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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear List Members,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">For the past three weeks, I have been sick with Covid-19. Take my word for it, you don’t want it. Mask up! But, I am sorry to say, there is a lot of it going around and you may get it like I did, despite your best efforts. In that case, see a doctor! The CDC and your state health departments cannot tell you important stuff, like the fact you may have low electrolytes or other bad stuff hiding there just waiting to croak you. This does affect different people very differently. It is truly a strange disease. But now they know how to treat it. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Okay, done with that! If you contacted me over the past month, and I didn’t respond, please give me a shout out again. Don’t make me dredge through the 200 emails I seem to get each day. I am retired from BLIND, Inc. now, but still have access to my email there, which is <a href="mailto:ddavis@blindinc.org">ddavis@blindinc.org</a>. Please use that address, with <a href="mailto:dickblind@gmail.com">dickblind@gmail.com</a> as a backup. Calling 612-872-0100 will not get you a good response, because that is my old office number and I no longer work there. Dan Ashman, capable Employment Committee member, still uses that general number and is more than willing to help you out. Call me at 612-719-0753 instead. That is my personal cell phone, not an office phone, so please respect it after regular hours. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Even though I have retired from BLIND, Inc., I am still going strong in my role as NFB Employment Committee Chair. In fact, I now have the time to work on all the stuff that a person’s “day job” gets in the way of. Like putting together a career fair around the time of Washington Seminar. And maybe other times during the year. And really mobilizing the members of the Employment Committee to better meet your needs instead of trying to do everything myself. What a concept!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Okay, all I wanted to do is check in. Have a good holiday season! Keep them job postings coming! </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Dick Davis, Chair<br>NFB Employment Committee </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>