Granny
Yeah, I'm a guy
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2001
We decided to go ahead and cancel our July trip which was originally a late May/early June trip. I cried. My heart is so sad but logically I know it was the right thing to do. I was more sad because our youngest daughter decided she wanted to go with us this year. It has been a few years since she vacationed with us. We don't get to see her very often so I was really looking forward to spending some quality time with her. She did say she would go with us next summer though. That helped this Mama's heart feel much better.
So now we are going to have a lot (for us) of points to use next summer and I am going to enjoy every second of planning a big/long family trip.
It is sad to cancel trips this year, but we do look forward with hope that we will come out of this challenge and resume our family bonding on WDW trips. Just make sure you book right at the 11 month mark as there will be so many points out there for next year and I have a feeling that walking reservations will become even more prevalent.
Did anyone hear the news out of Oxford University? They have been working on a corona virus vaccine for (I think) like a decade already. They have just modified it for Covid 19 and it is looking very promising. They were saying it could be available in Europe as soon as September and for everyone else by the end of the year. It could be nothing - but at least it is some hope to hold onto. Dallas county had their deadliest day today (10 deaths including a 17 yr old high school senior) and matched the total for most new virus cases - of 135. Yet our Governor thinks it is Ok for us to open up.
Not to trivialize any illnesses and certainly not to trivialize the death rates, but the numbers you are indicating for Dallas County are pretty low in comparison to many hot spots around the country. Given the population of Dallas County at over 2.5 million, it would seem that your area has done a good job of keeping the virus from running rampant. And you know that this is a really hard time for public officials...balancing the constraints of the disease against the real hardships that unemployment causes. I don't think anyone is making any decisions on this lightly.
DW and I are fortunate in that as retirees, we have the choice on whether to go out and take risks. We pray for all those who continue to provide services to this country, and for those who return to work during re-openings.