Meanderer
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Then the UK would be added to the list.
To Travel, Or Not To Travel
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hollydolly
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yes but it's not at the moment ...all of Europe has been banned by your president from entering the USA except the UK... and there's nothing stopping thousands of people travelling as we speak, from Europe especially italy, Spain and Germany into the UK and then onto the USA...
treeguy64
Hari Om, y'all!
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- Austin, TX.
Uh, I doubt very few will be singing, "Take me out to the ballgame!"
I had to do some reading on the Internet about this subject. Supposedly, a former CEO of Boeing made the statement that over 80% of the “world’s” population has never flown. If I was a gambler, I would wager that here in the U.S. that number would not apply. However, if we would look at Asia, then I would think yes, that number is probably pretty close.
I would agree that 13% is probably pretty close. Like someone else already wrote, have you been to an airport lately?
I used to fly from Chicago to Hawaii. I flew this route for two years in a Boeing 747-400. This plane held about 400 passengers. On one of our flights, we boarded only 46 passengers in this enormous aircraft. We had ten members of the flight crew also onboard. Captain, First Officer, Flight Engineer and seven Flight Attendants.
Just to make certain, I called the Dispatcher and told him the situation. I just wanted to make sure that they were aware of the situation. They were and the Dispatcher told me that the plane was scheduled to fly onto Tokyo. So, we flew to Honolulu and when I got inside the Dispatcher’s office, I checked to see how many passengers were flying to Tokyo. To my surprise, there were 388 passengers checked-in for the flight.
I keep in touch with a few of the men still working for United at my home airport in Washington, D.C. and the one fellow asked me if I would like to come back to United and work part time. I asked him, "Doing what?" He said, "Spraying sanitizer throughout the planes that sit at the gates overnight. You get to use a respirator" I told him, "No, but thanks." He said, "Well, hang on a minute. It pays $37.00 an hour." That's about $1500.00 a week. I really had to think about that, but I still said no.
He told me that they need nine workers to be able to get all of the planes done before the first flight in the morning. They have already gone through over twenty workers. Too many young people showing up that don't want to work is their opinion. He said one fellow, 20 years old, was showed how to do the job and refused. He told the supervisor that he quit and is going back on unemployment. I didn't know anyone could do that. I always thought that if you were offered a job that you could do and it paid reasonable wages, you had to take it, if you were fit and able to do it and if you didn't, you weren't able to collect benefits. I guess that I was wrong.
He told me that they need nine workers to be able to get all of the planes done before the first flight in the morning. They have already gone through over twenty workers. Too many young people showing up that don't want to work is their opinion. He said one fellow, 20 years old, was showed how to do the job and refused. He told the supervisor that he quit and is going back on unemployment. I didn't know anyone could do that. I always thought that if you were offered a job that you could do and it paid reasonable wages, you had to take it, if you were fit and able to do it and if you didn't, you weren't able to collect benefits. I guess that I was wrong.
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OneEyedDiva
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- New Jersey
Well now I must say Happy Sunday. The travel industry certainly has taken a huge hit. All I have to do is walk two blocks to catch the Atlantic City casino bus when I want to go to my timeshare. I'm waiting for warmer weather though. I hope by then, the bus will still go there. Have to take NJ Transit back home and it takes me to Port Authority in New York, which has the most cases in the country so far. So I don't know how that would affect my travel home. I guess the closer I get to the weeks I want to go, the better that question could be answered, but then things change from day to day.
I feel for those who are in all the government agencies, businesses and industries that are being affected by this. There will be far reaching effects which may not be obvious yet.
I feel for those who are in all the government agencies, businesses and industries that are being affected by this. There will be far reaching effects which may not be obvious yet.
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I would not get on a plane or a cruise ship at this point, but my lovely SO and I left Monday morning and travelled by car until Friday afternoon. Didn't make any reservations, but had no problems finding nice, pet friendly, handicapped accessible rooms. Went to a couple of "touristy" areas in Virginia that would typically be busy even in the off season. There were other folks their, but no lines at all. It even seemed like fewer cars on the roads.
Because we were traveling with our fur baby, we didn't go into any sit down restaurants, so not sure how busy they might have been. All in all, a nice relaxing mini-vaca.
Because we were traveling with our fur baby, we didn't go into any sit down restaurants, so not sure how busy they might have been. All in all, a nice relaxing mini-vaca.
Packerjohn
Packerjohn
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- Canada
Me thinks that too many people are traveling the world. Here is a fact: In 1960 80,000 people visited Thailand. In 2019 39 million visited Thailand. Isn't that a bit too much? Less travel, less pollution & better for the Green House but maybe not that good for the economy. Perhaps the Cornavirus scare has some benefits for the environment. A mate of mine, over coffee yesterday, told me that all this Cornavirus things will eventually blow over & it will have some effects but the world will go on. It always has. Just stop buying all that toilet paper. It will not stop you getting Cornavirus. Washing your dirty hands will though!
