TheOffice wrote:Beau,
We were having a similar discussion last night. My youngest step-daughter is a college sophomore. We suspect that only students who have been vaccinated will be allowed in dorms and classrooms in the fall and thereafter.
In Maryland there is a push to partially reopen schools by March 1. Teachers are in group1C. At the rate we are moving, they won't start that group until after March 1. Then there is pushback from the unions. There will be a huge need for substitute teachers. Our county pays a whopping $17 per hour or $90 a day. You can make that loading trucks at Amazon and not have to deal with 30 smartass kids! Hopefully the unions will not rule here they way they do in Chicago.
Sue is determined to travel to someplace warm and sunny next January. I think it is realistic, but I'm guessing a lot of resorts will fold by then.
Joel
Joel,
The sales of campers, camper vans, RVs, cruising boats, trailers, are all off the hook! For precisely the reason you state. Just as Sue wants to go someplace warm and sunny in the winter, so does everyone else. But, they want to be isolated, at least to a level they feel safe. I have two friends in Santa Cruz who are living on their boats, having left their families at home once they came down with COVID.
My symptoms have just about disappeared, probably one or two days before my test results come back. sigh. But, I'm still glad I took the test. Also, my wife, daughters, sons, their spouses, and the grand kids won't let me anywhere near them until I get a negative test result.
At one of the Yacht Clubs I belong to, we're considering mandatory testing of members before they can return to the club. You should have HEARD the Libertarians in the crowd when that idea was floated. A bunch of them threatened to quite. Our Chair said: "You have every right to behave like a spoiled two year old." (That probably didn't make things better, but I agree with him.) It turns out that private clubs have no issue mandating vaccination for their members prior to return, but we can't do it to the employees. We live in a strange world.