These are very difficult times for everyone and I would like to take this opportunity of thanking everyone who contacted us by email and Twitter to show their support for MEI after our postponement of three of this year's conferences.
We really appreciate your kind comments, and can assure you that MEI will ride the traumatic times which lie ahead. We are a small family business with no employees or other overheads, so we feel for those small businesses who are not so fortunate, particularly those which depend on conferences such as ours - hotels, B&Bs, restaurants, caterers, pubs etc. Many of these will no doubt find it difficult to survive this unprecedented crisis.
Our first conference to fall by the wayside was Comminution '20, and we greatly appreciate the support of our sponsors, all but one staying with us for the rescheduled event, Comminution '21.
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The next few months are going to be hard on all of us. Following government advice, Barbara and I, in the over-70s group, are considered vulnerable and are now in self-isolation for what might be several months. During that time I hope to find enough interesting news to keep the blog ticking over, and who knows the enforced hibernation might sharpen my creative skills, meagre though they may be. I'm reminded that while being quarantined for the plague, Shakespeare wrote King Lear, and in the Great Plague of the 17th century Sir Isaac Newton took his family off to the country, and while away from Cambridge developed his ideas on calculus. So you never know!!
Indeed, Barry - Isame goes for Einstein working as a patent clerk, he had plenty of time and headspace to think about and develop his theories.
ReplyDeleteTime to contemplate... Which bottle will keep or should I drink it now.. Look after yourselves..
ReplyDeleteThanks Nick. Will catch up with you and Flee when this is all over. May be some time yet!
DeleteYes, many across the Globe are affected. I appreciate your Blog showing how to think positive in times like this. We are definitely going to miss the Reports on Conferences and I am sure things will get back to normal--just bowing our head to Nature,
ReplyDeleteAll the best Barry and Barbara.
Thanks TC. Look after yourself
DeleteI happen to read the above and noted the positive way we looked at it.
ReplyDeleteBut now some questions are coming to me--we are supposed to have cutting edge of sciences and technologies in all the area one can think of. We have missiles,interceptors and advanced warning systems for all kinds of disassters. Satellites spying on what is going on and likely to come.
Still no remedy and full underatanding of what is happening.
WHERE DID WE FAIL?