I will use China to prove my point. Shanghai had about 23k cases positive (mandatory testing). Roughly 1k were symptomatic. Which is entirely my point. A whole lot of nothing to worry about. Countries that use lockdowns will take longer to get there but 1 in 23 being symptomatic is not bad. While not your taking nothing literally (which I do not) , like other coronaviruses, that's fading to nothing to worry about.
Yep, makes total sense. If I heard an accent (like British) or foreign language and they were fully masked I would make that as my guess. I even had friends traveling abroad for spring break all worried about testing and masking more than usual to keep from being stuck. I did have a friend who traveled to Europe and had to stay 5 extra days while their family was cleared due to a positive test. Stupidly mild case too.
Not true. No mask is perfect. Eating indoors also did occur at that time.
That was my thinly veiled point. Having the indoor mask policy at WDW did not make it remotely "safe" with respect to COVID transmission. The example of your dad and other reports in this thread illustrate that.
Holiday season is also bad for spreading illness. This year was just worse than usual with omicron.
Thank you. We went during the pandemic and didn't get sick but this was before mask mandates were removed. We want to avoid getting sick and a mask is one way to try. My husband got sick on vacation before covid existed and we missed out on the last few days. People are already back to bragging about going on trips even when they know they are sick so we are just going to hope for the best. Not living life feels worse.
This is why I wonder if covid simply doesn't spread easily from transient exposure. We went two times during the pandemic. One time with a mask everywhere mandate and the other time with an indoor only mandate. We didn't get sick and the second time was much busier than the first time. If masks don't work then we surely should have gotten covid during those higher transmission times in Florida. It could be that a large majority of people are safe from infection in casual exposure settings. It explains why there were no major associated surges after those early maskless panic shopping days.
We always do try to avoid getting sick. I'm sure my family sometimes doesn't get my desire to wash hands so much (though half of that is an ick response of mine - as in people are icky) among other things. I think you can do as you feel is wise and no one will judge as long as you aren't breaking rules.
This is why I wonder if covid simply doesn't spread easily from transient exposure. We went two times during the pandemic. One time with a mask everywhere mandate and the other time with an indoor only mandate. We didn't get sick and the second time was much busier than the first time.
I hear that! One trip I was with friends whose kid picked up a bug that knocked her down a couple of days. Missed CRT and everything. Fortunately any of us who picked it up were just mildly blah for a half a day if that, but it stunk. Got me washing my hands more based on what the kid picked up. I've been an AP holder for a long time so I can go back no issues, but would rather avoid what I can.
Pretty much all studies done since the beginning determined that the majority of spread happens in indoor environments with poor ventilation and a minimum of several minutes of being in the environment. The time for transmission to occur has varied by the variant.
It's anecdotal, yes, but my child's school had relatively few covid case notifications August-February. And no "outbreaks" at all (and outbreak defined by our DOH as "“the identification of two or more laboratory-confirmed cases of illness that are epidemiologically linked by person, place, and time.”).
I went in July of last year. At the time, I was unvaccinated and the mask mandates were gone. I wore my mask, and I never got it. Before my trip this past February, I'd been five times during COVID and never caught it.
Correlation doesn't equal causation. @mkt posted about a friend who is an ER doctor in Miami that said they had gone weeks (I can't remember the exact period of time) without a single COVID case and then had 17 this week. I can assure you that there were no mitigation changes in Miami during that time period.
Which would be why I qualified my own statement as an anecdote only
