Pianotech

So my question is: how smart is it?

Economic considerations:
  Income - personal reserves are limited - cash today would be nice, cash months from now will become increasingly important.
  Business - every inquiry for piano service that I say no (or not now) to, is potentially lost business forever.
  If one wishes to limit risk, one could choose to say no to new inquiries and only service regular clients – or differentiate on some similar basis.

    Personal concern - I don't want to get this coronavirus!
    Family concern - I have a responsibility to not bring home a highly infectious disease.
    Concern for professionals on the front lines, i.e. necessary workers - yes, doctors and nurses (for sure!!!), but also ancillary health care professionals, public safety personnel, grocery clerks, etc., etc. - I have a responsibility to not get infected that could (and most likely would) threaten them.
    Societal concern - I have a responsibility to just generally not be part of the problem - to not get infected and then spread that infection to others.

I do realize that going into someone's home (where there are no kids jumping on you!) to service a piano can be low(-ish?) risk, especially if one is willing to make the effort to discuss safety precautions with the home-owners, etc.

I gotta admit that I'm having a good deal of trouble weighing all these very real factors. Right now the rate of infections in Florida is going up. It appears our governor is not reacting in a manner consistent with CDC and FEMA recommendations,

The CDC/FEMA guidelines state that any economic reopening must meet four conditions:

- Incidence of infection is "genuinely low."

- A "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection.

- A public health system that is "reacting robustly" to all cases of covid-19 and has surge capacity to react to an increase in cases.

- A health system that has enough inpatient beds and staffing to rapidly scale up and deal with a surge in cases.

I'm not sure exactly where we stand in Florida regarding the last two (although I suspect both are at least a concern), but on the first two I think we are far short of those criteria. Infections are not "genuinely low" as the infection rate continues on an upward trajectory. Nor do we have a "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection as we do not have adequate testing or much (if any) ability to do contact tracing.

I have had a couple calls in the past day or two with the comment  "well, now that Florida is opening up again, when can you come tune my piano".  So yeah, it is time to make some decisions. I am very curious what others who might be willing to share their thoughts might be thinking in light of the most recent scientific, economic and political developments.

So my question is: how smart is it?

Economic considerations:
  Income - personal reserves are limited - cash today would be nice, cash months from now will become increasingly important.
  Business - every inquiry for piano service that I say no (or not now) to, is potentially lost business forever.
  If one wishes to limit risk, one could choose to say no to new inquiries and only service regular clients – or differentiate on some similar basis.

    Personal concern - I don't want to get this coronavirus!
    Family concern - I have a responsibility to not bring home a highly infectious disease.
    Concern for professionals on the front lines, i.e. necessary workers - yes, doctors and nurses (for sure!!!), but also ancillary health care professionals, public safety personnel, grocery clerks, etc., etc. - I have a responsibility to not get infected that could (and most likely would) threaten them.
    Societal concern - I have a responsibility to just generally not be part of the problem - to not get infected and then spread that infection to others.

I do realize that going into someone's home (where there are no kids jumping on you!) to service a piano can be low(-ish?) risk, especially if one is willing to make the effort to discuss safety precautions with the home-owners, etc.

I gotta admit that I'm having a good deal of trouble weighing all these very real factors. Right now the rate of infections in Florida is going up. It appears our governor is not reacting in a manner consistent with CDC and FEMA recommendations,

The CDC/FEMA guidelines state that any economic reopening must meet four conditions:

- Incidence of infection is "genuinely low."

- A "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection.

- A public health system that is "reacting robustly" to all cases of covid-19 and has surge capacity to react to an increase in cases.

- A health system that has enough inpatient beds and staffing to rapidly scale up and deal with a surge in cases.

I'm not sure exactly where we stand in Florida regarding the last two (although I suspect both are at least a concern), but on the first two I think we are far short of those criteria. Infections are not "genuinely low" as the infection rate continues on an upward trajectory. Nor do we have a "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection as we do not have adequate testing or much (if any) ability to do contact tracing.

I have had a couple calls in the past day or two with the comment  "well, now that Florida is opening up again, when can you come tune my piano".  So yeah, it is time to make some decisions. I am very curious what others who might be willing to share their thoughts might be thinking in light of the most recent scientific, economic and political developments.

