SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

No shit. Google it.

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I started wearing glasses in 2nd grade and then contacts in college. I was so nearsighted I couldn't see the big E on the eye chart. I wasn't a candidate for LASIK when I checked about 20 years ago because my corneas were too thin, so I stuck with the contacts. In the last couple of months my eyes finally decided they didn't want to wear contacts anymore and the optometrist decided to recommend cataract surgery. Being "medically necessary" meant the procedure was covered, so last week I had it done and I now see 20/20, although I still need readers. Still hard to believe. I wouldn't want to watch someone else having it done, but it was painless and took about 10 or 15 minutes. As Johnny Nash once said "I Can See Clearly Now!"

Did you have your lens replaced? Or did you have your eyeball shot with lasers? Not saying that either is a particularly fun time, but one's a little more intensive than the other. (My dad had one of his lenses replaced, and my stepmother complained that it looked like he had a "dead eye" as a result, but given my dad and Trump had lots in common, I'm thinking that this was more psychological than physical.)

I had the lenses replaced. It's done under a local anesthetic and fully conscious. I shit you not, there was no pain and I'm as big a woos as anyone when it comes to pain. The eyes look normal, or at least that's what everyone tells me.

Okay, I'll just spoiler what I heard about the non-bladeless version of LASIK, and while I don't know how it compares to your experience, it's a twitchy kind of thing.

Given all the filming that's going on right now, that makes sense!

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This depends on how the doctor prescribed it IMO.

If this guy was a raving lunatic saying he was going to find a way to get the treatment without the doctor, and the doctor prescribed it with a written and signed warning that it was off use, and gave the man the common low end prescription with warnings for side effects and some legit monitoring of the prescription to notify the man of oncoming health issues than fuck the family.

However, if the doctor said I will take the money for the prescription and just handed it to the guy, or the doctor prescribed it despite knowing it was a load of bullshit, then burn the license and fine him making sure he serves some jail time and never practices medicine again.

I would actually have some sympathy for doctors who allowed patients to take some risks on themselves while ensuring they got prescriptions they know are pure and made with guidelines. You give me the proper warnings and if I die due to my stupidity it is not on you.

Well, after three and a half years of successfully avoiding it, I finally caught COVID and it's a doozy. On day three now and feeling better. But day two was rough.

Funny that I managed to avoid it all this time by wearing masks and working remotely...and then as soon as my office wants us back in person 2-3 days per week (i.e., 2 days per week), three of us come down with COVID... and I caught it at a meeting where a traveling exec explained that more people need to be in the office or we have to downsize our office space, which they want to avoid because it would cost millions to move...

Just let the lease expire and go full remote. Ugh.

I hope the exec caught it too.

Stepdaughter caught it couple weeks ago.

We had it in September and got boosted in December. I think I had a touch of it from her. Everyone is getting it around here. It's the back to school special.

She explained that there is easily $2 million in costs just to vacate the office space and store or get rid of equipment. But seriously, just go to a hotel office concept, not everyone needs to be in the office. They would save millions on rent, and we wouldn't have to do this song and dance.

I’ve suspected from the beginning that bosses hate remote work because they really don’t know how to judge the quality of work. They also lose the satisfaction of being able to call people into their offices and scream at them.

I think it's more that, if their workers are effective without direct supervision, someone might start questioning whether the supervisor is necessary...

New flash. The employees not working while at home weren’t working while in the office.

I'm sorry for your pain, but were you really expecting to avoid it forever?

If your company is owned by Wall Street - publicly traded - then Wall Street is your boss. And Wall Street also owns real estate. And that real estate is office buildings. If those real estate holdings fail, Wall Street loses money. So, it matters not if your company would actually save money by allowing leases to expire, selling off office equipment, allowing everyone to work remotely. What matters is that Wall Street cannot lose money.

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I was trying my best due to having an underlying condition which makes me more susceptible to dying from COVID. But thanks for your concern.

Turns out, I can work remotely pretty successfully for 3.5 years, but I can't work very well when I'm sick with COVID due to in-person work requirements. So why force the latter?

It's not.

I demanded my bosses come back to the office. I got written up for being unprofessional.

And the managers can’t tell the difference

Sorry about that. Hope you get well soon.

That is why they are called stupidvisors. They completely missed your master plan to get them back into the office to discipline you.

How many paddlins did you get? I hope someone didn't misspell something and you got a @Paladin because I would sue.

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