Dogon: Thank you for that. A very reasoned and informative response to my query. It's a hard thing for me to balance the freedoms that I consider to be my birthright with the harsh realities of this current challenge. You also seem to be privy to more credible facts about this lock-down than most are. The endlessly shrill (and perhaps destructive?) response from most of the media outlets seem to be the worst part of it for me. It somehow makes me want defy those perfidious twits or...at-least act to defend those freedoms, even if only symbolically. I will re-think my plans.
You're more than welcome. I've spent quite a bit of time attempting to separation facts from fiction over this whole mess & sometime feel the need to share the insights I've learned about it.
We've all probably had to change or modify lots of plans lately. In the past two weeks I've had an elective surgery cancelled, have been in the loop for cancelling a field trail that was scheduled in early April in South Dakota, but the biggie was making the heart wrenching decision to call off the planned big family blow-out party celebrating my mothers 90th birthday yesterday. We had a hall rented and there were several family members scheduled to fly into town for the party. It was a tough decision, but the correct one. We did mange to pull off a small family gathering out in the front yard while making sure to keep plenty of distance from each other. It was enough to bring tears to Mom's eyes!