So my question is: how smart is it?

Economic considerations:
  Income - personal reserves are limited - cash today would be nice, cash months from now will become increasingly important.
  Business - every inquiry for piano service that I say no (or not now) to, is potentially lost business forever.
  If one wishes to limit risk, one could choose to say no to new inquiries and only service regular clients – or differentiate on some similar basis.

    Personal concern - I don't want to get this coronavirus!
    Family concern - I have a responsibility to not bring home a highly infectious disease.
    Concern for professionals on the front lines, i.e. necessary workers - yes, doctors and nurses (for sure!!!), but also ancillary health care professionals, public safety personnel, grocery clerks, etc., etc. - I have a responsibility to not get infected that could (and most likely would) threaten them.
    Societal concern - I have a responsibility to just generally not be part of the problem - to not get infected and then spread that infection to others.

I do realize that going into someone's home (where there are no kids jumping on you!) to service a piano can be low(-ish?) risk, especially if one is willing to make the effort to discuss safety precautions with the home-owners, etc.

I gotta admit that I'm having a good deal of trouble weighing all these very real factors. Right now the rate of infections in Florida is going up. It appears our governor is not reacting in a manner consistent with CDC and FEMA recommendations,

The CDC/FEMA guidelines state that any economic reopening must meet four conditions:

- Incidence of infection is "genuinely low."

- A "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection.

- A public health system that is "reacting robustly" to all cases of covid-19 and has surge capacity to react to an increase in cases.

- A health system that has enough inpatient beds and staffing to rapidly scale up and deal with a surge in cases.

I'm not sure exactly where we stand in Florida regarding the last two (although I suspect both are at least a concern), but on the first two I think we are far short of those criteria. Infections are not "genuinely low" as the infection rate continues on an upward trajectory. Nor do we have a "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection as we do not have adequate testing or much (if any) ability to do contact tracing.

I have had a couple calls in the past day or two with the comment  "well, now that Florida is opening up again, when can you come tune my piano".  So yeah, it is time to make some decisions. I am very curious what others who might be willing to share their thoughts might be thinking in light of the most recent scientific, economic and political developments.

So my question is: how smart is it?

Economic considerations:
  Income - personal reserves are limited - cash today would be nice, cash months from now will become increasingly important.
  Business - every inquiry for piano service that I say no (or not now) to, is potentially lost business forever.
  If one wishes to limit risk, one could choose to say no to new inquiries and only service regular clients – or differentiate on some similar basis.

    Personal concern - I don't want to get this coronavirus!
    Family concern - I have a responsibility to not bring home a highly infectious disease.
    Concern for professionals on the front lines, i.e. necessary workers - yes, doctors and nurses (for sure!!!), but also ancillary health care professionals, public safety personnel, grocery clerks, etc., etc. - I have a responsibility to not get infected that could (and most likely would) threaten them.
    Societal concern - I have a responsibility to just generally not be part of the problem - to not get infected and then spread that infection to others.

I do realize that going into someone's home (where there are no kids jumping on you!) to service a piano can be low(-ish?) risk, especially if one is willing to make the effort to discuss safety precautions with the home-owners, etc.

I gotta admit that I'm having a good deal of trouble weighing all these very real factors. Right now the rate of infections in Florida is going up. It appears our governor is not reacting in a manner consistent with CDC and FEMA recommendations,

The CDC/FEMA guidelines state that any economic reopening must meet four conditions:

- Incidence of infection is "genuinely low."

- A "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection.

- A public health system that is "reacting robustly" to all cases of covid-19 and has surge capacity to react to an increase in cases.

- A health system that has enough inpatient beds and staffing to rapidly scale up and deal with a surge in cases.

I'm not sure exactly where we stand in Florida regarding the last two (although I suspect both are at least a concern), but on the first two I think we are far short of those criteria. Infections are not "genuinely low" as the infection rate continues on an upward trajectory. Nor do we have a "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection as we do not have adequate testing or much (if any) ability to do contact tracing.

I have had a couple calls in the past day or two with the comment  "well, now that Florida is opening up again, when can you come tune my piano".  So yeah, it is time to make some decisions. I am very curious what others who might be willing to share their thoughts might be thinking in light of the most recent scientific, economic and political developments.