With major airlines’ wholesale cancellations of flights due to lack of pilots & attendants claiming omicron concerns ( how many are legitimately ill or just using covid as a bargaining tool?) , I’m concerned about many FUN attendees - both dealers & collectors -
having cancelled flights to Orlando Jan 3-6.
I’m not so concerned w my flight being cancelled 1-2 days beforehand but in being at the airport & then hearing my late night flight being cancelled & having to sleep over til the next morning on the terminal floor, and then?
Let’s hope this will clear up in a week but I doubt it.
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Update, it appears I was seriously mistaken.
Past weeks rate 13.7% and rapidly climbing.
I've not missed a winter FUN for over 20 years.
I will be speaking on Friday at 1:30 PM in room N320. The topic will be the early life of Abraham Lincoln leading up to the presidential election of 1860. Numismatic related items will include Civil War tokens and campaign medals that the Bell, Breckenridge, Douglas and Lincoln campaigns issued that were related to the major issues. I hope to see you there!
This is really cool Bill!!!
required to only quarantine 5 days for omicron will return to work much earlier
and airlines will “ catch up” by the time FUN rolls around in a week+.
I was very tormented until I decided. There probably won't be much in the way of coins for me there anyway. MANY dealers are now skipping the show I am hearing. Check with your dealer to see if they are going.
Its a mess. BUT we do have a right to choose whether to go and risk it or be safe.
I think that FUN would make an exception for anyone choosing to skip this year and not "punish" them. Besides being the decent thing to do, punishing safety conscious dealers would be bad public relations.