{"id":116,"date":"2020-03-17T22:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2020-03-17T22:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:45:37","slug":"thanks-for-the-covid-19-reassurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the COVID-19 reassurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank every organization with which I have ever had contact for emailing me in recent days with your <em>Updates<\/em> and <em>Important Messages <\/em>about the COVID-19 pandemic.  I am glad that you made time to reach out to me while you are busy &#8220;<em>closely monitoring developments with respect to COVID-19.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am inspired by the businesses that have &#8220;<em>implemented plans to ensure that we can continue to serve our customers.<\/em>&#8221;  To list just a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A hotel I stayed at last year.<\/li><li>The mail-order company I ordered a pipe fitting from 3 years ago. <\/li><li>The law firm that I consulted while creating an LLC five years ago, but haven&#8217;t contacted since.<\/li><li>The company that represents said LLC in Delaware, whose only job is to forward me a tax bill once a year.<\/li><li>The self-storage facility I haven&#8217;t visited in six months.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Stores.  Restaurants.  Clubs, forums, online newsletters.  Really, every organization \u2013 regardless of whether I have ever had any contact with you or even know what you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how reassuring it is to read, over and over, that: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Our focus is always on the safety and well-being of our customers, employees, and suppliers. We will continue to share guidance and information as it becomes pertinent. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For those that have modified their functions, let me say that I could care less whether some of your employees are working from home.  I am invariably rapt reading about the sanitation protocols you have implemented.  Surely I am sleeping more soundly knowing how the college I attended twenty years ago has modified its services to current students; or knowing how a medical practice I haven&#8217;t visited in three years is handling scheduling of current patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to thank every organization with which I have ever had contact for emailing me in recent days with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}