COVID-19 Check-In Thread Part III

[Labster]

In other news, I'm planning to hunker for another two months.  So like, if vaccines are 90% effective, that means enough people have to take them so that they are unlikely to pass from person to person.  People don't understand math, or that vaccines are far less likely to harm them than contracting the virus, which means avoiding people for a little while longer.

Very much the case. We're getting vaccinated here, but we're also very specifically only considering it enabling us to have our also-vaccinated friends over to the house, not going out to restaurants or anything.

Again, October at the earliest for the larger stuff for us. We aren't planning on doing restaurants until November, at which point we should know one way or another whether we're finally ending this thing, or we have that small contingent refusing vaccines being big enough that we can't end it.

I have canceled my hunkering after only one month.  For one, the vaccination rate locally looks really good (49%/36%), and our local cases (2.2/100000) are half the state average.  And omg, it is so nice to have a haircut.  I look terrible with long hair.  It is so great to not have to tie my hair off.

And I went to an outdoor dinner party with an old college housemate.  It just so happens that his girlfriend has some family that lives in town, and they're all rich (MDs and JDs mostly) so they've been vaccinated a long time now.  Honestly the 1% are more interesting than most people, though it does get frustrating to hear them talking about which model Tesla they want to buy next when I'm still screwing around with the DMV for a 25 year old car.

I'm not doing restaurants, but I am doing travel next week.  I'm heading out to a few parks and monuments in the desert with a friend from work.  I guess she thought I had some spare time on my hands after I quit.   The end destination is Carlsbad Caverns, so nice of her to choose a park that's an enclosed space.  But New Mexico has a pretty good vaccination rate.

I still need dose #2 but eh: YOLO, right?  I don't qualify until the day the trip starts, and given how bad the parents did with dose #2 I'll just do it when I'm back.