How do people hear you yell timber?
2 ft? Shit, 2 in. shuts us down. Snowpocalyps 2015 crippled the city… 2 inches. 2.
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I don’t say anything. A lot of people don’t believe in gravity and I can’t explain it to them.
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I wore a N100 mask on a construction site in the Middle East all the time. And when I say all the time, I mean all the time.
It was close to a major steelworks plant and everything was covered in graphite dust. All the slave…I mean immigrant workers from Pakistan had developed weird coughs and eczema from exposure.
It felt like being a deep sea diver, but it the sobering moment came every evening when I’d rinse my work clothes and see all that water with a metallic hue circle down the drain.
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Those guys are gonna be petrified before they even die!
I welded a bunch of galvanized boxes one time without it and ended up sicker than hell. The old guy trick for that is buttermilk. I guess the calcium chelates the zinc or something and makes you feel less like crap?
Edit:
That’s an interesting way to describe it, but yeah. Your motion has to be measured and deliberate. Some people just can’t do that.
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I’m not sure how reading about the Spanish Flu would prove me wrong about Covid.
Non-driving.
Yes.
More than any government should rescue. However, they can be considered hurricane victims. If 6 million people die from COVID, they can be considered COVID victims. If businesses go under due to government-imposed shutdowns, they are victims of government policy. If so many people in a town die that a business can no longer support itself and closes, it can be considered a victim of The Rona.
I certainly didn’t! Lol. I only know what I heard form my close friend about the physical pace of roofing.
I don’t know why those dudes move so fast. You’re gonna be there till sunset no matter what, and the bars don’t close till 2:30 anyways!
Roofing is one of those hard NOPE! 's for me.
“Hey Skyz, you wanna do a roof this weekend?”.
Me: “Why would you ask that? I thought we were friends.”.
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I have a friend and his family has been doing roofs for years. When I was growing up we had a decent sized garage but nothing huge. Dad wanted to save money by doing some of the roofing he knew how to do by himself. Did it in the July heat and it was miserable. Honestly probably only four hours of work or so two different days if I remember right but it was fucking terrible. Couldn’t imagine doing that day in and day out.
Think we just stripped the shingles and my friends dad did the rest but it sucked whatever we did. I was probably 14 or 15.
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I had an old guy working for me that told this story.
He couldn’t reach his parents on the phone and drove over to see if they were okay.
His 90 year old father was going up a ladder with a bundle of shingles on his shoulder, having nearly completed re roofing the house alone.
The father lived to be 100.
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This is almost EXACTLY my thought process!
Buddy sent a picture of him crapping in a bucket earlier this summer… I’m just thinking to myself, why the hell would you do this to yourself if you don’t even have time to hit a port-a-potty?
He likes to joke that his crew has 21 years of experience and 19.5 of them are his.
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I’ll take “what are nutters for 1000 Alex”
That’s absurd.
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Yeah, it might be dangerous. One guy has some lung issues and said it’s pretty tough to breathe, but he’d also probably die if he got COVID so he’s torn on which to worry about, haha.
It’s a federally funded job, since the additions to the factory are to build masks for the government, so the rules are pretty strict. The same company my dad is at doesn’t wear masks at any other job sites.
Prove you wrong about human behavior and the government’s reactions. Hint: people wore masks.
No shit. It’s hard to drive when you’ve crashed. Pileup does not = traffic jam. It = multi-car crash.
If one person dies from covid, what he is a victim of?
And what could have prevented all of those deaths? Could the answer be a shutdown and mandatory mask wearing? Also, you don’t need deaths to shut businesses down but large numbers of sick people will do that as well.
Drugs.
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I’m sure the horse has left the barn at this point, but:
Silicosis | American Lung Association.
They might both get 'em.
I know one can’t just tell people these things and expect anything to change, but it’s good to at least put it out there.
It’s all about the money, as a roofing laborer with no experience you can make around double what other labor jobs pay. Whether or not it’s worth it is another question, but that’s the only reason anyone gets into roofing.
No doubt. All shitty jobs like that are all about the money. It’s not like anyone looks forward to that type of work.
That’s why we rely on immigrant labor so much. People that think Americans are just lining up to work really shitty hard jobs simply have no clue.
In what way would I be proven wrong? Some people wore masks, and some didn’t…but I’m still not sure how that proves me wrong. I just said that the shutdowns have been caused(mandated, even) by government action, and not by the virus.
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