The flu is soaring in 7 U.S. states and rising in others, health officials say

[Raftergirl]

38. When my kids come to visit (overnights) we all test before they come. Ditto when we visit them.

We meet friends outdoors for dining, cards, etc. We do a lot of entertaining on our decks/patios. Even now that it’s colder we will have friends over for drinks and apps around the fire pit.

We go to the theatre frequently (3000 person one) and H and I mask, plus the theatre put in a whole new ventilation filtration system when they were closed during first year of the pandemic. Last night we went to friends and we wore our masks until we got in the hot tub.

We mask when any workers have to come to the house. I even play tennis, indoors, twice a week for ams hour and a half masked.

Our social life does take a bit of a hit in the winter, but I have a group of girlfriends I walk with everyday, regardless of the weather.

I go to the salon for every six weeks and every three weeks for a mani/pedi. I just wear my mask.

I’ve flown several times to visit my mother and my H an I have taken several vacations since the pandemic (all to warm weather locations.) We were also at the USOpen, Mets and Yankees games, etc.

The only thing I will not do is eat indoors at a restaurant.

Tbh, I have always been a bit of a hermit in the cold months, which is why we got the theatre subscription so we would be forced to go out in the winter.

Of course I can’t mask all the time..I’m in the process of having a dental implant so lots of time in dentist chair and checkup appointments. Of course, the dentist and assistants are all masked.

I don’t even care other places I go if no one is masked. Most of the time I am the only one wearing one. I believe it protects me as much as possible. What anyone else does (except my husband) is no concern to me anymore.