DETROIT REGION, SCCA — Due to the threat posed to gatherings of people by the highly contagious and rapidly spreading COVID-19 virus this year’s TSD Road Rally School, scheduled for Saturday, March 21, has been canceled.
While this was a very disappointing decision to make, the rally school involves the gathering of 25-35 persons in a closed, indoor environment for 3-4 hours that is a public place. Consider what’s already occurred in China, South Korea, Iran, and Italy, to say nothing of Washington and upstate New York here in the states. In northern Italy, the situation has become so severe that doctors are having to choose who lives and who dies due to insufficient facilities, supplies, and personnel. This is not the common cold or seasonal flu.
Detroit Region SCCA doesn’t take this action because we’re trying to deprive individuals of their right to make their own risk assessments. Instead, we believe this is the right thing to do because we believe we all have a responsibility to do our best to work together to minimize as much as possible the spread of this highly contagious disease.
Fear not, the rally school will return in 2021!
