Flying to the USA and shipping car

[moisheh]

https://www.toronto.com/news-story/10242786-canadian-snowbirds-find-creative-way-to-get-to-florida-w...

I saw this article a few days ago but you may have to register to see it. In case that happens I will post the abridged version. Snowbirds in Eastern Canada are shipping their vehicles to Buffalo or Detroit and flying via Helicopter or private flight. Then they drive to their winter homes in Florida. BC snowbirds could do this as well. There are companies that transport vehicles to the USA for American car dealers. I thought about doing something similar.

[Naio]

35-55% have people who get a mild case of covid and don't need the hospital, are still sick months later.

92% of people who are hospitalized are still sick, months later.

50% of people who have no symptoms at all have heart damage.

I'm in the first group. I had an extremely mild case of covid in March. I never even had a fever. Just a bit of a cough. I was able to keep working at home.

My doctor had me decreasing my steroid inhaler dose, phasing it out, when I had a relapse in July. I learned that a relapse in month 4 is very common. It made me worse than I was with the original illness.

8 months later, I'm on the highest dose of steroid inhaler. I can be out of bed an active for 1 hour per day. Then I run out of air and it takes me 23 hours to recover.

I'm alive, but it's not much of a life. I don't recommend it.

[pianotuna]

Reisender wrote:
It’s the utter disregard for the health care workers that gets me. Complete burn out in some places already. But hey, it’s their duty to look after me, even if I’m a moron and ignore their professional council.

X2

[Reisender]

It’s the utter disregard for the health care workers that gets me. Complete burn out in some places already. But hey, it’s their duty to look after me, even if I’m a moron and ignore their professional council.

[JaxDad]

azdryheat wrote:
99.6% survival rate.

Buy some new batteries for your calculator.

Even using round numbers there’s been 10.9 million cases in the US so far. 0.4% would then be 43,600 deaths.

Except there’s been 245,000 deaths, that’s 5.6 times more than 99.6%.

[Boon_Docker]

azdryheat wrote:
99.6% survival rate. Don't believe the hysteria. If you're afraid then stay home but the rest of us should be able to lead our lives, we'll even stay in your empty camping spots.

Actually it is 97.5% survival rate in the US, using the US stats.

[obgraham]

For some of us, avoiding death is not living.
This virus matter may well drag on for a lot longer. A year or two more would not be beyond belief. The development, distribution, and followup of any vaccine will take a lot longer than our politicians wish us to believe.
For those of us of a more advanced age, it may well be the best choice to go on about our affairs, taking practical precautions, and go on with our lives.
I see not a thing unethical about those who, following the laws, decide to fly down south and ship their vehicles. (Though if it were me, I'd just buy a beater down there.)

[moisheh]

Forget false statistics. When hospitals have zero icu beds and thereare bodies piled up in portable morgue the reality trumps your survival statistic. It is also getting worse by the day.

[azdryheat]

99.6% survival rate. Don't believe the hysteria. If you're afraid then stay home but the rest of us should be able to lead our lives, we'll even stay in your empty camping spots.

[pianotuna]

Tequila wrote:
Always amazes me how much effort people go to to commit suicide.

Great comment.

[Lwiddis]

Anyone coming here from Canada at this time is being foolish IMO. The US virus rates are skyrocketing! My GP is a personal friend and he is really nervous.

[Tequila]

Always amazes me how much effort people go to to commit suicide.

[Old-Biscuit]

Got monies to spend....you too can find a loop hole

[pianotuna]

Hi Moisha,

There is a thread on this here:

https://forums.goodsamclub.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/30166531.cfm

Personally I do not approve of this "letter of the law" approach,
and with 4 million active cases I'm not going south this year.