Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?

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08/13/2023 11:44

Subject: Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, too many friends testing positive.

I'm back to wearing a n95 indoors while in public.

Same here. Friends who caught it in recent weeks were all traveling and going on planes and through airports unmasked. Interestingly, just after another friend who had done this got home and tested positive, there was a big article in the Post or somewhere about how airports and airplanes are particular hotspots for getting infected and people should mask up to travel again. (Before someone insists, "But planes circulate air in ways that you don't pick up stuff" etc.: I know this, but if you are next to someone who is infected, well, you're too close to them to avoid breathing some of their exhalations, air circulation or not.)

We are planning international travel in early fall to see older relatives. If any of us gets Covid at the wrong moment, our whole expensive trip could end up screwed. Or if we catch it during travel and then give it to our relatives while we're there, well, that endangers them, possibly, plus we ourselves would be infected and infectious while on what's supposed to be a long-awaited family visit after years apart. Masking up here at the grocery store or drugstore, at highway rest stops when we're out, at the theater etc. is no big deal compared to wrecking a trip. And those who claim "covid is over" are sticking their heads in the sand about new, more transmissible (not more virulent, so far, but more transmissible) variants now creating the uptick. Masking is nothing compared to being sick, even mildly sick, to me.

Does the place where you are visiting relatives have a safe standalone rental house market (as opposed to a hotel where you could pick up COVID)? If so, stay there for a five days first before you share housing. Test everyday and see relatives outside. Basically I would just test yourself a lot and be prepared to leave the relatives house if you get sick.

And yes n95 and eye protection while traveling and for the week before you leave. And test before you leave obviously

Are you suggesting we do this in place of masking now, in the months preceding the trip, at home? Sorry, but we don't have the time off or the vast amounts of cash to rent a house in another country for five days as a quarantine site. Staying as safe as possible here leading up to the trip, testing before we go and on arrival and masking while there are doable, but a five-day quarantine is not realistic. BTW, hotel rooms in themselves, if they can be properly aired out between guests, have been shown to be quite low risk for transmission; we've stayed in plenty of hotels and air bnb type places since 2021. It's shared halls, elevators, lobbies, restaurants that are issues, and we mask going in and out of hotels and don't eat in hotel restaurants.