Bob:
I have been thinking about the best personal strategy with the “teenage driver” strategy in place.
Since I am retired I have the luxury of deciding on what to do.
My read is that I should wait until the current hysteria is over and stores get nice and calm, and then restock (maybe late April?).
Once the accelerator is hit (June, July) everybody will be out there infecting everybody else. Then we get to listen to “we got through it”, “Trump saved us”. If you can, you really want to be in deep hibernation at that point.
Lookner:
RE: Ottawa Senators player testing positive for coronavirus
“It is believed that multiple Senators players are ill and awaiting test results to determine how many have been infected.”
https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1240166357620207617
Thanks, I’m semi-retired and can probably stay isolated indefinitely too, if need be (other than off-peak supply runs, as you mention).
Me and my wife were traveling like crazy for the past few years, but she was always saying “I want to stay home and enjoy the house for a while”...now she gets to do it! And she’s fine, and so am I. Maybe we’ll start some domestic travel in the fall of 2021...maybe.
International travel would be later, probably another year. Cruises won’t resume until 2023. And I’ll be waiting to hear a few things before either them - for airplanes, no more recirculated air. The extra fuel cost for constant fresh air is $1.00 on a $500.00 ticket (i.e., 0.2%), I think that’s worthwhile. For cruise ships, I want to hear of UV zapping of viruses, and serious filtration - and even then I’ll still wait at least a year after the new cruise lines are running, to make sure they’re not, yet again, infecting people.