Time for Camping?

Originally posted by StephenH Part of South Korea's success is in how people interact. Hand shaking and hugs are not common. Also, if anyone feels ill, he/she wears a face mask. Both of those contribute to a lower rate of spread. What they are doing to treat cases, possibly much earlier than we start treating, is helping but we don't hear in the news how they are treating this. As for science, scientists can and do confuse cause with effect and later on have to change their theories. My citation for doctors (who may not be "scientists" per se, but are conducting research show that there is conflict in opinion as to the validity of hydroxychloroquine, which was my point. Low-dose use with antibiotic (alternative if Zithromycin is not tolerated) plus zink given earlier seems to cut the severity in most patients. Remdesivir may be effective if it reaches the latter stages, but the cost will be many times that of hydroxychloroquine, which is generic and inexpensive. Which one will the drug companies want to make? Right now, the major source of hydroxychloroquine is India. I wouldn't use duct tape. Perhaps Gorilla tape.

Originally posted by crankster78 Greetings:We are social creatures, 6.6 billion of us.  We cannot go backwards in time.

Yes, let's get back to camping or not, depending on your views of the situation. 

+1 to lostagain. Our society is less and less able to do anything for the good of the community. Many perhaps most don’t care. Others see everything through a political lens and ask only what any particular topic means in terms of furthering their side’s cause. Or even worse, others are only interested if they see the topic as damaging to the other side. Not only can we not agree on what to do about a problem, we can’t even agree whether or not there even is one. And forget learning anything from what other countries have done, we’re way to unique and special for that.

These are symptoms of civilizations heading downhill. One would have hoped that an outside apolitical threat like Covid would tend to unite us but it appears that the opposite is true. Some other nations have responded similarly but others have been able to set aside their differences and successfully contain this. Sadly for us, in my opinion those are the societies who are likely to be more successful going forward.

Back to camping or not. One thing this has taught me is that camping, even dispersed/boondocks camping, is a very public activity. I’m leaning toward getting out of camping and have recently started looking (online only so far) for a small, nearby yet isolated cabin instead. Nearby so access and disease exposure are less likely to be issues, I also expect Covid to be around for some time.

I don’t need or even want to travel, I’ve done plenty of that. And we llike the Appalachian mountain environment. We just want a quiet natural experience. We tend to go to the same few favorite campsites every time anyway. We no longer live by the Beach and need to evacuate for hurricanes, which was one of my reasons for buying the rpod to begin with. We’ll see but right now I’m leaning toward the not camping side of the equation.

thank you. I appreciate you doing that.