Not the disease, which is scary enough, but the fact that the New York Times is getting data on the movements of people via the apps they allowed on their cell phone. 

They not only know where you live, but when you leave and where you go,

Think about it,

A NEWSPAPER gets the data. Data on individuals. Data on their movements.

Where do they get this data?

HERE. Supposedly accurate to 30 FEET.

If a private company has this data, you can expect that the Federal Government has it as well.

MPH.

No, seriously.

Airspeed, and the groundspeed was pretty close to that, average.

See, I got 6 cylinders on my 182 redone. And the conventional wisdom is that they need to be run hard for “Break-In”…

For 10 hours. at 75% power.

75% at 5500 feet works out to be 142 knots. a knot is 1.15 statute miles per hour. You can do the math.

Now, I am not sure why the “Break-In” time is a magical 10 hours….It would seem to me that after an hour or so the rings and cylinders would be worn together…I mean, I have rebuilt hundreds of other types of air cooled engines and they are considered “Broken-In” after 30-45 minutes….the rings and the cylinders have worn together and at that point oil consumption goes to whatever is “normal”. I mean, I am talking from 5 hp mower engines to high compression multi cylinder air cooled diesels. All had the same break-in characteristics and roughly the same timing. the general wisdom was an hour under a half or better load to seat the rings and wear the cylinder finish to properly hold the oil for compression.

But I don’t get a warranty unless I do (and log) the break in time as per recommendations. So I am doing the break in per the specs.

Today, 3:19 ….450 miles more or less. One landing. About half flown by hand, the rest I let the autopilot (“George”) fly. Got the engine nice and warm burnt a lot of fuel.

I gotta say that central Indiana and Illinois are still having lots of traffic on the roads.  Aaron says that his area is way down in traffic, but I did not see that on the roads over which I flew. Larger state highways, Interstates, US highways…all fairly normal. Even Indianapolis roads were not terribly empty, at least not on the north side.

It appears that the 2 idiots who shot Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick Georgia when they accused him of being a thief, despite their stupidity, may have had a reason to follow him.
Note: NOT detain him, nor to confront him, nor shoot him. Once they went beyond following him, they were in the wrong.

However, I cannot help but wonder. Much like the photos of Trayvon Martin depicted him as a cerub faced child, the current photos of Mr Arberry show him about 5  years younger than he was when he was shot, and this makes me wonder if we are again being subjected to a bit of race baiting, using Mr. Arbery as a pawn.

I have no knowledge of his innocence or guilt, and it does appear that the two idiots involved in his shooting were in the wrong. (and I would support them being charged, tried, and, if convicted, being put in prison for murder.

But it makes me wonder….if the press and the black community can’t show him as he was at the time of his death, but rather are attempting to depict him as a much younger, much more innocent man, a kid even….are they trying to hide something???, much as they attempted to hide the fact that Trayvon Martin was a serious thug. It would seem so. At least they are trying to depict him as something he is not….and I gotta ask why that is? Are they ashamed of what he was?

I’d really like to know.

‘Social Distancing’ is Snake Oil, Not Science

Yet every politician and nearly every “HealthCare” provider jumped on the bandwagon…with absolutely ZERO evidence that it did anything, or was effective.

(Health Care and other medical folks are very much trend followers, they do medicine like women do fashion, just blindly following with absolutely zero reasons to believe that which they repeat and preach……and the whole “social distancing” thing is just one example. 

THIS:

Why Did We Treat Coronavirus So Differently Than Other Epidemics?

A really good question.

Via

Seems that in Nashville, there are Covid-19 concentration camps if one cannot prove that one has a home to hide in…

A coronavirus patient was arrested Thursday after prosecutors said he jumped a fence and fled the Nashville Fairgrounds, where health officials are using enforceable quarantines in an attempt to control an outbreak at an emergency homeless shelter.

I find this to be a scary precedent. Very, very scary.

Via Confessions of a Street Pharmacist

So helping an acquaintance find a leak on a porch roof this morning. We were done and cleaning up.

His wife says “maybe B can help you fix the dishwasher too”.

Friend looks at her and says “What, are you broke”?

Me: “damn, look at the time, I gotta go!”.

Much like the difference between the ideals of the founders of the United Nations and the actuality, we now see the reality of the WHO (World Health Organization) and how they failed the world over politics.

China asked WHO to “Cover Up” coronavirus on Jan 21. (maybe true, maybe not…but I;d bet it is true)

So for nearly a MONTH the world failed to plan for, or take measures against, the outbreak of Covid 19. How many folks died because of the delay, especially in Europe?

(Now, I think we and most of western Europe overreacted, but we did so too late. Really, China should have told us back in early December, but….)

