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They are fucked up.

 

Two solutions for the “staffing shortage”:

1-raise the pay of the staff and attract more employees (or temps)

2-reduce the resident population (can be done over a period of time as residents leave (move out or die)

 

The senior campus where I volunteer (right now no one is being allowed in the building but residents and staff) has just raised a large amount of funds to pay a sizable bonus to front line employees who have had the brunt of the pandemic. This was done to show appreciation for a hard job well done. The management has long treated the employees well because they realized that as the key to good resident care. A non-profit with community support can do this.

 

Treating employees well has been a long tradition at this senior care facility. The key to any business being successful is treating employees well; if the employees are happy, the customers will be treated right. The business rule I was use to was NOT “The customer is number one” but instead “The employee is number one.” That rule works.

 

Anyone having family in the senior living facility in the original post should move them out as fast as possible.

Question: If you reduce the resident population and move them out "as fast as possible", where do they go? Many seniors are in nursing homes which, by definition, provide 24 hour access to skilled nursing care. Sending them to live with family may not be possible and in many cases, will put them at greater risk. I have a parent in a long term care facility so my family is deeply immersed in all the challenges. All I know is that there are no simplistic answers.

First, let me know if this is in the wrong section...I could see this being in the political section as well.

 

A certain long term care facility has recently tested every single staff member and resident for COVID-19 due to an executive order. Prior to this many of the residents and staff members have been infected with the virus and sadly resulting in many resident deaths. So the facility has stated that even if you test positive with COVID-19 you can still come to work and I am assuming that excludes people displaying symptoms. Even still, there are many residents who have not been exposed including people who have severe respiratory issues so those individuals contracting the virus would be a death sentence.

 

The facility states it is because of a staffing shortage that they are having positive cases come to work! SO what has been the point of any of this for the last 3 months or however long it's been specifically at this facility and as well as the rest of the country continuing to shelter relatively healthy people and exposing the most vulnerable. Seems pretty f#$%*d up to me.

Could you have your facts wrong? Long term care facilities are likely to allow staff members return to work after testing positive IF they've recovered and have not shown symptoms for a certain period of time. No licensed care facility would intentionally allow a staff person to work if they have an active case of Covid and are potentially contagious. I'd be interested in hearing the full story about this facility before getting all worked up.

Love it. I suppose the music without the video would be soothing, but the video is hilarious. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxDWLSHVNI

Not

thank you, but perhaps my problem is that I'm not a big conversationalist, and don't like alot of talking. My biggest horror is talkin on the phone. I let all my calls go to VM, and then i send the caller a brief reply.

What if I found you a podcast hosted by a well hung (huge!) muscle dude who gets off on sharing his considerable assets with an admirer? And, best of all, if you wish hard enough while you listen, he'll materialize right before your eyes and say, "hey JJkrkwood baby, you wanna play around with me?" Would you then listen to the podcast?

Usually the stuff they blabber about is of no interest to me. And do we really need that much "sharing" ?

You may be listening to the wrong podcasts. What are your interests? Search for something you find interesting, download to a podcast player on your phone (or mobile device) and listening while you're walking, cleaning, driving or cooking. Have you checked out Dan Savage Lovecast?

I think they're great. My usual radio station has discussion/documentary/narrative/interview programs usually running 30 or 60 minutes. They post all of them as podcasts as well. So I'm used to listening to the format of a podcast. I also usually do something else while I'm listening, so sometimes concentrating too much on the other thing means I miss what is being said in the radio program or podcast. (That also happens when I'm driving if my required level of concentration on the road and traffic conditions increases, although most of my driving is of the open highway cruise control variety.) If it's a podcast I can rewind it a bit and listen to the segment again. I've found quite a few I like so I don't catch every episode of many if any. The Ezra Klein Show is one example. One thing I really like about them is that they can do a deep dive into a subject or an interview of 60 to 90 minutes in a way that broadcast radio often can't or won't.

I'm also a big fan of Ezra Klein fan and the three podcasts from Vox (which Ezra co-founded): Today Explained, usually under 30 minutes, covers a current topic of the day. The Weeds, closer to an hour, is, as the name suggests, a deeper dive. And then, of course, there's The Ezra Klein show. I never tire of listening to Ezra. There's something about his voice and personality that I find very appealing.

Ezra Klein (I'd kiss him)

I subscribed to Fratpad for a month way back whenever. It was fun to watch for a while but then got a bit tedious. You could book a "sexy" private, 1-on-1 video chat with one of the guys. You had to schedule the time with the guy and pay in advance. Problem was, the site's public chat room was full of warnings about Fratpad guys not showing up for their private chats and clients struggling with management to get a refund.

