Beate and Tim arrived from Texas last week are are still doing the 14-day quarantine mandated by New Mexico. If Kaitlin and Torben tried visiting now they would not only have to quarantine here for 14 days, starting August 1 they might have to quarantine in Massachusetts for 14 days after they returned home. The news rules will be:
- Complete the Massachusetts Travel Form prior to arrival, unless you are visiting from a lower-risk state designated by the Department of Public Health.
- Quarantine for 14 days or produce a negative COVID-19 test result that has been administered up to 72-hours prior to your arrival in Massachusetts.
- If your COVID-19 test result has not been received prior to arrival, visitors, and residents must quarantine until they receive a negative test result.
- Failure to comply may result in a $500 fine per day.
The lower risk states are Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Kaitlin and Torben already skipped their annual July visit, and things will no doubt have changed a lot by the end of the year, when they usually come for their second trip. We will have to see. If we all stay well we have no complaints…thank goodness for the internet and phone calls.
July 24, 2020
Our human brother-in-law and family are in Texas too. We haven’t seen them in a very long time. We hope they can visit soon too. Tough times for sure, but thankfully, yes, we have internet, facetime, and zoom.
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
It’s sad, and we still need to count our blessings. Presumably in the fullness of time….
Yes, thank goodness for Facetime and Zoom! Of course, they cannot replicate a hug.
I agree with that!
I wasn’t alive during WWII but the way people are acting and re-acting makes me wonder how this generation and even others would have managed then.
they had no computers. and they had old phones. and I don’t even think they had tv’s. but they got through it without going crazy! and it was far worse than just having to stay home or wear their little cloth masks. they had loved ones in countries halfway across the world being SHOT AT!
I’ve read some American blogs lately that were going into a melt down because they couldn’t go to the BEACH!!! it’s just kind of amazing to me.
I don’t think they would have survived being really hungry or in dangers like the London Blitz.
just on my way to bed and stopped back by. my words above sound so grumpy! that’s what I get for watching the news. our officials are arguing and carrying on. it seems they don’t want to irritate the public. and the governor has never supported wearing a mask (and he has the virus … though he says he feels “100%!” and still won’t wear one.
and our own city has a ‘united’ group that is trying to get rid of the mayor!
what a mess it all is. I’ll be going back to NOT watching it!
I think Churchill would have his work cut out for him with this group!
xoxo
Human nature is like the rest of nature, it’s not always pretty. 🙁
there many differences now – WW2 and even WW1 – didn’t have instant telecommunications… and we possibly don’t know much about what “they did or didn’t do” other than here-say or similar.
What we did have during my growing up period in the 50s’ was vastly different, we played with toys in the back garden/yard, we made things from the shed like trolleys, road ancient gearless bicycles, we had some type of musical instrument in the house, the wireless radio had serials and stuff like that…some had cameras, which required you to get your film developed; some enterprising people created their own dark room… and you grew vegetables in your yard.
I’m sure my folks had a phone, but it wasn’t easy to make calls especially if you were on a “party line” of course a letter had to be mailed, and if it was going overseas – it went via a cargo ship as did packages…- I remember Mother sending Molly a Christmas present, posted it about 2 months before Xmas – took 6 weeks by ship to the UK…often Molly got it in mid January!
NOW: I must admit, I’m not truly up with “how to online…” but what I now do is quite enough for me. I didn’t mind during our lockdown that I couldn’t get to the “beach” – my suburb doesn’t have a real sandy beach…but I did want to dearly GO, but still haven’t…have no idea why, not.
Much for me has changed, although making art/food hasn’t necessarily changed it’s just got different…”winter season” doesn’t help in some ways…
I hope by then they can visit, but like you say, we will survive…
Yes.
With all the restrictions it’s hardly worth it to go anywhere
Hopefully the restrictions will cut down on the deaths. They’re a small price to pay.
wow…that certainly going to put the skids on taking a trip to another state…I know there are van/RVers who are doing a lot of travel in their own states; some have never really taken time to see their own places.
it’s different in a way here – because you can travel to another island here with no restrictions if you were a/here for Level 4 or b/spend 2 weeks in gov’t quarantine and not get sick in the process. That does mean anyone could travel here for a holiday, just have to kick up their heels in a nice hotel with a whole lot of restrictions before they set off view my world…
aspects of our tourist industry thought they might suffer (yes some have) but others have offered local incentives and the areas are doing almost as well…so many people (doesn’t matter where in the world) think that “going overseas is so much more exciting than home turf”
I wish I was feeling like “travelling…” I dream about it, especially when contacts go away (usually with a car) but I just can’t seem to get my head around it completely! Keep thinking we will get a 2nd wave and I’d be trapped someplace/not home…
That concern about getting stuck somewhere could happen. Kaitlin’s concern is that she could get infected while traveling and make us or Torben’s mom sick. At the moment it’s not worth the risk.
Yes….I’ve often thought what we did before computers & texting on phones during times of crisis. Let’s pray for the 2nd trip, all will be well for their travels.
There’s no predicting what the end of the year will be like. Fingers crossed.
The massive second wave in the States is quite extraordinary. Clearly Trump is completely out of his depth and has little idea how to get the virus back to a manageable level.
The virus is pretty much under control in the UK, but extra measures have been introduced like having to wear face masks in English shops.
As Tammy says, why are people nowadays such wimps compared with what people had to put up with during WW2? Why is people’s mental health suddenly so weirdly fragile?
Trump doesn’t feel it’s his job to stop the virus. His main goal is to get re-elected, and he would like the economy to recover before the election. Because that may not happen he’s now turning to scare tactics…Biden will ruin the suburbs (by wanting desegregation) and the protests mean we need to crack down, have more law and order, so he’s sending in federal troops, etc..