"As Covid-19 winds down . . ." Topic

In my little corner of the USA, the cashier stands at stores have plexiglass sheets up to protect customers from staff with Covid-19 and vice versa. However, I've been told at several shops that they think the plexiglass will come down this summer. Now the guy at the tire shop is a model railroader, and he already has devious plans to latch onto the plexiglass shields at his store to put around his layout to protect it from little fingers. Even so, there will probably be a lot of unwanted plexiglass this summer.

This raises the question of what we could do with it for wargames. I already have some I made into cannister cones, more or less like the wire ones you see in The Wargame. Anybody have other suggestions?

Yes, I will probably want to spray the plexiglass down with Lysol or a similar disinfectant before using it.

Grelber

Whack the guy across from you when you catch him cheating at your next game.
Disinfect afterwards…

You can put over a board game to protect the map and play on top of the plexi. That's what we did back in the 70s. We played AH's Luftwaffe and we would mark the cities that were bomb with a marker and the end of the game you just wipe them off. Don't know what you would use them for with miniatures.

1.) Build a three-dimensional chess set. link

2.) Use it to create a "flight layer" for a game involving both ground units and air units. You'll need to make support posts, and will probably need a smaller tabletop size, put it could be an interesting game set-up.

4.) Cut it into bases, markers, etc..

5.) Make futuristic "glass" buildings or terrain.

6.) Go hog wild and buy a Glowforge, then laser-cut the plexiglass to your heart's content to do any of the above.

Buy them cheap/dumpster dive. Wait for the backlash spike. Sell for a profit.

Is COVID-19 winding down?

Where?

It isn't in India, and we are having spikes in parts of the UK of the so-called Indian Variant. It looks as if the rollback of the restrictions on 21st June might be delayed.

Winding down? It certainly doesn't look like it from where I am.

Well, it is here in US. Positivity rates are down, hospitalizations are down, deaths are down. Sorry it's not the same in your neck of the woods.

Texas is 100% open and COVID has crashed.

Well, it is here in US. Positivity rates are down, hospitalizations are down, deaths are down.

Ah, just wait…..!!!

It will never wind down. Governments have discovered the perfect way to manipulate and control their people for the foreseeable future. I don't see them giving up any of the power they have now. What governments have ever done that?

I'm with Old Contemptible and Etotheipi. Two great ideas.

Lets not try to compare India and the remainder of the world as regards health care, I mean this is country that still contends with Cholera, tuberculosis, and probably several other diseases that most of the the rest of us eliminated several decades ago.

I'm with Brian Smaller

The disease was real, the remainder was largely a hoax. Some one referred to it as a "plandemic" which is an acurate description.

Actually, for a minis game, I have an idea that I haven't executed because of … money, time, lazy, etc.

Playing 28mm or 15mm on a 3'x3' or 3'x4' board, have a plexi overlay on above it somewhere between 18"-2'. Draw a 1/3 size box in the center of the plexi (1'x1' or 1'x1.3'). Play a 1:144 air engagement on top of the plexi in support of the 28mm/15mm game beneath. The small center box is "overflight of the battlefield", the only place where the two games can affect each other – CAS and AA engagements.

Great idea!