How long are you willing to wait for Covid to be conquered before returning to doing things you enjoyed pre-Covid? Things like restaurant dining, travel, seeing family, sports, conferences, stadium events, casinos, etc.
Good question and one that has been on our minds.
As someone said, the calculus is not binary. There is no one “right” answer. Even for one individual or couple, there may be multiple “acceptable” answers. Many local maxima / minima.
As someone else said, it’s fundamentally a risk / reward assessment. However, risk and reward are multifaceted.
Risk includes the obvious (death), the less obvious (possibility of lingering sequelae), and the even more subtle (possibility of forgoing the last remaining chances for certain activities, in a limited lifespan; or the cumulative emotional impact of remaining physically “alive and healthy” while forgoing “what makes life worth living,” which is different for everybody).
So to answer the original question - our data point is that we’re considering, with heavy precautions, air travel later in the year. DW has a progressive condition, we know that our remaining time may be limited anyway, and we know our own priorities and precautions and emotional timbre.
And of course, stating our own data point is no pronouncement about what is too much or too little risk for anyone else. Everyone’s circumstances, priorities, etc. are different.
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