The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Do you have any summer plans, and if so, are you expecting them to be canceled due to the coronavirus?
Talk about it….
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Most of our summer plans have already been cancelled by the government.
Watch Baseball — nope
Watch kids play sports — nope
Hang out on July 4th — nope, at least around here, but may travel to go watch fireworks and celebrate our independence.
Camping — nope campsites are closed. May try to get out of state to go camping now
I really appreciate the government stepping into my life that way and telling me when and where I can go on vacation.
East Park Reservoir is open! Book your site soon because they’re going to be busy busy!!!
No you have it backwards! The Virus has removed everything we have. Our government is protecting us. Good grief.
@popcorn
OMG, when did the government protect us from anything. They sent healthy young men into war to die. Again, and again, and again. California removed all Japanese citizens to internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor because they feared Japanese spies were plotting the subjugation of California. Native Americans were slaughtered by the U.S. Army in the Manifest Destiny Doctrine for the good of the nation. Seriously, you can’t possibly be that naive.
ILP
The virus has done nothing. Our government is saying that their actions are the result of the virus, yet they still have not provided data/science to support it. Our current government is not protecting us. Please, please read history books. Please look at multiple sources before you speak. It is okay to let people think you are naive, but do not open your mouth and prove it. Please?
All of our summer plans (vacation(s), concerts, a wedding, etc.) are postponed or gone with the wind. Life in the Twilight Zone.
We had travel plans…all canceled. How could it be otherwise when we don’t know when/if hotels, restaurants and attractions will be open. And we won’t wear masks for any of that. In the end this just harms our economy even more, which increases unemployment and results in a death spiral for our economy. “We had to kill it to save it” is not a winning plan.
To get my car painted, and I am not about to let a virus stop it from happening. It’s red and unfortunately red oxidizes. It started to look bad a couple of years ago and a little waxing would make it look better, but now waxing doesn’t help anymore and I have to get it painted. It’s a Corvette, so my job now is to find a shop that knows how to work on fiberglass. Mike’s Auto Body is a good shop, but they said they don’t work on fiberglass, and Jim’s Auto Body is ridiculously expensive because they have way too many office workers they have to pay.
Good body work and paint prep is very expensive, especially in this area! Add fiberglass to that equation and it’s even more, LOL.
But it’s a Corvette, so it needs to be done correctly so good luck! [Corvette wave ;0 ]
Everything is cancelled this summer will be a restart of 2020 next year. This is gonna be a boring summer for everyone this year unfortunately;(
My summer plans are hopefully selling my home and moving out of California. Finally able to retire. And just want peace and quiet with some land.
With or without Covid-19, there was no summer plans for us this year.
Us either Roz…just hanging out with the babies in the back yard with kiddy pool, trampoline, camping at night, fires with marshmallows. Good times. Next year maybe going to Nebraska (driving) to visit my other son and grand kids.
Simonpure, are you camping out in the back 40? I’ve been thinking of trying that.🤣 I’ve never camped in the yard before, but the idea is getting tempting!
Actually yes Silva…we do it all the time during warm weather. The grand kids love it. My back yard is very large. I could build another entire home back there.
my fiancee and I postponed our wedding til next summer. Currently in the process of making “change the date” cards to replace the “save the date” ones we sent at the beginning of the year.
Congratulations Cheesebugesa. Maybe the longer you wait the sweeter it will be?
Returning to work … I hope.
Our spring break trip got cancelled, then we were supposed to fly to Northern Italy at the end of this month and it was cancelled, then we had a week reserved in Oregon in July that got cancelled. Looks like we’ll be home for the summer. At least we’re healthy and so is the rest of our family. Now we’re just hoping to be able to safely get into a big aluminum tube and go hurtling though the air to the palm trees and sandy beaches next summer.
I have two goals for this summer.
1. Visit my Dad often.
2. Find a place to live other than the Bay Area.
I did have plans to go to an Olive Garden for the first time. I guess I will put that off until 2021
I will stay on lockdown! Not anything will change. Too bad so sad. This is horrible however I cannot be around a lot infected people that are spreading the virus! We cannot see them but the virus has invisible hosts.
Live in fear to live in terror.
Have a Yosemite reservation in late September that I’m still hopeful for.
108RS
We had a trip to Oahu planned this summer. Getting ready to cancel my timeshare booking. Even if HI is open by then it won’t be the same, I don’t want to spend tourist trap $$$ for restaurants that offer take out only.
Will instead do some sort of staycation and visit some coastal town in California this summer. Still want to help out merchants through summer trips etc. just closer to home.
I need the courts to open. I have some matters pending and a bunch of money is trapped. It’s not making me any money sitting there. I’m not losing it to the market either, so I guess that’s a plus. Open the courts!
Oh Darn,….that’s crappy. But glad your not losing in the Market.
I was going to Denver to get together with 4 other friends but we agreed that this was not the time to travel. With no other time available for all of us between now and the end of the year, we may just lose our airline fares to Southwest airlines unless they extend our “rebooking” date. Such is life….
Some camping in the late summer, and it better not get canceled! Outdoors stuff is low-risk unless you’re talking about a big close-packed crowd or something. We can’t be locked down forever. We need to find risk-mitigating ways to go on with life, and outdoor stuff is the easiest, low-hanging fruit in that category.
On the other hand, depending on what my job situation looks like, maybe I’ll be selling my house and looking to move out of state…
Since vacation plans are cancelled, going to spend as much money in local small businesses as I can. They need our dollars.
Have been living like this since Obama took office. Same old same old. I don’t make plans. I can’t afford to.
I’m going to test out the latest coronavirus vaccines from China!
Everywhere you go, you will have to quarantine for 14 days, so what’s the point?
Going camping and do some fishing.
First thing I want to do is to drive down to Pasadena and see my 1 month old grandson and also my 31/2 year old granddaughter. Everything else is up in the air. I’m a member of the Scandinavian Club and we own a Cabin by Tahoe City, and a summer cabin in Clear Lake. Tahoe cabin is closed, but when it opens up I probably can book a few days without too much trouble, especially if I go during the week. Clear Lake Cabin usually opens up on Memorial Day, but won’t this year, anyway it is open until Oct. so hope I can get a few days up there, it is right on the lake, and very relaxing and usually a good party.
Last summer I had planned on driving to Grand Teton and Yellowstone, since I have never been there, I didn’t make it then, so hope to be able to late summer or early fall, before it gets too cold. If airfares are low perhaps visit my girl friend in New York.
So glad I’m not a joiner. I don’t envy you.
Each to their own, I’m a social person, which is one reason I enjoy working in sales. I’m also a bit of a party girl or was at least when I was younger.
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