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Ended up going to Florida and back for a graduation (with a brief stop at Epcot since we were there).

Epcot when we were kids: A taste of culture! Innovation! Live street performers! Music! Food! THE FUTURE!

Epcot today: Day Drinker's Paradise (with Official "Drinking Around The World" T-Shirts).

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*Note: masks no longer exist in Florida, at least in public areas with tourists. Wish my immune system luck on trial via fire. It is the lowest COVID has been since it started, that said.

Masks also pretty much extinct on planes, as well. (N95 on there for me, just because).

mark

@ai6yr masks on planes is a spectacularly good idea. All of my business travel has people getting sick on the trip. The people masking on the plane are never the sick ones

@ATLeagle @ai6yr ugh yeah, if I had to choose to wear a mask in only one place, it'd be on planes. My dad just went to Taiwan for a month and didn't wear a mask on the plane.

"How was your trip" I asked when I picked him up at the airport.

"Terrible. We had a severe cold the entire time."

Even if it was just a cold, if I'm traveling halfway around the world, I don't want to spend my entire time there sick.

@sysop408 @ATLeagle @ai6yr Amtrak is arguably worse. I took a CO2 monitor with me on a recent BOS<->NYC trip, and CO2 was over 1000ppm most of the time. Hotel room in NYC had windows that opened, so I got "fresh" air for sleeping, but the AQ was 25-50 the whole time and so my throat was scratchy every morning.

I default-avoid restaurants (I'll eat in them, for a good reason) and mask while grocery shopping because why not. Work has good air -- low-ish CO2, particulates filled to low levels.

@sysop408 @ai6yr exactly this. But a room full of people complaining of feeling bad and then having to stay in the hotel.