Blue Mountain - COVID-19 Update

[toast21602]

44 minutes ago, Kyle said:

Oh for sure, I already know of a few people that had planned to have a bonfire or something anyway instead of going to the bar. 
 

 

Bonus: Bonfires are more fun than sitting in a bar.

[Justo8484]

fire pit in the back yard would be great on thanksgiving, if it wasn't supposed to rain all day. gonna need to get some bourbon, i think

[Schif]

We usually wind up on the back deck around the fire pit on all major holidays. The weather will either put a damper on that or I might be tasked with putting up a tent over it. We'll see how it goes. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Seems like a good year to roast chestnuts over an open fire. 

[Mixilplix]

I wonder how all the travel bans will affect resorts that employ a lot of people from out of the country.....

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

21 minutes ago, Mixilplix said:

I wonder how all the travel bans will affect resorts that employ a lot of people from out of the country.....

They’ll be massively short staffed.  It’s been discussed on the Teton Gravity forums.  

[Kyle]

1 hour ago, Mixilplix said:

I wonder how all the travel bans will affect resorts that employ a lot of people from out of the country.....

OCMD had a huge problem with that this summer, restaurants and other stores were closing for full days just to give their employees a break because they were so understaffed 

[tarponhead]

OCMD had a huge problem with that this summer, restaurants and other stores were closing for full days just to give their employees a break because they were so understaffed 

H-2B visas shortages has crippled seasonal businesses since tRUMP began his reign 4 yo


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[Kyle]

7 minutes ago, tarponhead said:

H-2B visas shortages has crippled seasonal businesses since tRUMP began his reign 4 yo


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Ok. We’re talking about Covid though 

[toast21602]

Just now, Kyle said:

Ok. We’re talking about Covid though 

Correct. A shortage of season workers from abroad + seasonal workers from abroad who are now banned from travel = insurmountable shortage of seasonal workers.

[tarponhead]

Ok. We’re talking about Covid though 

Which workers are subject too


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[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Correct I read a story that in southern Maine shore towns and resorts they were very short staffed and not just this last summer but the last few years. 

 

Edited November 24, 2020 by GrilledSteezeSandwich

[enjoralas]

Already with the talk about the good old days . . .

[PSUFrankenstein]

16 hours ago, NMSKI said:

Maybe instead of swimming in schools they were social distancing?

maybe they were social distancing from me - that could be the problem.

 

The schooled up fish are super spreaders - no masks, no social distancing (video looks better on the HD setting)

 

 

[PSUFrankenstein]

My daughter's day care just had a confirmed COVID case yesterday.  They are shutting down that classroom (1-2 year olds).  Kids there are separated by age groups and all the groups are pretty much isolated...but it's probably only a matter of time before her classroom shuts down, especially with the holidays coming up

[theprogram4]

Had hockey last night after the 2 week county mandated Covid break.  We were required to wear masks even while on the ice, which was surprisingly not bad, by the half way point of the 1st period I barely remembered it was there.  

Edited November 24, 2020 by theprogram4

[mbike-ski]

45 minutes ago, theprogram4 said:

Had hockey last night after the 2 week county mandated Covid break.  We were required to wear masks even while on the ice, which was surprisingly not bad, by the half way point of the 1st period I barely remembered it was there.  

Do you wear a cage or shield? (fogging issues?)

[theprogram4]

2 minutes ago, mbike-ski said:

Do you wear a cage or shield? (fogging issues?)

I wear the cage (amazing to me that each team has that one guy who still wears an open face helmet)

i didn’t notice the mask at all on the ice, but did notice it on the bench. 

[Kyle]

1 hour ago, theprogram4 said:

I wear the cage (amazing to me that each team has that one guy who still wears an open face helmet)

i didn’t notice the mask at all on the ice, but did notice it on the bench. 

That guy was me until 6 of my teeth decided they no longer wanted to be in my mouth and wanted to be removed via hockey stick 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

County numbers. 

[Schif]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

County numbers. 

I'm finding the uptick in cases in the northern tier very interesting. For the longest time those places were at 0 or 1 to 3 cases and now you're seeing slightly higher numbers. I wonder what changed up there. I have to guess that it's a combination of relaxed restrictions and probably higher testing but realistically the way of life for people in the most remote and rural places in Pennsylvania hasn't changed that much throughout this pandemic. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

One of the local bars has a 230pm-430pm happy hour today.  

[Schif]

6 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

One of the local bars has a 230pm-430pm happy hour today.  

Are you going to host happy hour at the hotel house? 

[JFskiDan]

6 minutes ago, Schif said:

Are you going to host happy hour at the hotel house? 

Saltyann doesnt drink.  

[AtomicSkier]

5 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

Saltyann doesnt drink.  

False.  I've seen him drink. @saltyant