COVID19 Massage Community Confusions

I recently attended an online class about the financial health of my massage business.  

I was alarmed to say the least.  Not by the seeming wanding of the conversation.  Not by the lack of information given to us by someone that barely knows how to teach, much less a command of the information he was trying to convey.  I was alarmed for the following reasons:

1. Students were clearly self-arming with ideas of how to "safely" re-open with no input from OBMT, the people that set our public safety standards.
2. One student, a naturopathic doctor, thought she could lead the group with info she was getting second hand about how to be safe.  Yet few of the other students were inclined to question her knowledge or if she was accepting liability for us.
3. The teacher didn't take a single step to stop the panic

Yes, I did draft a long, anger-filled letter to the board.  And I'm so glad that I didn't send it.  The next day the board director sent letter to all LMTs, stating that workshops were only just beginning and that we were not on the phase-one path for reopening.  Wow...  Wonder if I might have lost my licence...

TAGS:  #OBMTFAIL, #MASSAGE, #COVID19

COVID19 USA response failure

Spending the morning being an analyst again... With the US on the brink of re-opening I couldn't help but wonder how the US is doing in comparison to other countries. Questions like what are we doing better/worse at testing, quarantining, managing, etc. all swirling in my head.

Here are some basic findings.

1. The US had about a month longer to prepare than Europe. Yet, today the US is worse than Italy in cases per capita.
2. Of all the countries in the world, only Ireland, Spain & Iceland are performing worse than the US in containing COVID19.
3. France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Turkey, and Iran are all outperforming our containment with their protocols.
4. Most fascinating is that JAPAN & INDIA (extreme density populations) are the blazing BADASSES and are absolutely showing us how to contain and control.

Question:

• Why are we at over 1M cases instead of half or even a quarter of this number?
• Without a solid healthcare system capable of foreseeing pandemics elsewhere in the world and responding better than those that had less time than the US, how can we expect to have a solid, long-standing US economy?
• Do you really think that our enemies aren't learning about our systemic healthcare response weaknesses right now?
• Are you looking the other way because these questions are too hard to discuss? Those I know in the investment industry say "If you don't plan for the future, you're planning for failure".

Please keep in mind... the US supposedly has turbo-powered, super-power-of-the-world resources - intelligence, military, center of the world tech, food supplier of the world, most medically advanced, most influential in the global economy, etc.

My message: With all this down-time, waiting for our leaders to figure out what others in the world already have, what are you thinking about? What are you going to demand of our leaders next?

Reference for COVID19 cases: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html

TAGS: #COVID19, #TRUMP, #USAFAILS