On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 10:02:06 PM UTC-4, Bojack J4 wrote:
U guys need a glance into the ICU to see people fighting for their last breaths on ventillators before thinking about playing with your toy airplanes in large, interstate national gatherings.
Wimbledon cancelled.
NBA cancelled
Olympics cancelled
SSA sanctioned contests??? Go for it!!!

I had planned to fly two nationals this year plus a couple of regionals. I'm almost 69 years old (young for the soaring crowd) and in great health but who knows how much longer I can do this? I want to fly.

But I'm sitting on the ground right now not because I can't get a tow. Or because I'm fearful of being exposed (I still go to the grocery store occasionally and I ran 10+ miles over the weekend and encountered--at a distance--a number of people in the area). It's because of the small chance that, whether on the highway to or from, or at the airport, or in flight, or on a retrieve from landing out something could happen that would send me to the ER.

The odds are minuscule (of needing ER care, not of my landing out). But if I were involved in an accident, I wouldn't be able to justify my refusing to stay at home for a few weeks or even months because I wanted to pursue my hobby, albeit one that has been central in my life for 55 years.

Others are making different calls, and that's fine, I guess. I'm not even sure my position is entirely logical. After all, I could get hit by a car while running and need care, although at least here where I live the local hospital has a sign on the door warning that anyone with C19 symptoms will be turned away. I assume that's to reserve their facility for non-Coronavirus-related emergencies and procedures, the latter of which have been cancelled at most places in the area.

But across the river in NYC where my daughters live, bodies are piling up in refrigerated trucks. Down in Florida where my elderly parents live, I know that if Covid-19 breaks out in their assisted living facility, I've likely already seen them for the last time.

So, yeah, I'm good with waiting a reasonable amount of time to see if a miracle cure appears and not just the death rate but the load on our healthcare system drops dramatically. The proposed plan sounds workable.

It's just a game.

Chip Bearden
JB