and their respective governments….

If they REALLY believed the hype about the transmissability of the Coronavirus….

If they really thought groups of people together are a terrible thing (enough for them to close all restaurants and malls…. as they have) then they’d be shutting down the subways, bus lines, elevated trains and all other “Mass Transit” types of public transportation.

Instead, they damage the economies, put tens of millions out of work, and still allow them to mingle across many neighborhoods as they and their fellow riders cough and sneeze and touch infected (and infect them themselves) surfaces….spreading the infections across many other people.

If it is a valid reason to close bars and restaurants, then it is a valid reason to close all public transportation.

Yet they haven’t.

Odd discontinuity there, innit?

Claiming one group of people is a vector of transmission of disease, but ignoring another, potentially even greater vector.

That Barry Obama, back in 2009, didn’t take the types of steps that the Trump Administration is taking regarding the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak.

I mean, if he had, then all those folks would not have gotten sick and died…12,500 of them.  (after over 30,000 died from “regular” Flu that year)…

And yet, despite this current virus appearing to be even LESS virulent and LESS transmittable, we have, effectively, shut down non-essential retail commerce in the US and, if course, our schools and government offices.

Liberal Trump Hating people get all upset when you point out that the Swine Fly/H1N1 outbreak was likely worse than this one will be and it was basically ignored by the Federal Government led by Barry Soetoro in 2009.

Some (very) tattooed up chick complaining that her job doesn’t let her save up enough to be able to deal with this Covid-19 caused shutdown.

Yep, It’s the fault of her job.

In 2009, when we had the Swine Flu epidemic, there were no shortages of hospital beds in the United States. Nor were there shortages of staff nor shortages of protective equipment for the staff.

That was, of course, before BarryCare.

Now, of course, there are great fears that there will not be enough hospital beds, staff to use them and care for patients, and there is nearly no long term stock of protective equipment for the staff.

Can we blame this all on BarryCare? Perhaps not all of it.
But mostly, yeah, these shortages ARE the result of our Socialized Medicine Program

Or, in this case, Train like you Fly.

Got my first taste of flying an approach in real IMC.

It really wasn’t a big deal. Just like flying with foggles, only minus the foggles.

Altitude and position and decent rate. Time turn twist throttle talk. (and flaps and lights). Pretty much that simple. 

One ILS and one LPV RNav approach.

At the end of it, fly the needles and watch your airspeed.

One was to circling minimums and the other was straight in..

It is nice to break out of actual clouds and find the runway right where it is supposed to be….

That last run before the end.

And there WAS NO BACON AT BEEF MART!!!

Shit just got REAL.

Another “Hitler” video.

I LOL’d.

So either the kids in high school (and lower grades also) are getting a less than stellar education for the next month or so, as schools are closed and the “alternate curriculum” is enacted, or we are learning that we really don’t need to have all those teachers and school facilities wasting our tax dollars in an attempt to teach kids in the old fashioned way.

I mean, if these kids are learning just as much doing the “Distance Learning”, then why do we need classrooms and such???For that matter, do we need all those teachers as well?

Or, are the kids getting a substandard level of education and the teachers are, in fact, needed and the kids are simply not getting an education to the same standard as before, and how much effect will that have on them in the future?

Are they gonna extend the time for school attendance into the summer months to make up for this time or are they simply gonna give up and let that portion of the curriculum go and let the kids have gaps in their education?

Do we really need teachers and classrooms anymore or not?

Thus far, no one has addressed this issue . But I think someone should.

Make no mistake, I think that the school closures can help prevent the transmission of disease, assuming kids are not passing it anyway in their social interactions during the time that they have off from school….If they stay home and don’t wander the streets, then this can work. If they don’t, then likely this is a waste of time…..and education.

Schools are closed in Chicago.
Probably a good idea, if, as we are told (repeatedly and often by the media) that the coronavirus epidemic is gonna get bigger.

But the Chicago Park District, in order to support all the parents who need to find some place to park their kids who were normally watched over by the State daycare in school, will be having “Age appropriate activities” for kids during the day…..

A great idea. but they will be packing “Not more than 50” kids into the rooms for those “activities” .
Yeah, rooms not in schools with 50 kids in them is better than rooms with 30 or so in classrooms….

Missing the point, innit? How is one better than the other?