Originally Posted by
budwom
Your first paragraph sums up my thinking...it's the overall queuing up involved with air travel that gives me pause (paws) but I robustly share your skepticism about the excellence of air handling on airplanes...all the filters and air flow don't assure me if the guy literally inches away from me is hacking and snorting for a couple hours.
New thought! Some friends and I have been comparing notes concerning what we'll do when we've been jabbed and waited a couple weeks. We all look forward to visits, parties, all the usual stuff we do (all with jabbed people), but many of us have independently reached the conclusion that we're probably going to dine out less for dinner, unless we're with friends. We'll still eat out a bunch, but over the past year my wife and I have expanded our repertoire of cooking, somewhat mastering a whole new bunch of things...so on a lot of occasions, the calculus will be why dine out and spend $125-150 for something that isn't particularly better than what we can cook at home? We'll still do a lot of lunches with friends (great post retirement option we have found) but almost certainly fewer dinners at restaurants unless they feature something we can't do well at home...
Not to mention the saved money!
I learned a few things during the pandemic. One of the things I did was to buy a clipper called Beast Clipper that allows one to very easily cut one's own hair; it is specially designed to make it easy to get the back, which was difficult with my traditional clippers. The thing paid for itself after two home cuts! Now that I am vaccinated and allowed to go back for professional hair cutting, I don't have the desire to do so. I would rather continue saving money, and my results are just as good. (My wife helps out with the top of the head, as I only have clipper attachments that are shorter than I want the top to be. At first she was hesitant and slow, but now she is quite competent and does a really good job.)
I don't like to travel, so nothing changed for me there. My favorite activity is golf, which I was able to continue doing throughout the pandemic anyway, so nothing much has changed.
Our church will be meeting together again starting the second Sunday in April (we have been doing Zoom meetings only for a few months now). Since I have been vaccinated, I won't have any qualms about going back to in-person church. That's about the only thing that has changed since i got vaccinated, to be honest. (I have been doing almost all of the grocery shopping, to keep my unvaccinated wife out of harm's way as much as possible. Forgot to mention that.)
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust