powderfreak

Seen today…

It’s definitely a bizarre illness. Both of my sisters have had it… healthy 20s and 30s. One just lost taste and smell and the other had a strong week long flu and so did her fiancé. I think they had it worse as they were in the first initial April working in NYC hospitals group when It seemed even healthy folks were have strong flu reactions.

It’s crazy the wide range of outcomes. My soon to be brother in law’s father is still in the hospital from COVID. It’s been 7 months now. Recurring pneumonia though he’s been off a ventilator for a couple months. In his 50s, and before it’s asked not morbidly obese… average dude, probably could lose 10-15 pounds but picture an average dude walking 18 holes on the golf course. My sister has already delayed their wedding for a second time as they won’t get married until he can attend. New date is next April. This isn’t a commentary on policy or how we should deal with COVID, but it has hit some hard. His wife barely had a cold, he ends up in the hospital for 7 months.

As usual, ORH is just enough in any given direction to be included .

Local sportsball team needs to remove head from arse and look forward.

Who’d have thunk a summer banter thread in this sub-forum would ever see over 5.1k replies?! On par or more than a HECS thread. And not one single mention of a dew point.

Ha, nah, being in the trenches with the team in the service industry? That’s how you win respect. You take the pissed off Dad who’s kids have been azzhats the entire drive and Mom is about to just walk away from the whole thing? Convince them to relax and have a good time… that’s what they pay you for. Definitely a difference between a product trying to be manufactured and a product that is an experience.

It’s tough to watch.

I’d work for you. I’ve always found that being in the trenches with the employees makes for a performing workforce. Being remote, staying invisible, not interacting in person… that’s not a leader. COVID not withstanding.

Yeah wow, time to end that. Even the 8-floors of corporate offices and shared workplaces (called the mothership) out in Denver are all admin, desk jobs and they’ve been back for many months. Jobs that could be done remotely but returned once state’s vax status hit a given level.

Wait, your company has workers, even remote admin, accounting or HR functions, that haven’t returned to the office to be in those roles? That’s still a thing?

That would be absolutely brutal positioning here in winter, ha.

My wife is addicted to their commentary on the Olympics.

Yeah and just to be clear I don't really have a stance on it in this liability vs gov't interference, just musing some thoughts. The masks seem "easy" and companies like easy ways to reduce liability. For sure mandating vaccines is in a whole other ballpark. I'm firm your body your choice on all angles so that's a hard no from me. Now, get vaccinated or wear a mask like many companies have started doing (I know we talked about it with FOX news and other corporations), it's an incentive but it's not a forced deal. I'm more lukewarm on that one. Companies can make you do things, like wear a mask or wear a helmet (ski country requires a lot of helmet wearing) or wear a red shirt... but once they step into forced vaccinations I'm off the boat.

Yeah for clarity I meant mask mandates. Nothing about vaccine mandates. Mask mandates seem like a very easy way to reduce liability and say "see look at us, we tried, we gave them all hand sanitizer and made them put on masks."

Yeah I'm probably too naive but I mean you see businesses like Family Dollar or Big Lots doing it, they aren't on capitol hill listening to lobbyists and stuff. It just feels more like this virtue signaling (we aren't going to be called out for not doing enough to protect our employees!) and legal departments saying hey, just like we put a sign up that says wet floor every time a drop hits the tile, we should wear masks to avoid litigation. I guess my line of thought was how we see it in the ski industry all the time... like a few too many employees get hit in the back of the head with a chairlift due to poor situational awareness. Now they all have to wear helmets if they are walking or working under the bullwheel. There are pluses and minuses. Helmets might even lower your situational awareness by limiting your field of vision and dampen noises that might otherwise clue you into something coming behind you. But employees put helmets on so that when OSHA comes around or any legal stuff happens it can be said that everything is being done outside of bubble wrapping the lift operators. I just see it more and more that companies continue to try harder and harder to reduce liability and in my mind masks fit into that.

Isn’t a private company like @WhitinsvilleWX‘s telling their employees to mask up different though? There’s no gov’t mandate to mask up in his state or his city. That strikes me to be more about the legal atmosphere in this country where people can sue for anything they want…. not necessarily the gov’t using a private company. Probably with a side of corporate virtue signaling but it strikes me more as something coming from the legal department.

Bears are masked. I feel safe. I keep telling them to take off the mask and it’s ok, the bear said the last human to say it’s ok was seconds before he got hit in the ass with a tranquilizer dart. Doesn’t trust authority.

That would get more people immunity for sure.

COVID is out there somewhere. 7:15pm, perfect weather at 3,300ft. Should get down by dark.

This made me laugh lol. All this serious conversation with this scattered in. Thank you .

76/52 off 47F this morning. What a run of top 10’ers.

There are some passionate syrup'ers out there. Like I personally can't tell any differences between whiskey shots (except they start to loosen me up), but some people can name types or even brands based on a sip. That type of dedication seems to happen among syrup too, ha.

All you need are maples, ha. But I stand by the VT treeskiing! VT Maple Syrup definitely has the "branding" down better than NY, NH, or ME.... who knows if it's better. A Mtn Ops coworker just got back from a Hawaii trip... she said the resort they stayed at gave out little mini bottles of syrup with your pancakes or waffles (because no sharing due to COVID, bringing this discussion on-topic). The syrup said "made in Hyde Park, VT" which is where many of our friends live next to Morrisville. That is literally the only product that you will find in a place like Hawaii or on a cruise or some type of destination vacation... Vermont maple syrup. It's branded well.

That forest type also leads to better treeskiing in Vermont. Very extensive maple-beech-birch forests in the mid-slopes.