Remember the US pays approximately 40% of the WHO costs. Why are we paying for this sort of failure? 

It has been my plan for many years.

The best answer to ANY question when asked by Law Enforcement of any kind, or anyone connected to them, (or, sadly, to ANY government official, be they a dogcatcher, a Code Enforcement person, a tax official, a boiler inspector, or a clerk at the tax office:

“Attorney”…That is the best (and for me, the only) answer.

Don’t believe me? Read this for inspiration. He’s correct, and not just because our philosophies happen to parallel in this. There is seldom an upside to talking to Federal, state, or local officials,….Especially, but not limited to, Law Enforcement types.

It isn’t just Flynn and Jewell…It’s also Weaver and Koresh and lots of others. It is the attitude of those with that type of power and training. Once you get caught up in their gears, you are screwed.

Don’t let it be you.

Be polite,
Be decent.

Be firm….:”Lawyer“.

The Freeholder said… (in a comment to a post down below)
Actually, masks do work to help reduce infection rates. Why do you think the medical types wear them?

However, there are two prerequisites for this to work. First, everyone has to wear them. Second, they must be worn correctly to be effective. (emphasis mine)


And there’s the rub. Not everyone wears them–I don’t, because I have a beard and given that, I’m just wasting the mask. Others don’t for their own reasons. Of those that do, around 3/4, in my experience, wear them incorrectly. I’ve seen every violation of mask protocol imaginable during my trips outside the wire.

My opinion is that, unless we all wear them and wear them correctly, we may actually be making things worse via a false sense of security. For now, I’m just going with avoiding people where possible and washing my hands. It’s worked so far.



Yes, masks work to prevent the wearer from passing his or her spittle on to the rest of the herd. If THEY are wearing a mask, and they cough, it prevents their virus laden droplets from spewing into the air from me ingest when I breathe. As far as a single layer mask preventing them from ingesting any virus particles? Pretty much useless. and about half of the masks are just that: a single layer of cloth that won’t even filter fine dust very well…. As for spittle droplets, the masks are somewhat effective PROVIDING THEY ARE WORN CORRECTLY…. Less than 30% of the people I encounter are eve coming close to wearing their (somewhat effective) masks correctly.

Paper masks:
Worn under the nose. Useless.
improperly fitted at the nose. Pretty much useless. IF there is a gap that one can stick one’s finger into at any point around the periphery of the mask, then one might as well not wear the mask.
2 strap masks, but only one strap, the other hanging loosely….see above.
Paper surgical masks….don’t do much to help the wearer. Especially those where any observer can see the side of the wearer’s mouth…useless for protecting the wearer.

Cloth masks:
Single layer cloth masks…again, help keep some droplets from entering the user’s mouth or nose. If worn correctly. Most have the same fitment issues as the above referenced paper masks.
Same-same for wearing them when they are not covering one’s nose.  Or tight enough not to leak.

In addition to the above: Let’s face it, if I (or you) haven’t gotten exposed to Covid-19 yet, then I (or you) will be exposed at some point when we open up the country. We have all been to the store, or other places, in the past 6 weeks, most of us not wearing a mask. And the virus has been here since at least early December. Currently, there is no vaccine, so the only way to get immunity is to roll the dice and get the damned disease, and either get over it (43%), be asymptomatic (probably about 50%) , or get sick enough to require hospitalization (6%). It could be that you are part of the < 1% that die from it.
But exposed to it you will be in the next few months. For sure by the end of the year. All the “Social Distancing” or “Lockdown” does is to spread the infection times over a few moths rather than a few weeks…the whole idea was to prevent a sudden influx of cases (because the virulence was MASSIVELY overstated) to prevent the overwhelming of the health care system (which, never happened, even in such places like the greater New York area, which accounted for 40% of ALL the cases in the US.

So yes, wearing a mask can help. If worn correctly. Few do….. by my small number of observations, less that 1/3 wear them correctly. Most ineffectively enough as to be useless. It has become a fashion, nothing more. And even wearing a mask does not keep one from being exposed. In the end, you WILL be exposed. Most  of us will not even know it, some will be mildly sick and a few will get VERY sick.
The whole mask wearing/social distancing/hide-in-our-homes will not prevent us from the effects of the disease if we re going to resume our normal lives at any point.

Besides, the TOP. MEN.  at the CDC told us masks don’t work. Either they don’t know what they are talking about or they were lying. Which is it? Either way, why should we trust anything they say? They said we would need tens of thousands of hospital beds and ventilators. That turned out not to even be close, either. Such “experts”.

This whole thing is bullshit. You know it, I know it and it is only the Media that is telling you (and that you believe) otherwise that is making you hide in your home and behind a mask.