Of course it couldn’t be the riots

Err, I mean…the entirely justified protests of the death of a criminal that nearly no one knew about until he died….

So some authorities are admitting that it wasn’t, at least not entirely, the “reopening” of the service sector (bars and restaurants and stores and such) nor was it likely the Trump rallies that began the resurgence of the WuFlu….But that it was, indeed, at least mostly, fueled by the George Floyd riots protests. 

I doubt if the riots are the entire reason for the uptick (and that is all it really is, an uptick) in cases, but having several thousand people in a small area, rubbing shoulders and shouting (and breathing those disease laden droplets) is a very likely vector for transmission of nearly any disease.

expensive lunch

But the company and the experience was worth it. So not that expensive after all….

So Sunday started out with thunderstorm rapidly moving  through at about 7 AM.

But by 10 the skies were clear.

So, MC and I invited my parents to do the brunch at a Rochester Indiana restaurant called The Dam Landing. They do a really nice brunch on Sundays.

So we loaded up the parents and drove to the airport, opened the hangar and preflighted the 182.

Off we went. A short flight, a climb to 5500 feet to get above the clouds and turbulence, then a fast descent to the Fulton County airport. Other than a bit if concern with another plane and I trying to find each other visually so we did not occupy the same space at the same time (cooperation and communication in an untowered airport is a great thing!) the trip was fast and without incident.

We landed, taxiied, and then walked about a half mile to the smell of food.

The weather was warm, but not bad. About 75 degrees F and a nice breeze, so the walk wasn’t bad.

Sadly, they no longer do the Brunch (I wish they’d take it off of their website then), but the lunch food was very good.

Ribs, pulled pork, tenderloins the size of some counties in the east coast, and lots of fried potatoes. Waffle fries and tater tots….All garnished with cheese, bacon onions and other flavorful goodness…..
A walk back towards the airport with a stop at Sallies by the Shore…and ice cream place that makes their own ice cream offsite and sells it out a 1950’s era travel trailer. Damned good ice cream.

I was too hungry to stop and take pictures of the food or the ice cream, but I did take a photo of the ice cream trailer:

Then we started the plane, a quick bit of power to get it rolling out of the grass, taxiied to runway 29, a runup  and off we went.

We turned north and went towards South Bend, got Flight Following through their class C airspace and then turned west along the lake for some sightseeing. then a short trip back to the home airport.

2.4 hours of flight, 4 and-a-bit hours with my parents and MC (people that I value highly), and lots of good times had by all. Plus food. This is why I learned to fly…(of course the WuFlu and our government’s (over)reaction to it has put a crimp in those plans…)

Overall a beautiful day.

Question:

What, exactly did shutting the country down for 3 months do for us?

It flattened the curve….I get that. But if we are never gonna reopen, then what is the use?

As states reopen of course there are gonna be new cases. That was a given. Until we get a vaccine, or we reach “Herd Immunity” (which requires that people be exposed to this disease) then this is a natural consequence.

So what, exactly, was the plan? To keep everyone on lockdown until some indeterminate date in the future? (Nov 3 2020?) or simply until there is a vaccine ready for widespread distribution?

Or did the nations health authorities think there was gonna be some other result of allowing people to interact again?

I mean, the original “Lockdown” was supposed to “flatten the curve” and last for 2 or so weeks…..that morphed into 3 months….What was the plan for the future?

Were the preceding three months simply a waste of time and economic damage?

Cases! OMFG!

So Illinois is doing more and more testing per day. 

Te latest testing data is as follows:

so of the people being tested, 2.45 Percent test positive. 
Yep, 2 and half out of every 100 people actually have a current case. 
This is a terrible disease. So bad you have to take a test to determine if you are one of the two percent that even have it. 
And the National media is doing their best to keep the fear up, even though an examination of the data shows that it just isn’t that bad. But we gotta keep the fear up to keep things muddling along rather than surging back into the Trump economy that we need…. 
Kinda like the medical professional said to me a week or so ago when I asked when this coronavirus thing would end? 
“I dunno, I’m not much into politics”

So they could always just quit if they felt that strongly

You know, find another company that would put up with their Social Justice-ing bullshit and whatnot.

Of course, they’d lose all the BIg Union benefits of working for Ford as well.

But, hey, they are the ones that think that Ford should stop building police cars.
‘Cause that will help so much to fix the Racial Injustice that is so terribly prevalent.

What I would ask, has happened that these Union Workers think that they have the right to tell their employer what products they can and cannot produce?

One might think that, if Black Lives Matter so much (that they think that stopping the production of police cars would be any more than a symbolic gesture), that they haven’t done anything to stop the violence in Black sections of the larger (and often not so large) cites….I mean, so far this year the folks on the South (and now West) side of Chicago (pretty much 100% of African descent) have killed more black people in Chicago alone that all the police in the entire NATION have this year. .

