The only people I know who won’t be traveling in July are two very heavily pregnant women and their husbands. Everybody else is off to a vacation destination.
It’s only when you hear about everybody’s travel plans that you realize that it is really over. The collective insanity of our times is done and over.
Even on vacation, there’s no escaping the “COVID” austerity measures…
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“Hi, we’re saving money by taking away the coffee and pool access. Because COVID.”
We noticed this when we traveled for Thanksgiving. Not only was the lobby coffee machine gone, single-use coffee packets disappeared from the rooms. I have not been able to figure out how drinking coffee alone in your room.spreads COVID. Especially since the hot tub was opened and routinely contained people from 5-6 different states.
Coffee is highly infectious, apparently.
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What’s discouraging about it is that I pulled that out of my email two days ago. COVID is not a thing anymore. It is hard to even pretend it is, with a straight face. But they’re not going to reinstate the coffee…
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Just to update that: now that our trip is over, I don’t blame the motel: they were dreadfully understaffed, just like every other service-based business in the area (the fast food places in the same area are mostly drive-thru only because they can’t get enough staff: every single one of them has a “now hiring” sign out).
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“The collective insanity of our times is done and over”
Not everywhere unfortunately, I just read an article about a woman returning to Poland after 16 years in Peru. She describes a country being destroyed by nonsensical restrictions and whole sectors of the economy lying in ruins with no real end in sight…
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