For @easygoingpal

Love (LOVE!) Chris Martin

Who the heck is he? When I google "Erik Sanders Johnson model" it, I get this:

With Firefox without using an extension.

Right Click

Select "View page info" on pop-up window

Select "Media" on page info window

Sort the list of web addresses by the "Type" column and scroll to the image that you want (you can also do this for videos). Select the address of the image and then select "Save As".

PS. I like to avoid addons and extensions if possible.

Any of you also find that the crisis helped shape your opinion as to what's important to you?

No. I believe that knowing what's important to you is a measure of emotional and psychological maturity... and I certainly hope that I'd already reached that level of maturity.

I was “introvert-shamed”, for many years, until my mid 30s, and started living in my truth.

Previously I was pressured into an extroverted lifestyle, which I never really liked (group trips, constant interactions with people I didn’t choose to be in my presence, and social activities I felt obligated to). Even as a child, I was forced into attending family functions playing with other kids (as at that time “socializing” children, was supposed to be a positive aspect of raising them.) Coming into “gay world”, was daunting for me as well, as I was bombarded with social interactions with snarky, vapid, obnoxious, inauthentic people who drained me to the core. I literally needed a “social detox”.

 

I did a mental “spring cleaning”, close to five years ago and haven’t looked back.

 

I now enjoy my solitude and love traveling alone, sightseeing alone, and enjoying quality time with people that I CHOOSE to be around ( I have a small selection of great, authentic friends whom I respect, and truly like being around).

 

I do what I want to do, on my terms, with no pressures of social obligations.

 

I now live in my truth as an introvert, and I love it!!!!!

Thank-you for this post, @Monarchy79. I too suffered from introvert-shaming in my younger years. It wasn't until around my 40s that I started accepting it and, as you say, started living in my truth. So many people misunderstand introversion. They assume it means being shy and withdrawn. Personally, I enjoy social interactions and love being with good friends and family -- but at the end of the day, I need my own space. I need the alone time to decompress. Then I'm ready to go again.

I've read a number of articles that define different types of introverts. One categorization defines 4 types of introversion:

Social Introversion: Says no to going to a party. Would rather be home doing some kind of solitary activity. When they do socialize, they keep to small groups. This probably ties into a feeling of exhaustion from too much social interaction.

Introspective Introversion: Tends to be pensive and introspective. They look inside themselves and self-reflect often. People with high levels of thinking introversion don’t share the aversion to social events people usually associate with introversion.

Restrained Introversion: It takes this person a while to get going. They don’t jump out of bed ready to embrace the day. It may translate to being quiet or standoffish in social situations but would later blossom into more participation in socialization.

Anxious Introversion: They stay at home from the party but for a reason. They feel self-conscious and even when they’re alone they ruminate about their social interactions.

I'd put myself mostly in the the Introspective category although I sometimes see a touch of the other types in myself.

How come nobody's listed a bowel movement on their daily routine?

I was fortunate in having a neighborhood friend who told me about masturbation before I tried it myself. He was a year older and had been doing it for a while. He pulled down his pants to demonstrate and told me I needed to do it in order to make jazz and I would need jazz to make babies some day (in hindsight, I think he meant jizz). I went home to try it and just like that, I become a devoted masturbater!

This is an easy question for me to answer... I see guys walking down the street or in public places and often assess their attractiveness by asking myself, Would I blow him? I never ask myself, Would I like him to blow me?

Went to my local supermarket early this morning, hoping to avoid crowds. No crowds but availability of groceries was hit and miss. It was good to see sanitizing wipes at the entrance and in most aisles. Produce, dairy and meat departments were well stocked. But aisles with paper products and cleaning supplies were a ghost town. Even liquid soap for automatic dishwashers was gone! Why would people hoard dishwasher soap? The only other challenge was check-out. With only one check-out line staffed with a person, they were encouraging people to use the self check-out registers. These work well for barcoded items but take forever for produce without a barcode or SKU label. Have you every watched a little old lady with blue hair try to get produce items through the self check-out? I would have stepped up to help if we didn't have this social distancing thing going on.

I'm a big fan of cottage cheese with fresh fruit for dessert instead of something with tons of sugar. There are nutrition professionals that argue for full fat cottage cheese and I think their arguments have merit. But I can't quite get myself to go full fat, so I compromise and buy 2%.

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Not to speak for the OP, but he might already be working with a doctor and is looking for a safe, understanding sex partner with whom he can trial recommendations or treatments subscribed by the doctor.