38 states are “reopening”.

At best, we reduced (not stopped) the case doublings that occurred about every 10 days. Every 10 days in the larger cities, that is. Not so much in the more rural counties. Let’s face it, even in New York, it wasn’t the “Bodies Stacked in the Streets” we were warned about. Ever. Not even close to that….Even with the reported falsifying of cause of death (John was 200 lbs overweight and had a heart attack, but he had a cough, so it must have been Covid, even though we didn’t test, so put that as “Cause of Death”) …(and yes, they ARE doing that in some hospitals…like the ones in Gary Indiana, where I have first hand knowledge of this) and likely never would have been as bad as the doomsayers CDC forecast.
Not the 6.6 million they forecast, not 4.2M, not 3.6M, not 2.4M. not 1.3M (the forecast kept decreasing every week or so, didjanotice?), not 900K, not 750K, not 600K, not 450K, not 300,000 dead.

And what cost? Our economy is shambles, 1/4 of our people out of work, An additional trillion (so far) dollars of government debt. I thought the whole “Shelter in Place” thing is a stupid move….and yet, having started, we are now wasting all of that, by opening up again. This never should have happened from start. Now we have wasted all the damage to our society and our economy that we have (and will) endure.

If all of this chaos we have created has saved even 10.000 people from Coroanavirus/Covid -19, I’d be surprised. Here is the thing, reopening simply means that the rest of us, if we haven’t already been exposed, will soon be exposed. We really gained NOTHING with the debacle. If yer gonna get a case of Covid-19, yer gonna get it. Now or later. If not today, then next month or the one after that. The only way to prevent that exposure is to hide for the next year or so….until either Herd Immunity kicks in or a year or so after a vaccine is developed. And if you are one of the 7% or so that is gonna be symptomatic then yer gonna have that to deal with it. If you are one of the
And this “Pandemic” is NOTHING compared to others we have had in the US (or the world) in the past.  Back then, people simply went on as normal. The Markets didn’t tank, Nothing shut down, parties went on…. in the end it was a nothingurger….just a worse than usual Flu season. (Today, that 100K/1 million would likely, by population, be equal to over 300,000 in the US and close to 3 MILLION worldwide)

But the CDC and the Federal and State governments have this well in hand…..
Top Men are working on it:

**  Depending on the statistics one looks at, the high end appears (for Covid 19), even with Death Rate Inflation happening, to be somewhere close to 1.2% and the low end just above 0.78%).

HERE.

I mean, someday I might have a use for it….right?

My brother and I just cleaned out the shop we fixed things for our businesses in a month or two ago. We were there for like 19 years. It took WEEKS to get rid of some of the stuff.

We had replacement parts for stuff that had been obsoleted 15 or more years ago. And enough scrap metal to weld together a Titantic sized barge. Wood scraps to build an Ark….enough PVC and other pipe scraps to pipe from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi.
Plus a whole bunch of odds and ends. and other shit. Plus stuff and crap and things…

We won’t talk about my personal barn and garage…

So the folks on the South Side decided, since the weather for the evening was warm and dry, it was time for street parties. Ladies dressing up and shakin’ their shit. men watching, everyone having a drink or two….**

Hundreds of people, mostly black, chose to have street parties Saturday evening. Plus a whole lot of parties happened in private houses.  (and not a mask to be seen)

In other words, a normal Saturday night in Chicago’s South Side.

The mayor, of course, is PISSED that people are ignoring her. The cops are, effectively, helpless as they have conflicting orders….Citing people, handing out fines, is not a deterrent and they know that ignoring those fines won’t be enforced. And they really neither have the ability, nor want to, take hundreds of people to jail.

Guess what, Mayor Lightfoot: your “rule” only works when people are willing to comply. When hundreds, maybe thousands, choose not to, you got nuthin’.

An, of course, this is a large part of the reason that the Coronavirus is “affecting people of color disproportianately”. Other ethnic groups are (more or less) complying with the Social Distancing order…not so much that disproportionately affected segment of the population.

Of course, 7 people got shot in some of those parties, but that is expected on a Saturday night in the South Side.

(*Because Fuck You That’s Why) And Yes, I stole it from Phil


**One wonders how they can afford such nice dress and buy the liquor since we are told they are all poor to the point of poverty and all that….

But I got a checkride in a Cherokee 180 Saturday.

If flies nice, stall easily, turns sharper that my 182, climbs nicely (it isn’t very heavy) and other than the unique characteristics of the Hershey Bar wing, it ain’t a bad flyer. Pull the power back and it drops like a rock. Makes for easy spot landings.

Not an airplane I would buy, but it is fast enough that it could be a spare for me to use next time my Cessna is tits up.
I mean, It doesn’t carry much, and it is narrow and the front seat is too low and all that, but at the end of it, it is big enough for two people, flies just a tiny bit slower than my plane, and is a great way to get somewhere fairly quickly….

Sadly, no autopilot in this plane though.

But it doesn’t suck.

Plus I got 1.2 hours of flight time. 

Today, due to the Coronavirus debacle….

And the new patterns of behavior in our society.

One can walk into a liquor store at 11:00 pm wearing a mask and no one even blinks.

6 months ago, you might get shot for that. Today it’s normal.