@startrektour is in Ticonderoga in Eastern NY State. Pop 3,000 with 500 + visitors from NY State, surrounding states & as far away as California. At registration, @startrektour asked for proof of double vax status. I have no idea if they turned non-vaxed attendees away. /2
At indoor events masks were optional. @sgem & I wore masks all times. Max 5-10% wore masks. At packed event at local high school aud very few wore one. At #HappyBirthday dinner for @WilliamShatner@TheSGEM and I were the only ones wearing masks /3
At indoor local restaurants, no one but @TheSGEM and I wore masks. I got no comments but several 'thousand yard stares' from people not wearing masks. The sense I got from the US is that a #CovidVaccine is your ticket back to pre-pandemic normal when increasingly it isn't. /4
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Me and @thesgem spent the weekend @startrektour to visit beautiful replica sets of the USS Enterprise circa 1966 and to wish @WilliamShatner a 90th #HappyBirthday. This was non-essential travel to the US for <60 hours. Here is my #Covid_19 thread FYI /1
@TheSGEM bought the tickets months ago when we fully expected to travel w/o restrictions. Sadly, #Covid_19 and the #DeltaVariant meant US/Canada border restrictions remain in place. What follows is what we had to do be able to go and how it went. /2
Cross border travel by land is more challenging but not impossible, so air travel was option 1. Our destination was Ticonderoga in Eastern NY State. The closest intl airport is Burlington VT. Toronto-Burlington flight options are few and involve weird stops in DC or Detroit. /3
Long before LTC, there MUST be decent home care. I have not talked about how this affects me personally until now. I have a close family member with early onset dementia. Her essential family caregiver is unable to fulfill that function adequately.
Their son can help but he too has cognitive and emotional challenges that limit his ability to assume the caregiver role.
As a family unit, they lack the executive function necessary to organize the outside help they need to 'age in place' as the saying goes.