Contingency Planning - Return to the days of old?

[mbalexander]

Time for my rant, which you will all take as you wish.

everything in life is risk management. Can I get killed trying to get to OSH? A dual engine failure crossing Lake Michigan or running into an embedded TRW that popped up since the last ADS-B weather refresh? Am I going to catch dysentery and die a truly horrible death, or wish I had, from eating at the food court? Is the guy below me in the airshow stack going pull up right in front of me?

These are all risks. We recognize the hazards, assess the likelihood of the hazard being realized, the probable effects, and make decisions on managing that risk. What we cannot do, individually or as an organization, is let fears control us. Much of what I see and read is based on fear, not reason. Two months ago we had no idea where we would be today and none of us know where we will be two months from now. Or even one month from now.

Your chances of dying from the flu are still greater than dying from the current politically correctly named virus. That does not downplay that risk, but it is just one more risk to assess and manage. Along with the risk of driving or flying to OSH, there is the risk of a tornado killing you in your tent in the middle of the night or becoming violently ill from something else you are exposed while there.

I am not saying to go ahead or cancel. If EAA as an organization decides to go ahead, it is still an individual decision whether to go or stay home...as it is every year. I am simply saying that these decisions need to be based on rational risk management, not fear of the unknown.

Final thought. To borrow related concept. An airplane in the hangar is safe, but that is not what airplanes are for.

I couldn't have said it better myself. GOOD ON YOU!!

Ron, the numbers are being skewed. I'm reading, seeing, and hearing that if someone dies, no matter what they died from, if they had covid symptoms, they're reporting that they died from covid.
There again, I say if you're "afraid" to go to OSH for any reason at all.......DON'T GO.