Do you have a summer vacation booked?

[trvlgirlmq]

This is DS graduation trip and we were supposed to go to London and a British Isles cruise. The cruise was officially cancelled last Friday (not that we were going anyway).

We ended up booking a house for a WDW trip. We will drive, eat at the house or outdoors in the parks. Plan to swim, play board games and just hang out for a couple of weeks. when not in the parks.

We rebooked our cruise for 2022 so here's hoping he gets his dream trip.

 

[monarchsfan16]

Tentatively yes. I'm scheduled for my second dose of the vaccine in about 3 weeks and my husband starts the vaccine series in just over a week, so our household will be protected. Additionally, I work in a school and it's looking like there is enough time between the end of summer program and the start of next school year for vacation plus "quarantine" if my district is still requiring it. I'll be honest; I've reached the point where I'm of the mask up and live in a reasonable manner mindset, so it's really just quarantine requirements keeping me in my (not so) magical New England bubble these days. We are spending February vacation in northern NH (we live in central NH) and probably hitting Bar Harbor, Maine for Acadia National Park over April vacation.

My tentative summer plan is to go to FL in August, stay offsite, do some waterparks and Animal Kingdom, and have some resort time. I'm not ready to do the full blown Disney trip until distancing in lines is able to be lessened, not because I don't understand it, but because standing out in the sun for significant lengths of time in August is not high on my priority list. But I think Animal Kingdom and water parks would be manageable, for what I'm looking to get out of the trip. As a school SLP, the last year has been brutal, and I'm really just looking to get away and unwind.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Normally I wouldn't even mention this but a lot of comments between this thread and others talk about "life after vaccination"

“Getting vaccinated does not say you have a free pass to travel,” said Dr. Fauci. “Nor does it say you have a free pass to put aside all the public health measures that we talk about all the time.” "We don’t want people to think that because they got vaccinated that other public health recommendations just don’t apply.”

Certainly there's a human aspect of relief and even plans are being talked about when more people will have gotten the vaccine but still. I don't really care regarding travel in general but there's a tone going on that is the exact opposite of what public health officials want. Travel, using precautions if you want, just don't make decisions purely because you got vaccinated. At least not until it's been given the a-okay.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I don’t understand everyone who can’t wait a year to travel.

I know last year was a crazy year and time means virtually nothing but remember it's already almost Feb 2021. I had 2 trips cancelled in 2020 one of which was in mid-April. COVID-19 has been around in the world longer than 1 year at this point, was declared a public health emergency a few days short of a year ago, a pandemic for over 10 1/2 months at this point. So yup if you've forgotten this timeline it would make a lot of sense why you can't understand why everyone can't wait a year to travel. If you haven't forgotten this timeline then you're off on your "wait a year" viewpoint.

 

[wvjules]

Normally I wouldn't even mention this but a lot of comments between this thread and others talk about "life after vaccination"

“Getting vaccinated does not say you have a free pass to travel,” said Dr. Fauci. “Nor does it say you have a free pass to put aside all the public health measures that we talk about all the time.” "We don’t want people to think that because they got vaccinated that other public health recommendations just don’t apply.”

Certainly there's a human aspect of relief and even plans are being talked about when more people will have gotten the vaccine but still. I don't really care regarding travel in general but there's a tone going on that is the exact opposite of what public health officials want. Travel, using precautions if you want, just don't make decisions purely because you got vaccinated. At least not until it's been given the a-okay.

I will probably will not have gotten vaccinated by the time my planned vacation comes in July so I was planning on precautions anyway. Luckily, Hawaii is a pretty easy vacation to social distance. I'll wear my six masks (see other thread) on my flights and on the few occasions I'm around people.

We are planning on July b/c it's DBF's 50th birthday. If we end up not being comfortable going when it comes time then we will cancel. We can go for my 50th next year instead.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I will probably will not have gotten vaccinated by the time my planned vacation comes in July so I was planning on precautions anyway. Luckily, Hawaii is a pretty easy vacation to social distance. I'll wear my six masks (see other thread) on my flights and on the few occasions I'm around people.

We are planning on July b/c it's DBF's 50th birthday. If we end up not being comfortable going when it comes time then we will cancel. We can go for my 50th next year instead.

Like I said I don't really care regarding travel in general, don't feel like you have to rationalize it to me personally I've got a trip myself planned in a while (though we're still iffy at the moment) I'm just saying don't make the plans just because you got vaccinated. They've been talking about it for a few months now how worried they are that people will just drop it all once they get vaccinated and we just can't have that en masse yet. Mentally we can only handle so much so I'm understanding, I'm just seeing a lot of the same types of comments.

