COVID-19 Check-In Thread Part IV

[LynnInDenver]

Still ticking here. Starting to do the return to public living review thing - there is no way we're (personally) going back to anything like Old Normal, it's more finding the New Normal, because we do have to do added risk assessment when going out. Which includes things like wearing masks for certain outings. And some outings will be off the table, or will require us to consider them when we don't need "logistics", which for us is basically "do we have to make reservations with money for things like hotel rooms or plane tickets or rented vehicles." The criteria is the idea that, if we get a variant of concern and a need to back off things again, we need to be able to cancel an event, potentially the DAY OF the event, and not be out any money like we had to write off at the beginning of the pandemic. We lost $150 in a reservation in March of 2019 because they would only allow a reschedule and would only grant a year total to do that in, and we never felt comfortable making the attempt.

As an example, one of the things perpetually (probably permanently) being pushed off the list of things we can go back to considering because of "logistics" is "taking the pinball machines to the Pinball Showdown", because we would need to A) reserve a room at the hotel so we have at least a staging area for spare parts and are available if needed at any time, B) rent a truck to haul two or more machines, as our largest vehicle won't hold but one and C) get help moving those machines out of our basement arcade because my husband's back won't even handle one.