If not a vaccine I’d be OK hosting a small game if there was a reliable and effective treatment for COVID-19. The way the situation currently is, it’s kinda a crapshoot if you get this and have any underlying conditions and are over 50 years old.
IMHO, you don't need to be over 50 to have complications from this. A 32 year old has already died from it.
I'm a 41 year old diabetic person, have had pneumonia, caught swine flu in 09, and have had 3 bouts with bronchitis that have left me permanently impaired. I've never felt 100%. Always 97%, or that kind of feeling.
I'm scared to catch it. There are also unknown factors such as, why it infects certain hosts in more menacing ways than another host with the same kind of conditions. We don't have a full understanding of the scope of this virus and why it infects certain people the ways it does. Narrowing it to a certain age group only worsens the "crapshoot". It will certainly be a crapshoot as long as there is no proven treatment or a vaccine.
To each their own. My father has diabetes and is much the same as me but older. God forbid I start hosting poker, become some freaky asymptomatic carrier and kill my dad inadvertently. If I'm not a statistic waiting to happen, he certainly is and my mom after him.
It's been tough to be forced to work. I've used Vacation, stat holiday time, excuses like my knee hurts, I don't feel well, and the like to get out of work. That said, I'm back to work this weekend and I can't get out of it.
I LOVE poker and chipping but F@&K poker and hosting until I can be sure it's not going to endanger my life of my family. I'm me though, just one person. Each person will have a view on how to handle this.
here by the end of May, God willing.
