It Isn’t Over Until It’s Over
Some businesses are able to carry on (and some are essential) even during a pandemic flare-up. We’re one of them, so we have a responsibility to be prepared, and we are.
Implications of Being Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Sometimes being able to think your way through helps you understand and cope with hazards better, but in this case it helps dismiss warnings of a hazard that isn’t real.
Deadly Glee
Whenever you are angry about having to live alongside SARS-CoV-2 as an endemic virus that continues to mutate so that we can’t fully get rid of it, remember who’s responsible. The people who decided it’s okay if their bit of personal socializing kills you? It’s their fault.
Monitor the Right Things and Fix the Right Problems
Monitor the right things, the items that will go awry when something goes wrong. Fix the right problems, as close to the root as you can. This approach tends to take less effort for a better result.
Successful (and Simple) Reduction of COVID-19 Death Rate
Against a national pandemic fatality rate of 1.76%, the state of Utah held it down to 0.46%. What Utah did to accomplish this is simple, smart, better for patients and frontline medical staff and finances than what is happening in most places.
Learning More about B.1.1.7 (B117) Variant
Westminster is trying not to sound too alarmed about this variant, but the consequences of letting it become rampant are ugly to contemplate. Instead of translating jargon myself, in this post I point you to someone else’s excellent work.
Planning for Business in a Pandemic New Year
We see opportunity for 2021, growth instead of the hammering of 2020. But to accomplish that growth, we need to convert temporary make-do measures into methods of operation that are sustainable for the long term.
Make a Plan
You don’t need an exotic plan. But with so much socializing at Christmas, it would be good to have a basic plan. Making it will cause you to review what you have on hand and fill in any gaps. Perhaps most importantly, it will simply help you feel prepared. Having a plan is amazingly reassuring.
Emerging Info about New Variant
This doesn’t look more lethal, but it may indeed be more contagious. So what we need to do is the same as before. We need to take the precautions we know we should take. Especially through the holiday break.
2020 Vision at the Holidays
If ever there has been a year for 2020 vision, this is it, and those who understand the virus best are speaking in unison. Denying that virus access to you and your loved ones is the single best gift you can give this holiday season.