I can maybe see it for some exotic vacation like really remote and cool safari or climbing some remote mountain. Or Antarctica excursion or something that requires major logistic and planning. But freaking cookie cutter resort at coastal beach?
That's loco.
Floating week timeshare. I have like 6 months of dates I can book between Spring and Fall dates. Of course, with kids in school, we're limited to Spring/Fall break, but the last week of May or First week of June are also part of the floating weeks. I book those weeks far out so we can actually use them. The cost of a 3BR unit for a week is just at $900. Compared to hotel costs, if we forgo use for the year and cancel...it wouldn't be the end of the world. I'm just thinking we can stay away from other people fairly easily. We aren't flying, we aren't eating in restaurants....I'm planning on carrying our luggage up the stairs and skipping the elevator, even.
www.cnn.com
Do foods go up in your neck of the wood? Per this article, very much everything is higher now -
Grocery prices are soaring. Here's what's getting more expensive
Okay, so if you're a loyal reader of CNN Business (and we hope you are!) you might have seen a headline Tuesday that said "Prices are falling at an alarming rate." Or a headline today that said producers' prices fell by a record amount.
Eggs are back to normal here ($1/dozen large), same for chicken ($1/lb for legs and thighs). Others are still higher (especially beef and pork).
Reopening seems to come with challenges I don't think we, as a country, are well equipped yet or organized enough to handle well
COVID-19 resurges in reopened countries; Wuhan sees first cluster in a month
China ordered all Wuhan residents get tested for COVID-19—that’s ~11 million people.arstechnica.com
I was at Walmart two days ago, the number of mask-wearers has dropped precipitously (even among employees
At Aldi, 90%+ people were wearing masks.
But just breathing and talking are what I'm talking about with aerosols - there are no droplets there; just small quantities of virus in water vapor. I'm not sure why the Dr. Bromage calls them droplets, could be a matter of terminology (with me likely be wrong).
. Lots of PPE, particularly masks as you mention (but sneezing and coughing still blast out the sides of the masks). Droplet spread is the worst (larger viral loads), but even small viral load outputs per minute add up over the course of hours without sufficient ventilation. Going out to eat at a nice restaurant with a few friends is going to be a bad scene (90-120 minutes of eating and drinking, with no masks obviously); since there will be many other people doing the same in a fairly small space. This bums me out quite a bit, since it's my favorite way to relax in a social environment. Eh, better than being hospitalized or dead.
My grocery bills have gone up, but mainly because I've tripled my beer and wine purchases while grocery shopping. I've also been buying a lot more junkfood, which typically costs a premium.
Are you referring to our current pandemic that hasn't stopped and won't be stopped by the end of June?
There are steps that can be taken, but we are not there yet. We are not going to be doing enough surveillance testing till around August or so and contact tracing is just ramping up, and varies from state to state. So what do you propose, that we be careful, or just accept that around a million people are going to die if we aren't?
The guy is an absolute kook, as has been demonstrated throughout this thread.
What's funny is how, from the start, I've been saying exactly what you are saying here and yet you act like I was saying the opposite and disagree.
This is why I just asked about who's taking vacation time... I'm going to the beach because I can shelter in place there almost as easily as here... With the exception of swimming pool area and passing people on the boardwalk, I can distance pretty easily.
There's a reason the great majority of people you see (yes, outside!) in video of Asian populaces are wearing masks. I'm self isolating, the only people I've seen for days are an occasional pedestrian, maybe bike rider or jogger and I hope to see masks, I'd say most times I don't. Cases/day have been fairly stable, but the last 3 days around 1.5x "normal."
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