companies are supposed to donate all masks to health care providers on the front lines.

It’s the same with the hospital addition we’re working on.

We’re told to maintain a minimum six feet of social distance, you can be symptomatic for weeks before you show symptoms!!!
Yet, they line up hundreds of workers and march them though the main lobby check point, be asked if you’ve had any contact with a known positive, take your temperature, and slap a green sticker on you and you then walk around to the construction entrance.

Makes absolutely no sense yet hardly anybody questions what we’ve been told by the “experts”, or the methods they employ that break with the new regulations……for our safety.

Sheep.