Posted on 03/13/2020 2:16:38 PM PDT by Raycpa
My email box is filled each day with spam from the various banks, vendors, financial institutions, non-profits, hospitals, doctors, and government agencies all anxious to tell me how well they are washing doorknobs and taking other precautions.
Please make them stop!
To put the challenge in perspective, over the past few weeks orders for safety masks exceeded our entire on-hand supply by several years, and in some cases, decades. We are working through this challenge and are leveraging our supplier relationships to quickly obtain available merchandise, but in some cases, shipment timing is still undefined.DECADES?? Wow, we are more screwed than we ever dreamed. I’m hoping TP isn’t in the “decades” list.
"We"?
Who is "we" Eddy?
You and your YMCA youth group?
Your Boy Scout Troop maybe?
Guess it’s easier to go online and whine about it instead of just deleting it, like everyone else is doing?
I dug through my y2k stash.
Found 50 masks as in the type for drywall work.
still intact after 20+ years.
I’m a city administrator in Minnesota and this darned virus has upended my whole week with probably 30 extra hours added to my normal routine. I’ve explained this phenomenon as the “Caring Olympics” where organizations and entities do not want to be the odd man out when it comes to telling people how their organization is monitoring things closely, are focused on the health and safety of their customers and employees and that their thoughts and prayers are with everyone. With even our local gas station sending out such messages, I have no choice but to offer up messages of our own or else risk appearing like “government” is not attentive or concerned to this situation. (Behind the scenes I’ve been working with health care, nursing care and school representatives to monitor things without overreacting or causing undue concern when there are no indications of issues in our region as of yet; so we are indeed attending to things and are rightly focusing our concerns.)
I’m not saying the present situation is not without concern or risk, but the pressure to match everyone else’s knee-jerk reactions is a fascinating psychological phenomenon I find myself in.
But they do want their money, and, no they won't suspend the penalties and interest.
This is the IRS, after all.
You rascal...
Have you tried rebooting your computer?
It was really cathartic when I pressed "post", like the world was okay again.
Turning it off is even more effective in these cases...
*Unsubscribe from each email; link is usually at bottom.
*Set-up *SPAM* filter in your email app, tag each offending email and they go directly into ‘trash’, bypassing your inbox.
*Hire Vinnie & Guido Boombattz from Hoboken, to track down each email’s author, and kill them.
I dwell in a garden of tranquility since I ampped up my spam filter and got a really good ad blocker.
So good that newspaper sites forbid me access unless I disable it. Screw them and their paywalls.
It took 31 posts before someone suggests something constructive. Thanks.
“Hire Vinnie & Guido Boombattz from Hoboken, to track down each email’s author, and kill them.”
Heh, heh, lots of us dream of spammers & hackers being hunted down & murdered in their parents’ basement. Especially the liberal kind.
Without Mom & Pop even being aware.
Yeah, how about the constant concentration of Coronavirus spam right here. Any negative article or comment anywhere in the world is reposted by FReepers right here, propagating hysteria, fear and panic. It’s the only way they can get attention.
Mom & Pop would probably put out milk and cookies for you, to get rid of the denizen in their basement.
We need a “Star Chamber” to ID and track down hackers/spammers/phishers etc, and waste them. I’d volunteer for the field spec-ops team, and bring my own Class 3 weapon and ammo. Heh...
Yeah, there are a number of me-too attention-whores posting non-stop Coronavirus threads to make themselves feel important.
Glad to help out.
See my Post #36, too.
Too bad we can’t do that here. Oh wait... there’d be nothing else left to read.
I'm getting the same thing........
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