They Closed the Clinic Today

It happened one weekend.

LA protests - how did we get here?

Kind of like the storming of the Capitol on January 6th. Only, this was to protect the due process rights of undocumented persons in the USA instead of a**wipes who claimed to be patriots.

It's not the first time I worked in an area where mayhem erupted. Remember the Rodney King beating (03/03/1991)?

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People who get angry in big cities can do a whole lotta damage; burn cars, throw projectiles at people or windows. Protective forces can counter in kind with rubber bullets, tear gas, water hoses. It turns into one big ugly mess.

The Executive Director of the Medical Center closed the building on the Monday after the protest weekend. He told us to stay home. The call center staff and receptionists, however, were deployed to the medical center to work. Sorry gang.

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It's been a week and a half as of this writing. The building was vandalized with profanities. During the first week there were plans to clean up. And they were able to do so with the resources on hand (even though they had a contract fulfilled for a < $100K service). Then the weekend after the first week came and went and the building was vandalized again.

Again, every day, we would attend am and pm meetings to hear about the progress and what was going to be done. They had decided that the clinic would open on Friday of the second week of closure. In the 40 years or so that the building has been up and running, it has never been fully closed longer than three consecutive days. This year, the building was closed for business nine business days over two weeks.

Mind you, it is June in southern California. It's been beastly hot and the windows don't open to the outside. The air (conditioning) is turned off and the water doesn't flow. Many people were not afforded the right to telework because of the executive orders of the a**wipe formerly known as Cheeto (currently known as TACO).

For two weeks, I turned off my alarm clock. What a joy!