davethevol
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful......
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We have had to cancel so much stuff we had planned... coronavirus..my mother and our longtime pet both passed away last month..dealing now with my FIL who is struggling with heart and kidney failure...my autistic son needs some time for just me and him...I told him I would take him on a short road trip and gave him 3 or 4 options...he chose Wild Adventures in Valdosta hopefully it won't shut down before our trip over there FridayI was at Kings Island all weekend. Masks were mandatory. For the most part, people followed the ground markers and distanced. It was strange seeing coaster queue lines with everyone standing 6 feet apart.
Overall, they seemed to doing a good job. Temp taken at the gate. Loading coaster using every other row. Cleaned every 30 minutes or so.
Cross the boarder to Indiana and the parks there are a different story. Holiday World and Indiana Beach are both "mask recommended" and few people are wearing them. Personally, I enjoyed HW more due to that. Kings Island, with a 100+ heat index, in masks was tough during the middle of the day. By 5 or 6 at night, the park was dead and temps started dropping a bit. Tough going all day in those conditions.
Much better now, he seems to think he is over it now but said some days were rough. He's in his 30s and caught it from his dad at a family gathering a couple weeks ago. His dad was unaware he had it at the family gathering, symptoms didn't show until a day or two later. That's when he and the rest of the family got tested and all came back positive. All seemed to have different experience levels with it.What’s their condition and how long have they had it?
My daughter is a nurse at one of the big Nashville hospitals. They had a section set aside for covid patients, 25 rooms. The last few weeks they've had to add a section as the admissions for covid passed that. That's the patients that require a regular room. She says ICU currently has about 15 covid patients. Luckily my daughter doesn't treat the covid patients directly, she works with cancer patients. Unfortunately there are currently 10 cancer ward nurses positive with covid between the day and night shift, leaving them very short handed. Since the recent surge in covid admissions the nurses are now required to wear face shields in addition to the masks. Scary times.
I can say from a great deal of experience that passing the virus on from this so called “high risk” behavior is extraordinarily unlikely.I watched the trophy ceremony for the Austrian GP today. It was the first podium finish for the guy who finished 3rd, so he was jacked up despite no crowd and a very toned-down ceremony. Everyone was well distanced although they did have the obligatory champagne magnums. The third place finisher takes a big chug, then bangs the thing on the ground and sprays the other podium finishers and then his pit crew out of the same bottle that he had his mouth all over a couple of seconds before. This is all normal stuff in non-pandemic times, which just goes to show that despite best efforts we're often going to default to high risk behavior.