I don't do the Lorretta's races (although I would love to), and I certainly don't want to be a parade rain'er, but it looks to me that to believe that much of our usual annual events are going to still go forward with just date postponements is optimistic thinking at best.
The vast general public is still trying to wrap their brains around just how big and far reaching this pandemic issue is. And it's human nature to cling and hold on to our routines as though all is, or will be just fine.
This epidemic is larger and more catastrophic than anybody imagined. And the confirmed case numbers don't even remotely come close to accurately indicating the true extent of current infections and how far it's spread. And the medical professionals have been saying with absolute sober statements that we are already way, way behind on realizing and reacting. I agree that we'll get past all of this and get it behind us, but looks to me like it's gonna take us a year to do it. Even when we do get on the down side of peak infections, hospitalizations and fatalities, it's still gonna be a slope till it's gone. And then they are already uncertain about reoccurence's.
I truly do hope I'm wrong, but they will be leery about mass crowding events for quite a time.
