So for now, look at July and beyond and HOPE that we will be back to some sense of normalcy when it comes to attending races. In the meantime keep an eye on Twitter, Facebook and all of those other fun sites to see what your area tracks are up to and whether or not those May and June events are go to happen and under what circumstances.
One thing that I do like is that I have several options of races to attend coming up over the next two weeks, something that I never thought would have been possible back in mid-April so I am going to consider that to be very positive with hopes that the trend will continue.
Perhaps the biggest surprise came last night when the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the stay-at-home orders and right away a couple of tracks in the state stepped up and said that they will race this weekend. While that is all well and good, as race fans in any state let's continue to do our best to mitigate the virus by washing our hands frequently, maintaining distance from those that you do not live with/did not travel with and by all means if you are feeling sick at all or even have a slight fever, stay home!
Yes, I know that many carriers are asymptomatic and that you never know who might have it or who they might be infecting, no need to message me. My thoughts remain the same, make your choices based upon your own situation and your own risk tolerance. I completely respect anybody who decides to stay home right now, but in the same light if I choose to go and take all of the precautions that have been advised, you should respect my decision as well.
It is great to have some choices over the next two weeks, now if Mother Nature will cooperate! Two possibilities on Friday, three on Saturday and even one on Sunday for this coming weekend. I thought that I would be making a road trip to Osborn, Missouri, for the World of Outlaws Late Models on Monday night, but the Outlaws pulled the plug on that one due to the Friday/Saturday weather forecast for the show down at Pevely.
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| It will be nice to see the sunset over turns three and four at Osky again soon! |
Both of my Wednesday night options (Oskaloosa and Stuart) are back in action on May 20th and then there will be even more to look at over the Memorial Day weekend. In fact it was just announced that the Sprint Invaders will get their season opening event in at 34 Raceway on Sunday May 24th with details to be announced soon.
I definitely have Sunday May 31st marked on my calendar as Jason Goble will move his Quincy Raceways operation over to the Randolph County Speedway in Moberly, Missouri. Perhaps they could dub the event "A Tribute To JB", or something even more colorful as the state of Illinois continues to be locked down based upon the statistics from Chicago and its suburbs.
Speaking of statistics again, I just had to chuckle this morning when ABC News once again made the point during a story on virus testing that 9 million Americans have been tested thus far "and that is less than 3% of the population!" Okay, so not trying to sway you one way or another here, just doing the math, but if 9 million is less than 3% of the population that would mean that the current count of Positive cases according to Worldometer at 3:43 p.m. on 5/14/20 of 1,450,366 is actually 0.4382% of the population.
AND, now stay with me here for a second, keep in mind that the "number of positive cases" is an accumulating number. It doesn't go down, it just keeps going up until there are no more new cases, and within those numbers are people who have recovered and are back to living their life to as near normal as one can get right now. Someone like ABC's own George Stephanopolous who tested positive in April, never really had any symptoms, and is now back on the set each morning instead of sheltered at home.
So, if you look at the number of "Active Cases" right now in the USA that stands at 1,039,842 which means that 0.3142% of the population currently tests positive. And, to state that number in another term, that would be 3 out of every 1,000 people. That count can go up or down depending upon how the virus is tracking and it is that statistic that should be watched closer for trends.
Anyway, just taking a look at stats as they stand. You can interpret them in the manner that you wish.
Hey, so remember how we used to talk about how bad social media was when it came to racing? If you want to be entertained and disgusted at the same time, tune in to the Iowa Governor's daily press conference on her Facebook page at 11 a.m. tomorrow and watch some of the idiotic comments that scroll along on the right side of the screen. Thankfully they don't stay in view too long, so even though you often will say "Wait, what?" you will not have a chance to review to see if that last comment was really that stupid before the next one pops up.
If I had one wish right now it would be that all of the promoters in Iowa would be granted a fifteen minute conference call with Governor Reynolds to talk about how a Race Track isn't truly "open" until there can be fans in the stands. Something tells me that our state officials believe that the grandstands look like the Knoxville Nationals or the IMCA Super Nationals on every race night and, while we all wish that was the case, we know that on most nights fans would have no trouble maintaining some distance between family groups and other individuals. Hopefully that point can be made, and understood soon.
Back to other news for a moment, I am interested to see the balance of coverage between each of the following:
Brett Kavanaugh's Sexual Assault Allegations vs. Joe Biden's Sexual Assault Allegations (once again, no reason to message me here as I am not taking a side, I am just interested to see if the amount of media coverage and scrutiny is the same)
Mueller Report vs. Durham Report (see stuff in parentheses immediately above)
It seems like the common defense on both, assuming that the coverage is not equal, is going to be that these are just diversions right now, or we will be reminded about Trump's roster of sexual allegations. My theory is that if the person, or people who had ownership of the Billy Bush "grab'em by the" you know what tape would have released it during the Republican primaries there would have been a different nominee running against Hillary. Talk about a bad strategy, mark my words there will be a book written about that blunder someday.
Good grief, get me out of this political stuff and get me back to the race track so that I can tell you about the heroes of our favorite sport. Hope to see you on the Back Stretch again soon!
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