@Gordon Nichols posted:You know, Bruce, my wife and I were in LA/Anaheim during the LA Lit show last Feb. and I kind-of thought of attending while we were flying out there. Then I thought the better of it and about the Covid thing and talked myself out of it. We kept to ourselves, for the most part, or with people we trusted.
Just this past week, the researchers at Harvard Univ. doing social contact tracing on an international biotech convention held in Boston last February have determined that, from that conference, alone, spawned roughly 300,000 Covid cases - and still climbing as it continues to spread.
I suddenly felt pretty good about not attending the LA Lit show!
My buddy and his girlfriend, both of whom work in convention/show business in Las Vegas, both contracted C-19 early on. Feb, I think. They are pretty certain the early Las Vegas hot spot was created by one or two people from the Midwest that were high mucky-mucks at that convention. Both had recently traveled from China, my one friend, a sound guy, had interacted with them both on several occasions, being up close and personal putting wireless mic transmitters on them.
Talking with them is what put the fear of God in me early on. He described it as being "the sickest I've ever been in my life." And just when he thought it was over, it would hit him again like a ton of bricks again. 6 weeks virtually incapacitated, all told.