I said this somewhere else and I want to say it here now... you are at least as likely to get a nasty bug from being in the hospital as you are from meeting another CFer. They don't want to tell you this because they can prevent you seeing CFers, and they can't prevent you being in the hospital. As long as you use some common frickin sense (don't share nebs, for instance), you can still meet CFers. It's not 100% safe, but neither is anything else you do. And it's no more dangerous than going into the hospital.