The one thing I'd add to this is that while we as pilots very much have a "Pilot In Command" attitude when it comes to risk-taking, public health emergencies with highly infectious diseases do not limit the risks we take solely to us. One person can spread an infection to thousands of people in a matter of weeks though the bucket brigade of human exposure and that spread can reach those thousands before there is any evidence it happened because of the time lags of incubation. In addition to this pre-symptomatic spreading, this sucker spreads in half the people (and probably the majority of cases) asymptomatically - it's how we get so-called super-spreaders.

If you have your own motorglider assembled in your own hangar and need zero help to get airborne you are probably a minimal risk to others. If you need to go to the gas station to get to/from the airport, require help getting assembled, pushing out to the line, getting connected to the tow rope, need a wing runner (did you wipe down the wingtip?), help getting off there runway after you land, help with disassembly, need to pay your tow bill in person, etc. you increase your risk of infecting someone or of being infected by someone, so you can begins the bucket brigade anew. Of course this is on top of (and more likely than) the already mentioned risk of an accident or outlanding.

On top of all this, there are state and local restrictions on "non-essential" movements outside the home. In many cases (even if you can convince yourself that flying your glider is "essential") the rules restrict you from leaving the county where you live to do it.

There are reasons why these restrictions have been put in place and it's not to protect you from your own foolish decisions nearly so much as it is trying to protect the rest of us from your foolish decisions.

Here is a link to state-level restrictions. Towns and counties usually have their own. If you plan to go flying (or do anything beyond get food really), read up before you venture out.

https://www.nga.org/coronavirus/#glance

Stay safe. The sooner we squash this thing flat, the sooner we can all get to the next step - testing and wearing masks for 18 months!

My new glider was delivered to the US in July 2019. I'm looking forward to flying it for the second time in Spring of 2021. Patience!

Andy Blackburn
9B