What will make you comfortable enough to show again?

That may be, but there are lots of possible causes of colic. Some common, others less so. And many times no apparent cause at all it just happens. Sometimes we can not mitigate all risk and just learn to live with it.

A better analogy might be strangles.

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A better analogy might be strangles.

There’s a vaccine for strangles

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That is marginally effective.
However, it is highly contagious, extremely unpleasant for the victim, and can have nasty lingering effects.

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I hate going to the grocery store so when I go I stock the freezers and pantry in hopes that I’ll never have to go again. So we went from February to May 20 without going to the store. The ds dropped off milk and I have laying hens so we didn’t go without, but I do get how someone could stay at home for months.

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I am a show organizer sitting on the fence trying to decide whether or not to hold my recognized competition later this year. I gotta say that it only takes one post by someone like Three Figs and I’m thinking NO WAY. If you cannot be considerate of other human beings and their health and well being, you are not coming on my property.

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That’s the problem in many venues, from classrooms to retail stores to major league baseball. One person can spoil it for the group, even if the group is otherwise compliant.

Being clear about the rules, posting them in writing in more than one place, and then … consequences for those that don’t follow them. As you say, if someone can’t stay on board, out they go. How to enforce that and manage the enforcement so that it is effective, and appropriate, is the challenge. It’s a whole other level of expected behavior.

It’s like a football coach’s Knucklehead Rule. The rules that no one but the knuckleheads need to have spelled out. Coaches have an evaluation process of when a team can absorb a knucklehead, and when the knucklehead has to go, for the good of the team. :slight_smile:

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I’ve decided I’ll be comfortable showing again when I can reliably get those pesky flying changes and pirouettes required in PSG! Probably some time next year…:winkgrin:

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Had the same thought, Figs. I figure this year will be a schooling year and then next season, we’ll have a vaccine (hopefully) and I won’t be afraid to go to some shows.

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At this point, I’d have to lose my “covid 15” to feel comfortable showing again. The risks of working from home.

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I’ve been out to a couple local schooling shows, have volunteered at a recognized, and will go out to the smallest, most local recognized show we have in 2 weeks. At these venues I drive in, park, tack up and get on at trailer, and ride. It’s all contactless and all the staff etc are masked. Back to trailer, untack, load up, and go home. I’m currently only doing one test so I don’t linger.
I wouldn’t stable, and my job at shows is pretty low contact anyway (announcer).
The only time I have felt at all at risk was this Sunday at a schooling show. When I got back to my trailer the folks next to me were trying to load their horse. 4 of them (which was explicitly not allowed by show rules), clearly not all living together based on their conversation, none of them masked. I should have asked them to put masks on but they were struggling to get their horse on the trailer. I had tied my horse and pulled my tack off before I realized they weren’t masked (mostly in the trailer or behind it when I arrived), so I just went around the far side of my rig and let my horse chill until they finally loaded up and drove off.
Some places are being more strict than others and I am making choices going forward based on what I’m learning from my experiences and those of others out competing.

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