Today was FAR more enjoyable than yesterday. The trainings we went over were WAY more interesting & we actually got to do a wetlab where we did PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) training and got to catch chickens w/a chicken catching pole, restrain them, then swab the oropharynx & cloaca.
We also did some training w/ dealing w/ media & the public. Basically, we treat them the same, that is to say, the public IS media nowadays. Some of the scenarios they put forth sent a chill down my spine, kind of unexpectedly. It seems that we could do everything right & still be wrong. All it takes is one single, solitary frame of a picture taken at precisely the wrong moment & someone w/ bad intentions can say whatever they want to say about what happened in that picture at that moment. For example, I was taking Xmas pictures w/ my Husky many moons past & trying to get him closer to me, I pulled him in, so he was leaning toward me & my arm was kind of around his neck at that moment. At precisely that moment, my friend snapped the pic & it looks like I am really strangling him, but I was not. Put that into someone's hands who had nefarious purposes & real trouble could come about. What is not assisting us is that the trust of the government is at an all time low & there are hundreds of thousands of conspiracy theorists out there. This is a relatively benign video taken by a premise owner during a surveillance/sampling visit of their backyard operation. This could have gone very badly for the USDA & who knows, someone could still take this information & edit it to make us look very bad. Oh & the video is far longer than anyone will actually watch, but it's merely an example of the kinds of things that we'll be faced with & we just have to grin & bear it.
Well, I woke up at 3:30 this morning, so I'm kinda beat. Not to mention that I probably lost 3# in water weight during training. Stay classy, San Diego!
We also did some training w/ dealing w/ media & the public. Basically, we treat them the same, that is to say, the public IS media nowadays. Some of the scenarios they put forth sent a chill down my spine, kind of unexpectedly. It seems that we could do everything right & still be wrong. All it takes is one single, solitary frame of a picture taken at precisely the wrong moment & someone w/ bad intentions can say whatever they want to say about what happened in that picture at that moment. For example, I was taking Xmas pictures w/ my Husky many moons past & trying to get him closer to me, I pulled him in, so he was leaning toward me & my arm was kind of around his neck at that moment. At precisely that moment, my friend snapped the pic & it looks like I am really strangling him, but I was not. Put that into someone's hands who had nefarious purposes & real trouble could come about. What is not assisting us is that the trust of the government is at an all time low & there are hundreds of thousands of conspiracy theorists out there. This is a relatively benign video taken by a premise owner during a surveillance/sampling visit of their backyard operation. This could have gone very badly for the USDA & who knows, someone could still take this information & edit it to make us look very bad. Oh & the video is far longer than anyone will actually watch, but it's merely an example of the kinds of things that we'll be faced with & we just have to grin & bear it.
Well, I woke up at 3:30 this morning, so I'm kinda beat. Not to mention that I probably lost 3# in water weight during training. Stay classy, San Diego!
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