PhineasC

Hulkamania would have run wild all over this virus.

LOL it's happening man. The Great Reopening of 2021.

Yeah, I could see Montgomery and PG holding off. Baltimore City too.

Thank goodness in MD you don't even need to pretend. All masks off!

In MD, it isn't even required if you are not vaccinated.

A couple days ago, Hogan said the indoor mandate would be lifted for the vaccinated once we reached 70% vaccinated. He just threw that metric totally out the window. LOL In MD, it isn't a "refusal" to wear the mask now. It is not required for the non-vaccinated. I'm sure some heads are exploding right now.

MD lifts mask mandates even for non-vaxxed.

Masks off in MD starting tomorrow.

So basically the crypto market is being driven solely by Elon Musk tweets at this point? It certainly doesn't seem stable enough to be considered anything but outright gambling.

People, especially older people, certainly need to take things seriously and be cautious. I am waiting to see the studies on the long-term impacts of COVID infection and the "long haul" phenomena, though. If this virus acts unlike other viruses we know about, that should be enough reason to be a little skeptical of the stories until we know more. The fact that people anecdotally report that in the long-term COVID caused everything from brain trauma to foot aches is another reason to wait for better studies to find real patterns. There are so many confounding variables that need to be considered. For example, the people reporting long term lung damage. Did they smoke? Did they have a concurrent bacterial infection in the lungs (very common with bad respiratory viruses). Was their diminished lung capacity actually measured or just self-reported? This will be studied in the years to come.

Well, as long as you felt safe, that's what really matters.

Two other travel items: 1) Rental cars are really pricy and scarce still in many places. Expect possible long lines at the counter and having to take a different type of car than you wanted. 2) Uber/Lyft have let me down a few times, which never happened in the past. The app searches and then never finds a car. A couple times, the car was on the way and then never arrived. I expect these things to get worse before they get better as travel demand skyrockets this summer. Just need to factor more time into your plans, IMO.

Just need to be as flexible as possible and be able to shift to a later flight if needed. Easier said than done, I know.

I don't see how these governors can hold on much longer now. MI and VT caving was big, IMO. They had been cautious to a fault.

If it doesn't fill up, they might cancel the flight. I have had more flights canceled on me the last 12 months than ever before.

I dunno, apparently to some it was. Glad we cleared that up.

You are vaxxed, man. This should be a happy day for you, not a day to troll random guy in a banter thread in a region far away from your house.

Are you guys trying to convince me about planes or yourselves? I have been flying all along with no vaccine.

Don't be scared, you are vaxxed. Trust the science.

I'm gonna be OK. Just focus on you, man.

Sure you weren't in a single engine plane flying it yourself?

Was there some huge shift in case counts and deaths from last week to this week I missed?

Will you take off your mask once MA lifts restrictions? Or waiting a bit?

None of you expected VT and MI to drop mandates today. Give me a break. Stop pretending this is all following the science.

You plan to get on a plane soon and test that vaccine out?