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Dental Disappointment 2
Mar. 30th, 2023 06:16 amWe tried to take Lisa to a dental practice yesterday that had a lot of high-sounding good intentions on its website about how they protect their clients from COVID-19. But it was all for show, and possibly just left over from a couple of years ago and never taken down. None of the front-office staff were masked, and the person who came to get Lisa wore a light mask below her nose. When they took Lisa into the clinical area, she said it looked more like a hair salon than a dental practice, with no separate rooms or barriers between the areas serving individual patients. She walked out. If they don't really care about protecting their patients, she can do without them.
Of course, there are lots of people who either think COVID is over or more likely that it never existed in the first place. Later in the day, as donned our N95 masks to go grocery shopping, an Angry White Man in a Monster Truck roared by screaming at us to "Take off those f*****g masks!" which is the first time since we were in Tonopah where we were yelled at for the heinous crime of trying to protect ourselves and others from getting sick. You can draw your own conclusions about why these people are so angry that people would dare to protect themselves like that.
After Lisa calmed down a bit, we went to deal with some errands. To make mounting brackets for the studio lights, she wanted a piece of sheet aluminum 1/8 inch thick by 3 inches wide by 2 feet long. She has a smaller piece of such aluminum, but we cannot remember where we got it. The stores in Fernley only have very thin sheets — too thin to use here. A bit of online searching suggested that Reno Salvage Company New Metals Division might have what we needed, but they close around 3:30 PM, so we hot-footed it over there. To our surprise and delight, we asked for that size (they have samples of various metals on their shelves), and for less than $11 (much less than the wrong-size thin aluminum on offer at Lowe's or Big R) we got a custom-cut piece that was just what we wanted in a few minutes. Lisa was very pleased, and now knows that there's a place where we can get cut-to-size metal of various sizes with no questions, back-talk, or other hassles.
After that we did a couple of grocery shopping stops. Our shopping for Westercon 74 let us to discovering US FoodSource (nominally a wholesale grocer, but open to the public), which has a few things that we both like, but have been unable to find anywhere else. As long as we are willing to buy larger sizes (we have enough space to do so), we can get what we want.
As we were going into US FoodSource, a few flakes of snow began to fall. By the time we finished out second and larger stop at WinCo Foods, more snow was falling, and as we got onto the highway, it started to fall in earnest. I was a bit worried when we encountered a slowdown on I-80 near the Nugget in Sparks, but it was a brief one, and we mostly out-ran the weather. Snow slackened considerably as we neared Fernley and nothing to speak of was falling as we unloaded the groceries. OTOH, a bridge reconstruction project at Exit 46 (our normal exit from I-80 in Fernley) has created enough traffic issues that I think we will need to consider for the next few months coming and going via Wadsworth to avoid the backup caused by people thinking that the "right lane closed; merge left" signs do not apply to them.
Meanwhile, I need to start looking for another dentist in the hope that we can find one that actually cares about their patients' health and doesn't think that "COVID is over" or "COVID never really existed."
Of course, there are lots of people who either think COVID is over or more likely that it never existed in the first place. Later in the day, as donned our N95 masks to go grocery shopping, an Angry White Man in a Monster Truck roared by screaming at us to "Take off those f*****g masks!" which is the first time since we were in Tonopah where we were yelled at for the heinous crime of trying to protect ourselves and others from getting sick. You can draw your own conclusions about why these people are so angry that people would dare to protect themselves like that.
After Lisa calmed down a bit, we went to deal with some errands. To make mounting brackets for the studio lights, she wanted a piece of sheet aluminum 1/8 inch thick by 3 inches wide by 2 feet long. She has a smaller piece of such aluminum, but we cannot remember where we got it. The stores in Fernley only have very thin sheets — too thin to use here. A bit of online searching suggested that Reno Salvage Company New Metals Division might have what we needed, but they close around 3:30 PM, so we hot-footed it over there. To our surprise and delight, we asked for that size (they have samples of various metals on their shelves), and for less than $11 (much less than the wrong-size thin aluminum on offer at Lowe's or Big R) we got a custom-cut piece that was just what we wanted in a few minutes. Lisa was very pleased, and now knows that there's a place where we can get cut-to-size metal of various sizes with no questions, back-talk, or other hassles.
After that we did a couple of grocery shopping stops. Our shopping for Westercon 74 let us to discovering US FoodSource (nominally a wholesale grocer, but open to the public), which has a few things that we both like, but have been unable to find anywhere else. As long as we are willing to buy larger sizes (we have enough space to do so), we can get what we want.
As we were going into US FoodSource, a few flakes of snow began to fall. By the time we finished out second and larger stop at WinCo Foods, more snow was falling, and as we got onto the highway, it started to fall in earnest. I was a bit worried when we encountered a slowdown on I-80 near the Nugget in Sparks, but it was a brief one, and we mostly out-ran the weather. Snow slackened considerably as we neared Fernley and nothing to speak of was falling as we unloaded the groceries. OTOH, a bridge reconstruction project at Exit 46 (our normal exit from I-80 in Fernley) has created enough traffic issues that I think we will need to consider for the next few months coming and going via Wadsworth to avoid the backup caused by people thinking that the "right lane closed; merge left" signs do not apply to them.
Meanwhile, I need to start looking for another dentist in the hope that we can find one that actually cares about their patients' health and doesn't think that "COVID is over" or "COVID never really existed."
