{"id":18294,"date":"2021-07-08T08:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18294"},"modified":"2021-07-08T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:24:48","slug":"overnight-news-deal-with-vax-trackers-and-other-snoops-the-21st-century-way-dont-answer-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18294\/overnight-news-deal-with-vax-trackers-and-other-snoops-the-21st-century-way-dont-answer-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Deal with vax-trackers and other snoops the 21st-century way: Don\u2019t answer the\u00a0door."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI always wake up for doorbells \u2013 even the ones on\u00a0TV.\u201d<\/p><\/div>The fear-porn media are aghast that China Joe plans to send vaccine cops door-to-door to track down the vax-resistant. Much rending of garments, but who didn’t see this coming?<\/p>\n

More importantly: Who gives a shit?<\/p>\n

If you don’t have a ‘No Soliciting’ sign at your door, it’s because you like awnings and security doors and satellite TV \u2013 and being closed on. In the age of SnooperCops, you may want to add ‘No Trespassing.’ Making war on my own kind \u2013 the spewers of verbiage \u2013 I might append ‘No Leafletting \u2013 Save a tree, no debris.’ And my all time favorite sign, seen long ago in a TV commercial, could wrap things up: ‘No Crybabies!’<\/p>\n

Or: You could do what I do: Don’t answer the door.<\/p>\n

I am a certified walking antique, but I am one with the smartphone ethic: Texting is immediate without being intrusive, so if I don’t know why you’re at my door \u2013 if you just showed up for whatever reason and rang the bell \u2013 I won’t be there to greet you.<\/p>\n

At our place, a doorbell ring is either a delivery driver \u2013 than whom none are more forthcoming, nor quickly departing \u2013 or a solicitor who has now become a trespasser and who is no doubt a recidivist leafletter. I’ll stay where I am and sustain my concentration, thanks all the same \u2013 although I may in due course disable the bell; I’ve done that in other houses.<\/p>\n

I do the same with my phone: If you’re not in my contacts, you’ll go to voicemail until you are. Likewise email. I am avidly attentive to my work, my clients, my agenda, but \u2013 for that reason \u2013 I shun every kind of spam.<\/p>\n

As usual, I’m the systemic solution to the topical problem, but, even so, shunning particular busy-bodies is easy if you are already habitually shunning all<\/em> busy-bodies.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> Fannie Mae: Sellers still thriving as home prices stay high.<\/a><\/p>\n

CNBC:<\/strong> U.S. housing shortage will be around for \u2018years to come,\u2019 says Taylor Morrison CEO.<\/a><\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI always wake up for doorbells \u2013 even the ones on\u00a0TV.\u201dThe fear-porn media are aghast that China Joe plans to send vaccine cops door-to-door to track down the vax-resistant. Much rending of garments, but who didn’t see this coming? More importantly: Who gives a shit? 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