The Magnus
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Touche - my bad.Ah, I did not realize that the Swedes use glasses...
Skål.
Touche - my bad.Ah, I did not realize that the Swedes use glasses...
Well, it depends on who you are. In ASL terms (remember - all postings on Gamesquad have to be relevant to ASL):If you go to any large gatherings before the vaccine is created, you are basically on a suicide mission.
Or on a murder one, as many asymptomatic carriers of the virus will contaminate other people.If you go to any large gatherings before the vaccine is created, you are basically on a suicide mission.
I do not know if I would say it that strongly but you really need to ask yourself, is it worth it? 5 days to play ASL and you 'might' come home with Covid-19. If you are unfortunate and catch it, none of us are spring chickens!If you go to any large gatherings before the vaccine is created, you are basically on a suicide mission.
So, which one should not attend?Well, it depends on who you are. In ASL terms (remember - all postings on Gamesquad have to be relevant to ASL):
- Those who definitely should not attend ASLOK in 2020, a 9-2 directed American Marine squad against a 300 lb Italian first-liner running in open terrain.
Asks an "Elder member" (no offence) .So, which one should not attend?
By your viewpoint, you were on murder mission one year ago if you left your home when you had a flue. Seriously.Or on a murder one, as many asymptomatic carriers of the virus will contaminate other people.
I am not a doctor, and I respect your view, but it could be that Covid19 is somewhat more "selective" in who to give serious respiratory problems. Time will tell, but "7 out of 10 doctors" tell my elderly parents-in-law to stay totally isolated in their house. No discussion. Whatsoever.By your viewpoint, you were on murder mission one year ago if you left your home when you had a flue. Seriously.
Unless you get the yearly flu shot. But that is always a partial crapshoot too.By your viewpoint, you were on murder mission one year ago if you left your home when you had a flue. Seriously.
Five years ago, I was deployed to lead my organisation's response to Ebola in Sierra Leone. Before I left home and my family, my employer asked me to sign a consent form that basically stated that "I accepted that, in the event of my death in this mission, they may not be able to repatriate a body". I signed that without any hesitation, while all of you were reading about it in the newspapers as some faraway African problem. I then spent five months in the Sierra Leone Ebola response and learned a good deal about real life epidemics. I would go again immediately if asked tomorrow.I am not a doctor, and I respect your view, but it could be that Covid19 is somewhat more "selective" in who to give serious respiratory problems. Time will tell, but "7 out of 10 doctors" tell my elderly parents-in-law to stay totally isolated in their house. No discussion. Whatsoever.
(7 out of 10 near relatives of mine are MD's or will be so within 9 months, it is hell to be one of the non-MD's the Christmas table ).
Or to put it in ASL terms, as is required in this forum. It is one thing to be a Finnish Fanatic squad running into long-range -2 fire, and a totally different thing if you are an Italian wounded 6+1 leader.
There is POSSIBLE, in the sense that they are permitted, and then there is DESIRABLE, in the sense that the question people should be asking is, even if it is permissible, should it still be held, given the risks. Lots of things are permitted but are nevertheless foolish or irresponsible.joking aside, I am absolutely confident ASLOK will be held in Cleveland this year.
I expect attendance to be down as some folks might consider attending a risk or are worried about the troubles of international travel, but I cannot imagine that gatherings of 50-100 folks would not be possible by this time of the year.
My tickets and hotel room are booked and I am going, pretty much regardless (EXC: if the event is cancelled).
As of a few weeks ago, about 40% of people hospitalized in the US for the coronavirus were between 20 and 54 years of age. This is not something that is just a problem for people who are "90 and of ill health." You are sounding like certain people here who minimize the virus for ideological reasons. And YOU are not the person you should be worrying about, frankly. You should be worrying about all the people YOU might infect, and what it might do to THEM.As a result of my humanitarian life, it is possible I have a different sense of risk from most people in the comfortable Western world. But I have studied the pandimic of COVID-19 and government's responses around the world. The disease itself does not scare me personally at all. If I were 90 and of ill health, I would certainly see it differently, but so would I consider the risk of driving on the road, getting a bad flue or falling down the stairs. I am sure your parents-in-law are doing the right thing.
I'm really disappointed at this reaction. You sound just like one of the uninformed people who decide to dismiss the opinions of public health experts all over the world, simply because it doesn't suit you. What's next? Climate change denial? Moreover, when you post garbage like this, you might actually influence someone else to ignore public health restrictions because they are all "cock and bull", and someone will end up hospitalized or worse.I will follow all the outrageous and non-scientific rules and restrictions that are imposed on me (closure of national parks - is that where you get a disease like this honestly), but I will not voluntarily go beyond these. For the coming months: I am certain most governments have no clue at all what their intermediate goals are or how they will relax the rules they imposed, before they wreck their economies. So all of them are going to graciously manipulate public opinion and information over the coming months to explain their rationale and "science". It will be mostly cock-and-bull, but most people will swallow it whole.
To put it in ASL terms I am a Heroic, Berserk 10-3 Russian/American, I do not Pin and I do not Cower and am immune to all SAN attacks, never take a PAATC and always Ambush, repair all support weapons on dr 1-5 [EXC: On a dr 6, roll again.], my IPC is 3, I am immune to all KIA results and all units Morale is increase by 1 with my command range which is <= 6 hexes.
Nope, check again. I told you...Did you forget stealthy?
Forgot the hero part; my guys usually just surrender.Nope, check again. I told you...