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General Questions!!!!
2021.03.15 13:57
I am sure you all got the vaccine shots completed quite a while ago!
I wonder how you deal with the barber shop? Did you start to use it as before?
What about the house maid/cleaning services? Did you all resume? If so, how do you deal with while they clean the house?
When do you plan to go out to the restaurant to eat inside? How about the outside? In California, the weather wise, you can sit outside to have a dining!
Would be nice of you to share your wisdom with this dummkopf.
Regards
BB Lee
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Hmmm! Thaaaaanks, buddy. Good advice as usual!
Indeed, I can sweat out for another two months as you pointed out but my wife is dying to resume the house maid cleaning services after she reaches for one full month from the second shot she got, which means April. But what I am concerned about is a young cleaning woman from Nicaragua who did not get the vaccine yet and we even didn't check whether she is a legal immigrant to be able to get the vaccine later or not.
Anyhow, we felt so sorry for her losing the regular work by COVID-19 through the year so that we have to pay more than half of what she gets for the service for free though we stopped her coming for more than a year!
So she is also dying to come back to work though my wife is giving the support for free.
That's the dilemma.
BB
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As long as she wears mask like N-95 or double mask(surgical mask plus cloth mask)
I believe Dr. Fauci would agree with your wife's wish, letting her return to your cleaning job.
My next-door elderly couple with serious medical conditions have never discontinued their
long-time Mexican cleaning lady's job throughout the Pandemic. Their daughter is chief of
medicine at Loma Linda Medical School, about an hour's drive from here.
As I said, it is a judgment call you have to make, I believe.
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That is a good suggestion to compromise on this situation, Dr. HJ, I will take it seriously.
But it wouldn't be easy to wear the double masks while doing rigorous physical work.
BTW, can illegal immigrants get the vaccination as well, later? Kind of curious!
Indeed these illegal immigrants who work hard to make living should get the shots while all Republicans who refuse to get the shot let dropped dead.
Thanks,
BB
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I have not gone to my barbershop for 15 months. 3 weeks after the second dose of Covid vaccination,
I went there. She charged me $17 for a simple haircut that used to be $13 before.
After giving her $20 including the tip, I thought it was really a shabby welcome for me.
Anyway, she didn't do the same nice job but it was a rather poor job with a "rat-eaten" pattern
on my hair. Maybe, I will have my wife give me the same haircut again instead. It's free !!
I called two Spanish house cleaners after about 1 year's wait. It wasn't my wife who wanted house
cleaning so bad. But it was me who wanted to call the cleaning girls first. I was getting sick and tired
of house cleaning ordered by my wife.
I am sure you guys will feel the same to do that under the command and supervision of your wife.
I am pretty sure the girls did not finish the vaccination but they put up face masks.
In my case, it wasn't a "judgment call" at all. In my medical practice, I used to make a lot of
judgment calls but, what the hell, for God's sake, in a house cleaning??
In my case, it was a "forced" call. No, Sireee!!
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Hmmm, so you went to the barbershop though they failed to meet your expectation, WM.
I plan to call up my barber to set up the appointment next week but I don't think the barber, a young Vietnamese woman, got the shot yet and that makes me wonder whether I should wait further till through June all the young peoples get the shot.
Anyhow, I learned from my wife that this hard-working fortyish Hispanic woman with three children who was originally from Nicaragua seems to be still illegal status so that the chance to get the vaccination wouldn't be great.
So we feel like we are stuck with this woman who really needs the work to make living!!!
BB
P.S. You own two houses, though you live in one place at one time so that the area to clean/vacuum would be much more than the small townhouse we live I can tell. But it would give you an extra chance to increase physical activity after all!
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Good summary as usual by Lena Wen, who is also involved in my GWU team as a visiting prof-
she was a former Baltimore Health Commissioner -.
So until all these peoples get the shots, there will be not much change/options for us elderly
even after fully vaccinated!!!
Depressing!!!
BB
These are all judgment calls, I believe, depending upon
each of us' unique circumstances so I'm afraid you won't hear
clear answers from me.
Several of my elderly neighbors have been dining out on patios
at local restaurants, have been using cleaning ladies and have been
going to barbershops and beauty salons for several weeks.
As of yesterday, all restaurants in Orange County are allowed indoor dining.
I stopped by my barbershop yesterday but didn't have a haircut.
Taking out food is more convenient for me than eating on patios.
We plan a small family gathering for this coming Easter.
Medically speaking, I believe, the safest thing for the vaccinated seniors to do
at this juncture is to sweat out another two months or so until most of the laborers,
young folks have been vaccinated.
Concerns regarding variant viruses have not been fully answered yet
although Gotliev, former FDA commissioner, sounded very optimistic yesterday
by saying the USA is not going to have the 3rd wave Europe is currently experiencing.