Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 3:31
Are you planning a dental visit during the pandemic?
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Have you been to the dentist? Do you plan to go to the dentist? What do you feel about these disclaimers? It's is not ethical from my perspective, to go for a dental procedure and put my life and the people I care about at risk
And after this, I have just seen so much I don't even know how to articulate myself right now, people being so irresponsible in public, and I don't trust that everybody's being honest when they're going places like the dentist's office because some people are serving their selfish desires, they want to go do things and they don't really care. So for that reason as well, not going
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 4:28
And so it's like we have to redesign the world for zombies or redesign the world for glitter because glitter gets everywhere. Well, the virus gets everywhere. But I think the thing is that until we get asymptomatic testing done, that's the thing that Taiwan has done so well is they've aggressively tested through their cell phone, they track their population. So when someone gets positive, they lock them down. They let everybody know that's had contact with them, that they've been locked down
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
And we're going to have to start the scenario all over again of determining how it's transmitted, what it's actually doing, whether we can create a vaccine for it or not, how often these things will hit us in the future, we can't predict. We can't predict whether we're going to get more than one at the same time
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 2:05
I totally understand where you're coming from. I forgot about that. All the ice is melting and releasing microbes, et cetera. For all we know, this is just an evolution of the 1918 Spanish flu or something. They got frozen in the ice. Who the h*** knows? But we have to innovate. But there's no thought leadership there. So when it comes to thought leadership, I guess I have to look in the mirror
So to tie in to the topic of innovation, and then something that you mentioned, Taylor, the topic of toilet paper. While there were some people that were hoarding it apparently the larger issue was actually we had shifted where we spend our our time during the day. We're not at work, we're not out at various businesses, we're at home. And there's a difference between industrial supply toilet paper and toilet paper we use at home
Michael Zeitgeist
@Zeitgeist · 2:27
And with that missing calculation with the absence of certainty, rather, I actually think I would not unless there is no other possibility, unless the pain is so great that I have to go unless the consequences of not going to the dentist are greater than accepting the risk proposition that comes with it
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 4:06
I don't know why I didn't see your response earlier yesterday, but thanks for weighing in. And it's really interesting in terms of how you got in just before the COVID shut down to have some work done. One more thought is that I understand the dentist needs to make a living. But for the Alberta Dental Association, it's all about image. It's all about providing their perception and taking none of the responsibility. Now, that being said, they can't take any responsibility
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