OneEyedDiva
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- New Jersey
John, I sure hope your friend is right. And he probably is...we just can't say yet how long it will take. After you eat all that food, you are going to need toilet paper. When you run out and go to buy more, I hope you don't find empty shelves because everybody else got theirs.
treeguy64
Hari Om, y'all!
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- Austin, TX.
Stopped using toilet paper about twenty-five years ago.
Get yourself a portable sitz bath, and use it with very cold water, filled just up to the little bump that is meant to hold the included water supply tube, which I've never used. Wash your hands, use your fingers to clean everything down there, blot dry with a dedicated towel, wash your hands, done.
You will stay cleaner than you've ever been, unless you've been a bidet user. You will come to view toilet paper for what it is: A gross way to push things around, down there, never quite getting as clean as those disgusting, animated, red, TV bears would have you believe!
Get yourself a portable sitz bath, and use it with very cold water, filled just up to the little bump that is meant to hold the included water supply tube, which I've never used. Wash your hands, use your fingers to clean everything down there, blot dry with a dedicated towel, wash your hands, done.
You will stay cleaner than you've ever been, unless you've been a bidet user. You will come to view toilet paper for what it is: A gross way to push things around, down there, never quite getting as clean as those disgusting, animated, red, TV bears would have you believe!
StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
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- Los Angeles Suburbs
I certainly hope so.
Packerjohn
Packerjohn
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- Canada
That's right, Oldman. People seem to love a crisis since most people lead such boring lives. They loved following Princess Diana when she was married. Then they were all excited about that Y2K, spent millions fixing computers but nothing happened. Then there was 9/11. Let's not forget Swine Flu, Chicken Flu, Sars. Buying toilet paper gives these poor boring people something to think about. How sad! What what the next crisis will be & I guarantee you there will be more crisis. More people = more crisis.
I have been wondering what the newscasters would be talking about if the Coronavirus hadn’t come along.
Packerjohn
Packerjohn
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- Canada
For a long time it was all about Harvey Weinstein. Sometimes, it gets to the point that I don't feel like looking at the news. As least with the computer, I read just the titles & keep going. They have certainly "beat this Cornavirus issue" to death. You would think that the world is coming to an end.
I watch weather, then switch over to my Streaming Devise....
That's the best part of reading the news on the Internet. You can pick and choose what you want to read.
I actually received a call today from the chief of maintenance in D.C. asking me if I would be interested in coming down and helping with sanitizing the planes that sit at the gates overnight. I did not return the call.
Gaer
"Angel whisperer"
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- New Mexico U.S.A.
How DARE they ask Superman to lower himself to do something like that! I'm not being facetious, I think you're incredibly intelligent. In fact, I'm in awe of you! But, when you take your shirt off, do you have a big giant "S" on your tee-shirt? TeeHee!
jujube
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I'm sure by then we'll even welcome news about the Kartrashians………………….
bingo
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- southeast illinois
we traveled down to nc....from illinois first of Feb...for work ..in the motor home...with our three little dogs....in an isolated campground......
waiting to hear if my husband's job will stay going...if building inspectors shut down...a problem
waiting to hear if my husband's job will stay going...if building inspectors shut down...a problem
I may have considered doing it, except I work PT for a large grocery chain store on Mon-Fri and I need to get the food on the shelves. I really wonder what people are doing with all the food they are buying. Where are they storing it? We have a rather large pantry, but it is not even half full. Two people don’t need hoards of food, pandemic or not. If need be, I’ll go out and shoot a deer and a turkey.
BTW, I really appreciate your ability to sculpt. It’s an art that not everyone can do. I learned to draw early in my life while in Engineering school, but I used special instruments to make my drawings. That, was a boring job and is why I went to flight school.
I have flown into Sunport numerous times. I enjoyed flying in over the mountains. I think it was 2000, I had a two-day layover in Albuquerque and decided to make it a mini vacation. I knew that I was going to be there for the two-days prior to my departure, so my wife decided to tag along. It was in early October and the Balloon Festival was on. We attended the morning grand ascension when all the balloons go up. We also drove up to the top of the Sandia Mountains. It was about 80 degrees at the bottom and a very windy 50 up top. We also went to the Sandia Casino. We ate at an Italian restaurant before going to the casino. It was the very best Italian food that I ever ate. The owners were from Italy, of course. Funny thing that happened was we had stopped at a McDonalds to get an ice cream. As I sat down to eat my ice cream, I looked out the window and saw a whole mess of prairie dogs. I guess I became a little excited and was kind of loud when I blurted out, “Holy Cow! Look at all the prairie dogs!” A man sitting with his wife in the booth across from us started to laugh. He said to me, “You’re from back East, right?”