CurEvents is closing-tell me it ain’t so

Today I stumbled upon an announcement [via FluWiki] that the internet forum CurEvents is going to be closing its cyber door.

I read the entire four pages of the thread on CurEvents never losing the hope that at some point I would find that A0 had changed his mind or found an alternative to keep it going.  I’m sad to say that as of this writing I found no such post.

CurEvents was my second “cyber home”.  Like a few other first and second generation flubies I had started at the old Agonist Disease Outbreaks discussion forum and found my way to CE, then moved on from there.   

I learned a lot about the basics of influenza and self-empowering strategies at CE in those early days, things that if I were to go through the exercise of “connecting-the-dots” would lead directly to this blog and the “why” of why I maintain it.  It was CE’s own CanadaSue and her exuberant confidence that convinced me that I was not helpless in the face of the frightening unknown, that there were things I could… and should… do and know.  

Because of CE and CanadaSue I learned and acted upon that knowledge.  No words could ever express the sense of debt and gratitude I feel, or my sadness to learn that it, and the community to be found there, will be no more after August 31.  But having help found and run an online forum and then walking away from it,  I am a member of a small group who can (perhaps) understand why A0 is doing what he is doing. However, that understanding doesn’t keep me from holding out hope that before the deadline a different outcome will present itself.

SZ