Hopefully, no engine issues, but that’s why I am gonna orbit the airfield…..
If all is good, then I will resume flying it for IFR training and then, as the country opens up, imma gonna start visiting people again.
But, a question: Is the transmission happening in the pants, while the folks are working?
It has been my experience that these plants often employ a large number of foreign (and often, but not always, illegal) workers. Often, to save money to send home these folks live very closely, like 4 or more people in a 2 bedroom apartment or trailer…often twice that density.
Yes, improving conditions at the plant is a good idea. But I would question if the plant is the vector for the disease transmission rather than the living and social conditions amongst the workers.
And since the CDC folks (based on their response to things and conditions at the beginning of this “crisis”) apparently can’t do their job, don’t seem to have much cognitive abilities, can’t connect cause and effect, and apparently cannot think, but merely react and follow orders, I cannot help but wonder if anyone has investigated the mode of transmission or are they merely Doing Something so they can appear to have Done Something.
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%).
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…
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….
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.
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.
Of course, things like THIS house party couldn’t have anything to do with their higher infection rate, could it?
My sources in the CPD tell me that, while this gathering of almost 1500 people on the city’s South Side was larger than most, they break up 10-15 such parties every night, more on weekends….Over and over and over. No one ever has any masks, they are packed shoulder to shoulder and there is no such thing as “Social Distancing”…. They (the cops) are told to do everything they can to not arrest people, as the city doesn’t want them in the jails…and the crowds know that, so they are even more uncooperative than usual.
Parties like this don’t seem to be happening on the west and north sides. Oddly, the rates of infection seem to be lower there too.
But it be the White Man’s fault. Always.
Have ya noticed the new meme?
“We Are All In This Together”.
Every ad, lots of signs…all saying The.Same.Thing.
Odd.
Much like the Social Distancing signage that popped up IMMEDIATELY in large retailers when the whole “Stay At Home” bit happened…..Almost as if they had been forewarned, ya know?
The longer this goes on, the more and more I think that someone is orchestrating things.
I’m not saying that the Virus isn’t real, nor that folks are not dying, nor that this is not serious….it is.
I am saying that, while I seriously doubt the effectiveness of the whole Stay At Home and closure of our economy, things are kinda funny…almost as if there is someone or someones generating some direction as to the government message….almost like a campaign to keep the rest of us following their lead and compliant. And the oddities in what business is closed or limited and what is not….Some stores are ok, others are not (besides grocery stores). While many businesses are closed and a “public safety measure”, one can buy lottery tickets face to face nearly anywhere. Some places where people mingle are OK, others are not….One can still buy items at a Home Depot or other home improvement store, but not at a nursery…unless the nursery sells booze, food or lottery, then it is an “essential” business…..Liquor stores are ok, but shoe stores are not…..Why are some stores ok when others, with the same conditions for “Social Distancing”. are not?
The whole economic bailout: Almost as if the destruction of the economy and the subsequent bailout were designed to make people expect the Government to help……and make us more dependent economically, and more importantly, to make us more psychologically dependent….and increase our deficit…
Mask drives, (even though we were told they didn’t work, yet now anyone NOT wearing a mask is regarded as a paraiah)……and the whole drive for folks to make, and then donate masks to “the unfortunate” or the “underserved members of our community”….And, oddly, despite the crying and moaning that they were going to run out in the “Next Few Days” no health care facility is without N-95 masks…..Odd, that.
Which leads to…
Funny, innit, how Nurses and Doctors are hailed as heroes, even though less than 10% will ever see a Coronavirus patient? (By the way, I do applaud the bravery of anyone who works with Infectious disease patients)…suddenly and yet simultaneously by all the Media…I have family that are in the health care field, and they are dedicated, but really, not heroes. If the Health Care Workers are Heroes, then so are cops, and firemen and, of course, soldiers….but not to the media (at least not currently)…
There are a lot of similarities in the New Social messages we see to those of the second World War, only the medium has changed (video, and Facebook, etc instead of posters and print).
And, of course, “It’s the New Normal”…which means that things will be like this for a while…at least someone thinks so and wants us to plan for that….and is telling us so we will become accustomed to thinking that way….
And now the Media is starting to push ‘Vote By Mail”…a plan which, as currently structured, will be an open invitation to massive fraud.
Almost as if someone is doing some kind of Social Engineering on a large scale. As if we are being herded….
Yeah, I like my tinfoil doubled over, shiny side out. So what? Doesn’t make me wrong, does it?
Not satire, which could, at times, be funny. No humor to mask it….not any more….
The mask is off,….this is full time Hatred, not even a bit of laughter or humor to mask it. Just full on, un-adulterated, complete Trump hating “Orange Man Bad” hat speech. Sad, really. And shrill, too. Like a woman, only with a deeper voice.
I guess the Quarantine is getting to him.
I can’t wait to see what happens when Donnie gets re-elected.
3-7 his head explodes.