Subj : aunt was: Miss.RvrDamBre To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Mon May 18 2020 08:36:00 Hi Nancy! BM> Yes: I'd prefer to be in a familiar hospital, or at least one where BM> family and friends could easily and conveniently visit. NB> Exactly... :) BM> OTOH accidents and illnesses don't wait for one to get somewhere BM> convenient. And of course all hospitals are not equipped to handle BM> everything so transfer to a higher level one may be necessary. NB> Yup, AIS2, one might be nowhere close to home and have an NB> emergency... There's a little of transferring between hospitals NB> here, but in most cases, any of the local ones are pretty high NB> level... One exception is that the hospital our PCP office is NB> part of, Unity, isn't equipped for the higher level heart NB> surgeries, so Richard was transfered from there to RGH, in the NB> same "network", for his bypass.... ;) With the cost of specialized equipment and I'd presume also some staffing it makes more sense to have one hospital in system group be the go-to site for cardiac instances, another cancer, another something else. (This example must be a huge place!!) As I said some time back locally Genesis West is the oncology center and some other speciality I'm not recalling right now. They don't do general emergency walk-ins, instead sending them to Genesis East. (The West campus was the one where they put back together this Humpty Dumpty.) BM>> Right: someone, anyone could be asymptomatic and infect. Not just BM>> COVID-19 but just about every other 'spreadable' disease. I'm quite BM>> sure the restrictions are helping slow the spread. Sure, an BM>> inconvenience; better than being sick. NB>> As long as this doesn't become a new normal, banning everyone just in NB>> case there might be some illness they might be carrying... ;0 BM> I'm hoping it doesn't come to that! Temperature scanning might be; BM> would be not that great to go someplace and be turned away because of BM> a fever but one might not know they were sick. NB> And one might have become sick on the way there, too... True; all sorts of possibilities. Becoming sick on the way to or during an event isn't all that uncommon. BM>>> To me it makes sense to have as little inconvenience with the new BM>>> telephone number as possible. Least would be keep the whole thing as BM>>> is and new numbers get the new area code. Second least inconvenience BM>>> would be just having a new area code. Why the decision to split was BM>>> made I don't know -- had to make more sense for some reason. To me BM>>> not that much of a problem; others..... NB>>> An overlay means that everyone has to dial the whole 10 digit number, NB>>> even for just next door.... I forget if one also has to dial the 1 in NB>>> the beginning as well... In Maryland, when they added the area code NB>>> 410 to the already existing 301, they did an overlay... So either way, NB>>> there's inconvenience.... BM>> I wasn't sure so looked it up: can be both. Some overlays would be BM>> just the ten digits and some eleven (require the '1' at the beginning). BM>> The source I read that in said "some states require" which implies the BM>> state legistlature made the decision on the '1' requirement but I'm BM>> thinking more the programming of the telephone system. ...That would BM>> be one of those 'meh Black Boxes" for me: need a '1', press, done! NB>> I'm thinking it would be the telephone system programming, also... and NB>> yes, just go along with it... ;) BM> Yes, sometimes just easier to go with the flow. Personally I don't BM> think I would mind going to all telephone calls require the 1 and area BM> code, or maybe just the area code: isn't like with a rotary phone BM> where it would take a whole extra three seconds to dial those numbers! BM> Sure, would take a while to get used to dialing 'everything' - BM> probably as long as it took to go from five digit to seven digit BM> dialing (growing up in NH was 8-2441 to 888-2441). NB> Not so much of a problem once you've entered it into your cell NB> phone's Contacts or into your phone's directory... just "flip" to NB> it and push... but if you need to do a lot of calls not already NB> entered, it might not be so simple.... ;) I forgot about that convenience bacause I don't use my phone al that much. Dial home, easier to enter the seven digits. I did put entries in the Address Book and have used it. BM>> "Interestingly" -- for us here in the Quad Cities anyway! -- we only BM>> need to dial the seven digit number for most calls to the other side BM>> of the River. If I want to dial from a 563 area code number here in BM>> Iowa to a 309 number in Illinois just the seven digits. (!) Is BM>> restricted to certain exchanges: I can dial below-the-hill Hampton, IL BM>> with seven digits but above-the-hill need eleven. NB>> That sounds like there's one telephone system covering both sides of NB>> the river in that area... otherwise there could have been duplication NB>> of the seven digit numbers, for which the area code would have been NB>> needed to differentiate.... :) BM> Nope: Iowa side is CenturyLink and Illinois side is Illinois Bell. NB> In that case, I'd guess that they've made some sort of NB> arrangement between them for which numbers are available NB> where.... Probably; used to be got enough wrong numbers! (Now it's spam.) BM> "Fun part" is they use two different wiring systems! The phone port BM> wiring is the same (red green yellow black) but the distribution trunks BM> are different. Years ago (early 90's?) they added a new trunk to BM> alleviate the overload; initially created even more busy signals! They BM> finally found the colour coding was different, so a "TXC" signal on BM> one system was blue and on another was orange. Technician instead BM> connected the CenturyLink blue to Illinois Bell blue and -- oops! BM> (The examples of TXC, blue, and orange are made up but the connecting BM> of the same colour causing the problem was true.) NB> Oops, indeed... ;) Good it was found, though.... :) They more or less had to because it made the improvement sso much worse. It wasn't just more busy signals but almost constant busy signals when calling from one side to the other. BM>>> If you plan to go someplace where pictures would be nice just take the BM>>> camera with you; a dedicated camera can take much better pictures than BM>>> a phone, though now the two are getting close. Professional BM>>> photographers would probably disagree, and I'd probably agree with NB> them. BM>>> For a casual tourist photo the camera photo is NB> generally sufficient. NB>>> Indeed. I'd have to make a special NB> effort to bring the camera, though, NB>>> as my phone doesn't NB> have any camera function... BM>> I'm 'lazy' and the less stuff I have to bring with me the better, so BM>> the phone with camera with GPS with Internet, etc., etc. is easier for BM>> me. Again boils down to personal preferences. NB>> Yup, you've been converted to smartphones... ;) BM> Now if I can figure out how to answer the phone part! NB> Can't help you there... from what I've seen there's all sorts of NB> different permutations of what answers the phone... 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