I’m kind of in alignment with Saunafool.
I have decided that COVID is here to stay. We are double vaxxed and boosted (and I would have no problem with an additional booster every six months if it would help protect us.
Our neck of the woods is currently running nearly 25% positive for COVID and I have decided to bug out.
Tomorrow morning I am boarding a cruise ship for six months (unless screwed up by COVID). I figure, with all passengers and crew vaccinated (and many passengers boosted) there is far less chance of catching COVID than at my local Costco. I don’t expect much of an itinerary (the published one is obviously science fiction) and it will require almost constant masking (I have half a suitcase of good quality ones). While to some, a cruise around the world would be a trip of a lifetime and every port omitted a painful slice, we have visited most of the world’s more frequented ports a number of times (and stayed a week or more in many of them) and while I miss not spending time in some of them, I’ve got enough T-shirts to last a lifetime - and the cruise is simply the best way I can think of to avoid crowds of infected people. Hopefully by the time we get back, this surge will be over.
Of course I could be completely wrong in, oh so many ways.
Anyone who wants updates along the way, send me a message off-line.
Jeff