Elephant in the room

aspeed wrote:Pretty mad that the Toledo show was cancelled.  Even the wife was going, and she hates anything to do with models. We normally do a bit of grocery shopping when we go to the US.  Milk, eggs and chicken are a gift there because they don't have price fixing marketing boards like we do.  Not much else is a deal with our devalued dollar, except glow fuel.  We had already stocked up on TP.  It is probably good to self isolate (nice way to say quarantine) We can empty out one or two of the 4 freezers.

I'm personally thankful to have this CEF forum in times like these. WE are truly all a family of modelers.

I really don't spend a lot of time thinking about it.

I live way out in the sticks of West Virginia, the only state so far that has no reported cases of Coved19. But, the world has gone mad, even this state is on lock-down.

I was supposed to meet a customer in Westminster Colorado (North of Denver) on March 12th, but the customer politely declined my participation, (official version: not wanting to expose me to a long haul travel from Central Europe in COVID-19 times...unofficial version: some of my US colleagues said it had more to do with the customer's concerns that a Hungarian, living next to North of heavily infected Italy (700 km-s away from here), I may bring the virus into the US with myself....)

I was first disappointed to cancel the trip also because Marriott Denver Airport charged my Mastercard with a 160 something USD room cancellation fee, but then relieved to have not traveled in the wake of recently enacted  US rules not allowing Europeans (except from UK) to travel into the USA ...with those rules in place during my stay in the US even my return home would have been in a jeopardy...(several Hungarian vacationers are stuck nowadays in Florida and California not finding airlines to carry them to Europe)

In the meantime the number of people infected with  COVID-19 is slowly increasing here in Hungary (some 50 out of a population of 9.7 million, so far with luckily only 1 person dead), with toilet paper also becoming unobtanium in many convenience strores, schools closed, borders sealed, Budapest airport closed, and a - so far - voluntary curfew in place...I work from my home office ...also made it possible to finish and maiden the Quickie 100 racer very soon after it was delivered by the postman  

We are all running into a frustrating 2020