 

[goodeats]

“Getting vaccinated does not say you have a free pass to travel,” said Dr. Fauci. “Nor does it say you have a free pass to put aside all the public health measures that we talk about all the time.” "We don’t want people to think that because they got vaccinated that other public health recommendations just don’t apply.”

I'm not a fan of Fauci when he talks this way. Honestly, what's the point of getting the vaccine if you are still supposed to socially distance and stay at home? People have been travelling this whole time. It's all madness to me at this point.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'm not a fan of Fauci when he talks this way. Honestly, what's the point of getting the vaccine if you are still supposed to socially distance and stay at home? People have been travelling this whole time. It's all madness to me at this point.

The expectation isn't to do this forever. It's because we're in a precarious situation, as is the world, on it, meaning we've had such few people get it that travel still presents an issue not to mention visual signals regarding mask wearing, keeping distance, etc and the effects it has on others. Presently the advice is you should still follow public health recommendations even as irritating as that can be.

So what's the point of getting a vaccine? If you have to ask that question..then you're the intended audience for the message whether you hear that or not is up to you

 

[Heigh-Ho]

I don't have any right now but it would be nice to start thinking about some place for the future

 

[ford91exploder]

Nope, My company will be catching up on all the things that covid prevented us from doing during 2020 already let us know that vacation time can/will be rolled over

 

[easyas123]

Back to the original question -
Since I first responded we've been discussing and I think we will probably go somewhere (yet to be decided) towards the end of the summer. I have a work thing in Boston in August, so perhaps after that we will road trip it up that way. Plus I've always wanted to go to Salem.

 

[Heigh-Ho]

what's the point of getting the vaccine if you are still supposed to socially distance and stay at home?

If this is how other people feel we're in big trouble.

 

[Heigh-Ho]

Back to the original question -

Threads go off in different directions, it happens, it will probably naturally come full circle, without a nudge

 

[Heigh-Ho]

Plus I've always wanted to go to Salem.

Salem is awesome! I wouldn't do it around Halloween unless you love crowds

 

[ford91exploder]

The expectation isn't to do this forever. It's because we're in a precarious situation, as is the world, on it, meaning we've had such few people get it that travel still presents an issue not to mention visual signals regarding mask wearing, keeping distance, etc and the effects it has on others. Presently the advice is you should still follow public health recommendations even as irritating as that can be.

So what's the point of getting a vaccine? If you have to ask that question..then you're the intended audience for the message whether you hear that or not is up to you

Oh the intent is very much to keep doing this forever, the chatter already is we will need to maintain mask usage indefinitely because the vaccines don't produce 'sterilizing immunity' The question is will ordinary people allow it.

For those of you who want/need a mask that actually WILL protect against COVID-19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_joint_service_general_purpose_mask

For those who want the source material on 'masks & social distancing forever'

https://reason.com/2020/12/04/epide...al-distancing-vaccine-forever-new-york-times/

 

[nw6675]

We booked a house on Pawley's Island for a week in June. We will just be lazy, order delivery, swim in the private pool, surf/pier fish, and lounge on the beach.

We went back to WDW in Nov and DD wanted to go again this year, but just not ready to go again right now.

 

[Heigh-Ho]

For those who have cruises are you anticipating cancelations? Will you keep rebooking or eventually give up? Cruises are so hard right now I keep hearing about cancelations, I don't know if I could take keep getting canceled on.

 

[easyas123]

Threads go off in different directions, it happens, it will probably naturally come full circle, without a nudge

Yes, I know.

 

[Moliphino]

I have my birthday week in May booked at WDW, but we'll see if it actually happens.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Oh the intent is very much to keep doing this forever, the chatter already is we will need to maintain mask usage indefinitely because the vaccines don't produce 'sterilizing immunity' The question is will ordinary people allow it.

For those who want the source material

https://reason.com/2020/12/04/epide...al-distancing-vaccine-forever-new-york-times/

To be clear I'm talking about official public health advice and right now that includes maintaining social distancing and mask wearing even with a vaccine.

The website you posted said "Many Epidemiologists Want Social Distancing and Masks Forever—Even After the Vaccine" well yeah I'm sure they do, makes their jobs infinitely easier. We're not talking about wants though. I don't really want to get into a theoretical discussion respectfully, that wasn't the idea when I posted what I posted.