We're almost there.

Reasonable analogy, but we're only 150 miles along.

(yeah, I know it's different in different areas and with differnet groups).

I'd say wait another month, and then it's off to Dollywood we go!

No. I'm content to wear mask a mask at the grocery store, the only person I want to get within 6 feet of is my husband, and I'd pay a tidy sum not to travel--pandemic or no pandemic.

Cindy Hamilton

And if we were 800 miles out of a 1000, it would still be too early to stop buying gas, using the wipers, minding the oil light.

But that's the way some people out there are sure to behave, because there is a vaccine, even if they and the people they know haven't gotten it yet.

I say September, if we're lucky.

America's masktards have been duped by the leftist propaganda.

Liberate yourself by tearing off your nose bra.

What an empty vapid meaningless life you must lead if this is the battle you chose to fight ;-)

The tragic and stupid part is that some of those people are governors. In Texas for example, the governor removed the requirement for masks. One city, think it was Austin, issued a requirement to continue wearing them there. The Republican AG is going to court to try to stop it. So now in TX, responsible businesses, eg Walmart are in a terrible position. They still are doing what's right, requiring masks, but Trumptards are showing up, saying it's illegal, I don't have to wear one, threatening them, causing police calls, etc.

Florida is another good example, Spring Break (again) in the midst of Covid denial.

If you want to wear Depends on your face, go ahead.  No one is stopping you.

Most of the spring break destinations did not see a surge last year. We kept waiting and it didn't happen. The only places with trouble were the same New Jersey/New York dominated destinations that had the problem before the spring break. (Miami/Dade, Broward and Palm Beach). If the virus was as prevalent as you say, the Gulf Coast beaches, prime spring break locations for anyone not coming down I-95, would have been slammed. The fact is the midwest didn't get hit until the virus got loose in the packing houses and other agricultural operations, mostly staffed by 3d world people. They don't typically show up for spring break.

Maybe, maybe not. There was much less virus around then.

Exactly. That was my point in the previous sentence.

We shall see if your implied conclusion comes true.

Halloween 2020, I didn't open the door but put out a sign saying "Please take something from the bowls". There was also some fine print (which I didn't really expect anyone to read) saying "I hope I won't need this sign next year".

I seem to be the only one who is willing to wait and see how it will go. The total deniers say nothing will happen and the hard core Branch Covidians say another 100,000 will die. My guess is spring will bring a little bump in the numbers but nothing like last year. I still think there is a lot more immunity out there than some believe.

I had exactly one group of kids on Halloween, total 4 kids. I could have given them all a big Whitman Sampler box of chocolates and not been out that much.

Well it's up to 534 thousand now. It was 500K just a little while ago.

Another 56K or 100K doesn't seem unlikely to me and I'm neither Branch Dividian or hardcore.

There are bound to be those who caught it but didn't show symptoms and haven't been tested because they've seen no point to that. I have no way of knowing how many that is. It could be a lot, or a little.

If I spent a lot of time studying where cases were high and what the spread was in those places versus those where it was low, and I knew more math, and maybe had some epidemiological mathematical packages on my computer, I could do a lot better, but I don't' have or do any of that.

There are an unknown number who, if I heard the story right, are naturally, or almost, immune. They had a guy on the radio who had so many antibodies if they diluted it by 1000, it was still more than enough, and I think they said he hadn't been exposed (but maybe not to that part.)

Yes, the disease will hit first and be noticeable in those vulnerable to it, and eventually it may be clear that there was a lot more immunity than expected, but otoh, that might just be hope.

We shall see.

But, who can get through to those Texas big oil republicans? I bet when that attorney was lying in his bed while it was just 10 degrees, he probably started finally considering what the schools and colleges told him about green energy. Instead of fighting it.

Green energy had very little to offer here. Their windmills were down too and if the wires coming to your house are down, it doesn't matter how the power is generated. Even having the current darling, a grid attached solar array would not help because without the grid to clock the inverter you get nothing. Adding stand alone capability gets pretty expensive.

I doubt anyone will miss you. TSA is reporting traffic at pre pandemic levels and our beaches are packed.

Again you are just wrong but rock on. A stand alone system requires transfer equipment and batteries. You also may not get the government subsidy. That subsidy is the main thing that makes this affordable.

Democrats are two-faced.

For example, Michigan's hypocritical governor doesn't have a problem violating her own travel orders.  Yet another example of "Rules for thee but not for me."

Cruella de Whitmer obviously doesn't believe her own Fauci-19 virus propaganda.

The spring break thing was overblown too. Our spike was in Miami/Ft Lauderdale, not big spring break venues these days. The real spike where it always is, in Miami and that was driven by adults from NY/NJ that came down there for the night life, not the beach. The beach communities that the spring break kids go to did not see that big a spike and certainly nothing that taxed their medical infrastructure, no matter how much it was hyped.