. . . politics can get very competitive and feathers can get ruffled.
But this is a thread that is supposed to be about the
coronavirus, not politics. I started it almost exactly a year ago with the idea that participants (including, at the time, two medical doctors who both, unfortunately, no longer participate) could share information and discuss the vaccines that were then beginning to appear—but its expansion into other
factual submissions relating to the virus is certainly reasonable; we all know that Internet forums tend to evolve.
What doesn't make sense is turning it into a forum for political arguments. There is another forum thread expressly for that. I've considered locking this one—as the originator, I'm under the impression it is my prerogative to do that—but in addition to my disinclination to shut down discussion, I still occasionally find some useful information here and I presume others do as well.
As photographers, amateurs like me as well as the pros, many of us probably are accustomed to traveling frequently, and this once-in-a-lifetime pandemic has really put a crimp in our plans. I hoped when I started this thread that it could help all of us figure out how safely to best resume our pre-pandemic activities.
I applaud the latest offers to cool down the rhetoric, but in addition to that I would encourage those who use this thread to instigate political debate or who can't resist the urge to respond to opinions which obviously have no arguable basis in fact to move their comments to the thread intended for that purpose.
