Well, I was entered for two events this weekend, but I'm canning them both. Both kids are ill and have been all week, and I've got a sore throat. Now does not seem the time to further stress my immune system with 400k and probably poor sleep.
It's not easy to make sense of this all at the moment. We have a plague coming, we know that for 80% of us it will just be mild, but for the 20% it wont, and as it progresses it will be horrific for both the 20% and the frontline medical staff trying to treat them.
How do we know this? Because we can look forward in time by looking at Italy now, China last month, and by next weekend, Spain.
So whilst the virus might prove mild for me it wont be for all, and to me mass audax events are causing many people to congregate in start locations, cafes and so forth, in many parts of the country to which they would not otherwise travel, potentially acting as vectors for the disease. Added to which, in control points they will be fatigued, breathing heavily, potentially sneezing from cold air, and perhaps not able to observe the level of hygiene they should.
If we are wanting to slow down the disease in order to prevent frontline medical services from being overwhelmed, doing mass start audax does not seem to be a helpful contribution.
For once, people might actually have to think beyond themselves rather than charging on regardless.
See you all on the other side. Wherever and whenever that might be.
