How Much Experience Have We Had?

kelpdiver wrote:

PHXAZCRAIG wrote:

Now I wonder if Reef House will survive, and it I will ever dive again.

pretty sure the latter will be true, Craig. I lost my Anilao trip for last week, and my French Polynesia trip in 6 weeks is looking tenuous, but we should get past this collapse. If you can get excited enough about Baja, that's drivable from Phoenix.

no guarantees on Reef House - this is a bigger blow than a cat 4 hurricane - it could come down to the owner's age and financial endurance. But others will emerge. It is healthy to have a few favorites as protection.

The problem as I see it is a collision between advancing age and potential self-quarantine periods to travel to other countries.   I see this virus circulating over the next 4 years, and the entire world shutting off from itself to fight it.   Pockets of safe areas will become armed refuges, a bit like those apocalyptic plague movies (28 days later?) where strangers are driven away from armed camps by force.   Meaning "nobody gets in here without a 2-week quarantine at best".

If I can't travel out of the country to dive, I may be too old - or dead - before I get the opportunity again.  I admit my outlook on the future is influenced by watching my seemingly-invincible wife's health collapse overnight when the effects of pancreatic cancer provided the first symptoms.  A lot can/will happen in four years.