Recent content by carolina_yankee

I've been reading rather than commenting, but this makes me wonder - could a vendor who signed a contract essentially walk away? This is one sided - the special district doesn't have to honor the contract, but the vendor does. I.E., if conditions that make the contract less appealing to the...

Can they? It’s fewer and fewer, less and less, for more and more($$$).

That’s all very nice, but my wallet isn’t for solving Disney’s problems. The bottom line is they cost more, offer less, and make it intensely more complicated and less fun than even five years ago. If they could only put some of that famous Disney creativity into making me want to give them my...

My last Disney World trip was February 2020 - 9 nights at Riviera. Great Trip. Don’t know if we’ll ever be back at this point. During shutdown, I could make no sense out of paying DVC fees so we sold (for a profit!) and started traveling elsewhere. A great France trip this year, soon a cruise on...

We have about two dozen Disney trips and five cruises under our belt from 2003 to 2020. We’re done. For a period of time, we were shielded from price increased by DVC but that the pandemic brought that to an end when I didn’t want to pay for what I couldn’t use. Made a nice little profit on the...

More infectious than Omicron!

They were thinking we could be at peak right now at yesterday’s press conference, with hospitalizations peaking in a week or so and deaths a week or so after that. They cautioned though that with our very high positivity (30s) we could be at peak for awhile. Numbers do seems to be dropping...

This drives me nuts. I thought surely people would mask up now with our numbers but a recent trip to Wawa this week taught me otherwise. Ugh.

We are very good at contact tracing and are fortunate to be dealing with a known group of people who are very good at self-monitoring. So far, everyone who is a known positive can trace to where they got it or who the weak link was. In most cases it’s an extended family member or work. In the...

If he had antibodies, did he need the vaccine? Remember, proof of recent covid or vaccination is needed for many situations, so we are treating them as equal for functioning purposes. He was able to monitor has antibody levels. I'm not convinced he was irresponsible. And he did get vaccinated -...

The metric seems to be hospitalizations. As long as the hospitals can function, no new restrictions. Personally, I wish he would have restored the indoor mask mandate and reduced indoor dining capacity but the reality is the horses are long gone. All we can do right now is ride it out...

Many of them are having a hard time opening each night. Understudies have understudies who have understudies. It's hard to pull all of that off at a level that the audience expects. Also, I believe the Met is no requiring everyone to be boosted, not just double-vaxed, in order to attend. You...

Covid appears to have run through nearly every family in my congregation at this point (all vaccinated). Generally mild symptoms. No evidence of at-church spread so masking works. However, the COVID disruption is telling. Schools are open but one COVID teen said only four people were in-person...

@DisneyCane said that his doctor continually tested for antibodies and had them so he waited to be vaccinated while vaccinations supplies were limited. When vaccines started becoming more prevalent and it was further out from his covid encounter, he got vaccinated. He used science. He had...

You must have missed my post about our local hospital canceling elective procedures *and* repurposing office space for surge capacity. NJ has procedures in place to allow for surge needs. The problem is the staffing levels. I’m not why people aren’t getting that hospitals are facing a crisis...