Better check the dentist or other health providers next. From a letter published today (not mine)

[mchill]

38. Thank you, but I have one complication

This dentist is very slow which counterintuitively works well for me. My last dentist made my tinnitus 10 times worse and one of the remedies is to drill intermittently. She wouldn’t do that even though I offered to pay for her time. Not only that, she basically fired me knowing I had the root canal on 3/15 and the root canal dentist forwarded my records to her w/o me knowing. Unbeknownst to her, I had found another dentist. I think the root canal doctor told her what I said about her frenetic drilling. To do that on the cusp of a pandemic closing after a root canal! Not impressed. The Trumper dentist, because he is so cautious, did not exacerbate my tinnitus and based on the previous dentist, not sure I’d find another like him. Torn between waiting the pandemic out and making this temp last, but I need cleaning so bad.

I’ve been dreading the call to this dentist to ask about protocols. I’m vaccinated, so not sure of my risk, but we have churches in this town that still think masks are a control feature and a New Age contingency that thinks a strong immune system will protect them. I’ve asked several people in last few days if they are vaccinated—refridgerator repair guy, a contractor, small local coffee drive thru proprietor, an organizer I want to hire and none vaccinated! Every excuse in the book (“I almost died when I got the newest shingles vaccine”, “I don’t trust it yet”, “I had COVID so I have antibodies”, one just said not vaccinated —refridge repair guy..he wore a mask snd zi UV’d my house after he left.). We have two skilled nursing facilities in our tiny county. One of them had a vaccinated resident die. Only 15% of the workers are vaccinated!!

Anyway, this is probably TMI, but it’s life in Trump country.