With the virus restrictions, I'm hoping they'll let us go boating soon. I think it's BS. Who can we possibly harm by using our boat? It's just me and the wife. We won't even come close to being in contact with anyone else. Especially since we only boat during the week. We never go on the weekends. Too many crazy, impolite and just plain ignorant people on the weekends.
It's not person to person contact of you and your wife in the boat that's the problem. It's if you run into trouble (anything from a medical emergency to engine problems to running out off petrol. We at -32,116 last week has 2 guys pulled out of the water 5 kilometres out to sea after their 5-1/2m boat was capsized) and call for assistance. That brings many people together, mostly volunteer, and as such, more elderly people, to organise a rescue boat to go and drag your sorry ass back to a ramp. That puts at risks the most vulnerable people. That's why they have restricted/banned boating. And I totally agree with it!
Are we openning too early? At this time 13 states have decided to do away with several restrictions that have been in place. I want to see the curve fall not just flatten. ....
Simple answer is 'yes'... Too early.
Australia has done very well with not just reducing infection rates, but stopping it dead.
At -32,116 we had VERY tight restrictions, and they were enforced with (up to) $50,000 fines, jail time or both. One guy was caught 'escaping' a 14 day quarantine and was sentenced to 6-1/2 months in jail.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/...15-p54jzq.html
It was only after we had NO NEW CASES for over a week that they have now (just at the beginning of this week) relaxed a FEW of the restrictions. They'll be monitoring for about 3 weeks, then will look at relaxing a few more. But it'll be a long process. Anyone who thinks they can go back to the way things were in January/February is kidding themselves.
To see photos of crowded boat ramps and shopping malls, if just one person has the virus and is contagious, it'll start all over again, and if that happens, restrictions will be longer and tighter, they have to be.
On the good news front, -32,116 will be the first place in the world to start human trials of a vaccine. Using a synthetic simulation of the real virus it should evoke an immune response to produce antibodies. Here's hoping....
