Grocery store next door to my pharmacy, we used to all be in the same store but they moved out last year to the new building next door and we have the old space for ourselves now . I work in a Hasidic community in upstate New York, you can probably guess which one. We fill a lot of scripts for Hydroxychloroquine prescribed by a certain Ukrainian Hasidic doctor who’s been in the news a lot lately.
The inspector comes barging into my store, right into the restricted area of the pharmacy department behind the counter, like he owns it. I didn’t have the mask on and he starts hollering at me, he can fine me, $10,000 for the store plus $1,000 per each customer not wearing a mask. I tell the guy I have a sign up in English and Yiddish telling customers they need to mask up, what else does he want? He’s going on about executive orders from King Cuomo the Second, and how he also works for the state narcotics bureau, how would I like them looking through all my books for the last ten years if I don’t comply with the Boss’ executive orders, etc. sounded like a Mob enforcer. Nice place yuh got here, be a shame if somethin’ would (CRASH!) happen to it, wouldn’t it?
So I put on the mask. Says TRUMP 2020 on it. Guy looks like he bit a lemon. Says “Maybe you might be more comfortable with one of those medical masks?” I say “Nah, I’m good.” He walks out , still ranting about executive orders and shit like that. That was the first time.
Second time, they walk up, a pair of them this time. Screaming at my cashier (who doesn’t speak much English) because she’d taken her mask down to eat. Then she (the second inspector) starts yelling “Where’s the pharmacy? Where’s the pharmacy?” I was like, you’re standing in it bitçh, I’m a pharmacist, the pharmacy is the damn building, not me. Didn’t say this out loud, of course. She can’t see me at first because I had my head down below my computer screen. By then I had the mask on, I pick up my head to see her aiming her phone in my direction. This time I had the mask that said “Not My President” with a crossed-out pic of Cheater Joe In the O. She didn’t like that either, but she couldn’t say anything, just hmph’d and walked out. I realized after that she was trying to get a picture of me without a mask, but failed.
The next Tuesday was my day off, she walked into the grocery, nobody had masks on. Boom , $15,000 fine. (I’m guessing there were five customers in there.) Usually there’s someone to call Chickee when the inspectors drive up, but they must have missed them that day.
I don’t know if they’ve paid it or have lawyered up and are fighting it. I don’t deal with the money end of it, just the drugs.
I should point out that this village has roughly the same population density as NYC (about 30,000 people in a bit more than a square mile). The Wuhan Flu roared through there in March, back when Fauci was begging us not to wear masks because the medical professionals all needed the limited supply available. I was hospitalized myself for 11 days plus one night in the ER ( and probably should have gone in 3 days earlier). Nobody, but nobody, wears masks there unless the inspectors are around, because they (we) figure we’re not likely to catch it again. Life is pretty much back to the status quo ante there. (Not sure about the schools, but everything else is open.) Sure there are a few new cases here and there, but it’s not like March when we were hearing ambulances every day.
micromole. Measure of concentration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit)
Actually no. 70% is the optimum for some reason. We also sell 91% isopropyl in the pharmacy, but the 70 is the recommended strength for disinfecting.
(edit: My father used to drink the 151. He said it would make a Black Russian turn white...)
We still have an active iPhone 5c. I got it from my mom when she upgraded. Battery was shot. I opened it (pain in the @$$, you need a 5-pointed Phillips, good thing the battery vendor included one). Cost me about $25 for the parts, the battery itself was glued in, but now every time I use that phone I have a feeling of satisfaction. Not always you get one over on apple...)
What is "Kittitian" nationality? (edit; I looked it up, never mind. It's St Kitts & Nevis. Never heard of that demonym, but the country I've heard of.)