Other What's ruining your life right now?

I have a good friend who's a dentist. Trust me, he's not finding it easy either. The NECESSARY anti-Covid measures slow things down hugely.

While I'm sure you don't care about his finances, the lower patient throughput results in lower earnings. He'd love nothing more for things to go back to normal, but has to think about the upcoming patients, many of who tend to be at risk of DYING.

 

Christ Almighty what?
We've become a spineless, risk averse jelly of country. No wonder the likes of China & Russia are pissing themselves laughing at what we've become and think they can walk all over us.

What do you think will happen when restrictions are lifted and all the people with wrecked teeth come to see them needing work done? Dentists will be coining it in for years on the back of the damage done to dental hygiene during the lockdown.

The NHS dentistry bill is going skyrocket, along with Dentists incomes.

 

I think the problem is one of a self entitled, me first attitude, as is so common these days.

 

Look, I understand how horrible it is needing dental treatment and not being able to get it, but this is as big a load of pish as I've read on here for some time.

Dentists aren't being cowards for not wanting to reopen. They are being sensible, as it's impossible to carry out treatment without a risk of virus transmission. And it's not just about being exposed to risk themselves - if your dentist has Covid then there's a good chance any patients they treat will also get it. I'm sure you'd be the first to complain if you caught it from the dentist, or if a friend or relative did.

And as Gareth says, the real risk here is that a virus hotspot develops, at a time when the country is struggling to get on top of it. Is that inconvenient, annoying and frustrating for those who can't do the things that they need or want to do? Absolutely. But it doesn't make dentists cowards. You calling them cowards does make you look pretty bad, though.

 

Yes. My friend is so very happy that all this has happened and is positively licking his lips at all the evil wealth due to come his way. It helps that he specifically got into the industry, not because he's good with people, but because he just sees all his patients as walking bags of money.

Because this is the internet, just in case anyone is in doubt, the above is sarcasm.

Don't like dentists? Don't go to one. You're not actually obliged to. It's fortunate that we live in times where dental care is actually a thing. If you want, you can go old skool with a pair of pliers. I'm sure Russia and China would give you some respect for that.

 

And anyway, if there's an influx of customers and as such evil money when lockdown ends, surely that means there's been a dearth of them/it it in the meantime.

So it's more of a case of a back-log of income making up for extreme belt-tightening over the last several months. That's the case with the dentists I know anyway.

 

Exactly. And if dentists shutting up shop and refusing to offer treatment for four or five months at a time was such an incredible money-making wheeze then I don't understand why they haven't been doing it more often.

 

Christ almighty.

 

FMEA documents. Urg. They are the worst, most tedious things ever!

 

I feel so sorry for you - as you say, the most tedious things ever.

Please tell me you're at least not trying to do it with a group of people? Becomes extraordinarily painful. Best to let the expert do a draft to review - not let the non-techies try to be clever.

 

Yeh, its just us two engineers doing it, so its not too bad in that sense, but its just such a mountain to climb! I did my dissertation on failure rate analysis too, so I actually quite enjoy FTA and the like, but this is just dull.

 

****ing humidity. mud valley's got a damn waterfall tonight

 

1st world problem. HDPlex 200W psu is out of stock. Also need a GameCube Gameboy player which costs more than gamecube itself to make my mod fit.

 

And just like that my day goes to ****...

desk turned up, half of it I should say. The other half is still in transit somewhere.

The half that turned up is also damaged

fairly clear scratches, will be covered in part by my desk mat but shouldn’t really be like that

 

Hit the back of my head on the corner of a window. Now I'm dizzy, nauseous and a headache begins to sneak in.