Hi @Brian1663 Kicked it off in Syracuse? Thats my neck of the woods (20 minutes away from Bearpath Lodging)! You can have my blessings as long as you don't bring any C19 back to the home of the Orange when you finally return, we don't want anymore of that crap, we have plenty already (every host you will be staying with globally agrees with me)!
@Helen3 can be a bit harsh but it may help to look at it with her eyes a second, she and a billion other people are locked down to try to stop this thing from spreading and it sounds like your thumbing your nose at them even if you actually started this venture long before the virus started spreading (Oct 2018). Please understand that she, me and so many hosts around the globe have literally lost the incomes we depended on because of the virus.
As for the threads beginnings, "survival boxes", its a great idea for a company like grub hub but not Airbnb! @Brian and friends are very busy doing some root maintenance and shoring for hosts around the world. Shiny objects and distractions from rebuilding the base of host services he and his friends created are not needed at this time- as you know, its all about the Base! Stay well, JR