A new sense of fiscal responsibility?

The greater majority of Americans haven’t run a household budget in their lives, and aren’t going to let this or some financial straits stop them from getting loose from the house for the first time in 90 days. Particularly the younger crowd that suffers from some impulse control issues and the illusion of invulnerability. Remember those packed beaches in Georgia, Florida and other locales? Yeah. That crowd is still out there in droves. The feel they deserve to get out and about, and want to do it right the heck now. Particularly with ripping deals out there at the various get away locations.

And we we don’t need them to sit with a full boat of strangers to get by until things really get back on track. Full cleanings, temperature checks empty middle seats and things of that nature will be enough to convince folks to half full our tubes. And that’s all we need for now.

Lets be honest, braving airports and semi packing an Airbus is really no different than asking your family to stop and use public gas station restroom 3+ times on their way to see the extended family, except that there won’t be any half assed social distance protocols going on at the Texaco potty stop.

Businesses are going to want to get back to work too, but they’ll be under the restriction of employees telling them to pound sand until they are assured of a high level of safety. And there a lot of things like conventions and other gatherings that are simply no longer feasible for the business traveller right now.

I believe there will be a massive surge of leisure travel once people feel that it’s semi safe to get out. Demand will probably taper a bit after that initial surge once the public gets that particularly itch scratched. Hopefully we’ll have treatments and therapies well on their way to fruition at that point.

But a trip down to Home Depot will show you that people aren’t overly worried about catching Corona. Nor are they suffering from a lack of will to spend money they may or may not have.