Another covid-19 shelter/travel question.
Mr. Dash and I are in Left Coast City, where we've been for ~6 months. The previous plan was to leave here at the end of May, spend some time traveling, then migrate back to our home in Small East Coast City. That plan is out the window, of course. My basic question is: when should we beeline home?
We're in a highrise here, in a 1BR apartment. It has grocery store on ground floor, and we're well enough stocked. We've been isolating for >2 weeks now, and have only left the apartment once in the last week. We deploy soap and ethanol appropriately.
We're healthy now. Mr. Dash is healthy generally. I'm mildly immunocompromised, asthmatic, and have some lung damage already.
We have to get home eventually. Home is much bigger and has all our things (home gym, instruments, tv, books, etc), and we'd be able to get outside for walks in our neighborhood at least, which is a big thing.
But there's 45 hours of driving between here and there. Lots of gas station stops at the minimum. Not sure about motel options. Not sure whether we could borrow camping things, but maybe. The car would be too packed to sleep in. We have gloves and a few leftover masks from fire season.
Other minor factors include the extra rent we'd spend if we stayed longer here (we can afford, but); displacing our housesitter (but her family is 3 houses away); logistics of disposing of / donating some stuff we bought to live in the apartment here, and returning the rental furniture.
My take from reading sources like the Imperial College report, and Pueyo (I'm a quantitative scientist) is that the virus is spreading silently, untested in the vast majority and unquantified, and that reality (read: overwhelmed hospitals and lots of death) hasn't hit ... yet, but it will by next week or so. I expect the shit will hit the fan and things will stay bad for months.
My gut says to go now, or we're here for several more months, July or August maybe before it's feasible to travel. Mr. Dash wants to stay here, not risk travel, which he thinks is more dangerous right now.
ok, that's the factors, so when would you go? |
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