Alan Conceicao <***@gmail.com> wrote:
: I'm already immunized, so I've got a whole slate of stuff I'm getting
: together for the first half of 2021.
Lucky you. I've got a while to wait, but for me, immunization is not the
limiting factor; I am limited by park policies, and those may take longer
to change than my immuniztion status...although I am hoping they will be
driven by actual virus progression rates rather than immunization
percentages. The odds of any given Ohioan being silently contagious have,
by my worst-case estimations, dropped from 1:48 at the beginning of
December, to 1:288 yesterday. Our new coronavirus infection rate is
dropping in an almost linear fashion; if that could somehow continue (it
probably won't) we'll hit zero new cases in about the second week of March.
I don't think that is going to happen, but that's more or less what the
numbers are doing right now.
Anyway, I learned the hard way that I can't tolerate a face mask*, and the
open face covering that keeps me from getting thrown out of a grocery store
is good for, at most, about half an hour...and if I have it on that long,
you don't want to be around me. Even worse, several parks have specific
face-covering guidelines that exclude anything that I can even begin to
tolerate. So parks with that requirement are right out. That pretty much
leaves out Cedar Fair, Herschend, Disney, Universal, and (considering my
location) pretty much anything in Pennsylvania.
Last year I was able to visit Sluggers & Putters, Columbus Zoo, Camden
Park, Holiday World, Kentucky Kingdom and Indiana Beach. Since I was last
there the Columbus Zoo changed its requirements so it's off the list for
now.
For this reason, I haven't made any plans yet, because I don't know what I
am going to be able to do this season. I'm really hoping that we see
changes at my local parks to allow me to get back to Cedar Point, Kings
Island, Kennywood and Waldameer this season, but it is all going to depend
on what policies those parks have in place through the 2021 season.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
* By "can't tolerate" I am talking about a dramatic, unpleasant physical
response. The one measurement I have is that in the doctor's office my
blood pressure went to 160/110 with my physician worried that I was about
to pass out. I didn't think there was any danger of that, but fighting that
kind of panic response from my 'lizard brain' is still not my idea of a
good time.
--DCAjr
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