But hey, stopping the production of Police Cars will help so much.

Here’s a hint: Stop breaking laws/ Best way to not get crosswise with the Po-po If yer arrested, stop fighting, that keeps the 5-0 from either tazering or shooting or otherwise damaging you. Keeps the Hickory off of your melon as well.  On other words, don’t make the situation worse.

Yes, I know, that’s “Raciss” of me to point out the above. But ask any cop, they’ll tell you, it is true. One racial group keeps fighting. 

So where is the uptick in deaths?

I mean, about 30 days ago we were told that there was a sudden increase in Covid “Cases” (there is some evidence that they are mixing positive antibody tests in with positive infection tests to get the increase in “cases”, but let us put that aside for a moment).

If we had all these “record number of new cases” that spiked about 30 days ago (oddly time coincident (15 or so days after) the George Floyd looting riots protests then would one not expect to see a rise in DEATHS from covid-19 about 30 days after the “spike” in cases? We should be seeing that spike in deaths starting about a week ago……and I can’t seem to find it. Nor can I find, with the exception of Arizona (Phoenix) a coincident rise in hopsitalizations to correspond with the spike in cases.

Either we have already killed off the folks who were most likely to catch and die from Covid, the virus has weakened, or we are being lied to about the sudden spike in cases. 

I know which one I would choose to believe. What say you? 

Oddly, the Media is downplaying

The fact that the guy in Seattle who drove the wrong way up a ramp, after going past police blocking the road (so that the protesters could  black the roads safely?)  and struck two women who were protesting something related to the George Floyd incident/Black lives Matter (“Black Femme March takes I-5”)….

The women struck were WHITE.
The man driving the Jaguar (obviously an oppressed minority person) was….black. The CAR was white, however, even if the driver wasn’t.

The driver…wan’t a white supremacist, not a Right Wing nutball.

But the media is trying the best to make you believe otherwise.

It ain’t news anymore, but propaganda disguised as news. 

Except when they don’t:

Black lives mattering, I mean….

Seems that young black child (8 years old) was killed in a  shooting in a Birmingham Alabama mall.

Seems 2 crowds of black males were having a “Verbal Disagreement” when they shot at each other. apparently hitting only 4 bystanders, all black (and missing their intended targets).

Black Lives Matter, sure they do, but only when the black life happens to be a criminal who is being restrained or arrested by the police. I don’t see any marches across the country for young Royta Giles, who was 8 years old. I don’t see any riots in protest, nor whites and blacks walking hand in hand and blocking streets in protest. I don’t see wall to wall coverage by the media either. I strongly doubt that there will be 6 funerals like George Floyd got, in different parts of the country, I bet no one donates a bronze coffin, and Al Sharpton won’t travel in to speak at his funeral. There won’t be any TV coverage of his memorial service, either.

I bet there won’t be any TV coverage of the funerals of Natalia Wallace from the South Side of Chicago, nor of the funeral of Vernado Jones….both of whom were killed by other black people in drive-by shootings over the Independence Day weekend. (Nor of the other 14 people killed on the South Side over that weekend either. I will bet good hard cash that Al Sharpton won’t speak at their funerals, nor will they get nice shiny caskets for their burials either.

So when DO  “Black Lives Matter”? Only when a white cop is involved? Enquiring Minds and all that.

(and that is only two cities….how many more “Black Lives” were ended by other black people this weekend? Where is the outcry?) Oddly, this doesn’t happen nearly as often in neighborhoods with other demographics.

Because Black Lives Matter:

That’s why they shot over 60, killed 13, 2 of the dead are children. 

Because Black Lives Matter.

It is interesting that Black people on the South side of Chicago have killed over 40 times as many black people as the police have this year in Chicago.
But Black Lives Matter.

Police are the problem. White people are the problem. It’s not the issues with Black society or culture that causes them to be losers in the lottery of life.

What a total bunch of horseshit.

I can’t wait for what happens in predominantly black neighborhoods in those (liberal) cities that disband their police departments. 

I tried this

(I saw someone else post about this a few weeks ago, and had to try it….)

Some clerks are just unable to think.

So there I was at the meat market.

Chicken legs on sale. I needed something to grill for Independence Day.

The young, mostly decorative, female clerk behind the counter asked if she could help me.

“yeah, are these chicken legs front legs or back legs?”

“I don’t know…But I’ll find out!” she said brightly

She went to ask an adult.

He looked at her if she was entirely stupid (which she apparently is) and then looked at me……I smiled. He laughed.  the said “he’s messing with you”, Chickens have wings in front”.

She wasn’t very happy once the light dawned.

I bought 4 lbs of drumsticks for the Independence Day weekend cookout. They cooked up nicely.

Thing is, she will likely be able to vote this November.
Scary.