Since the Media has been telling us that the Hospitals are Rapidly Running Out of Capacity” for over 5 months, they should all be operating at something like 437.8 % of  capacity….

Or else (and I find this hard to believe) that they have been lying to us for a while. 

 So, apparently, there ARE plans for forced vacination…or at least if you don’t get vaccinated then you cannot move about the country.

Seems that there will be a card issued showing your vaccine status…..and there “May be travel rstrictions”…

Odd, innit, we can’t have and ID to vote ‘Cause That Might Be Racist… but we CAN have to show proof of vaccination…

 So, in San Francisco, it will soon be illegal to smoke tobacco in your apartment….Because Seconhand Smoke is bad for others. 

Yet, oddly, weed is acceptable…. Apparently, secondhand weed smoke is less bad or something. 

One might think that if one is bad, the the other is also. But not to the children that run the governments in the Golden State. 

Typical California. 

 Between the holiday, the low ceilings, the ice and snow, the icing conditions and scheduling issues, I have not had alesson in a Multi Engone aircraft in a week. 

And they scheduled my checkride for a week and ahalf from now….

Crunch time. 

 First, of course, it was a “Wet Market” that served bats from a location 180+ MILES away from Wuhan that was the origin of the Sars-Covid-19 outbreak….Even though the epicenter of the first outbreak was mere tens of feet from the Wuhan center for weaponized diseases. 

THen, of course, they said it might have been Italy….

Now the Chinese are claiming that the outbreak was first found in India…..after the idea that it first originated in Italy failed to gain any traction….(because it was a lie). 

Despite the (multiple) claimed origins for the disease, it first surfaced in Wuhan,  likely not in the “Wet Market” (that didn’t serve bat carcases from mearly 200 miles away)…..but that is what they first claimed…..it came from a disease warfare lab that is located on the same block as the Wet Market they pointed to…..

I think that the Chinese are afraid of (and rightly so) repercussions from the rest of the world….so they are pointing to anyone but the Chinese as the source….

But I doubt that (all of)  the rest of the world will buy their lies…..It seems to be a cultural issue with eastern asians (not just the Chinese) to lie to Westerners….and for some reason, many Westernaers keep buying the lies over and over and over….

 So the State governments have (mostly) mandated a mask in all enclosed public spaces. Essentially, one cannot legally do business without a mask in todays society. 

On the horizon: a (relatively) untried set of vaccines for Covid-19…

Now, one is required to possess a drivers license to drive a car on roads,  In many states, one needs a permit to carry a firearm on one’s person (despite the protections of the Second Amendment of the Constitution). One cannot do banking nor other fiancial businesswithout proving ones identity with a Government issued Identification Card. Similarly, one must “identify” when asked by a policeman or other law enforcement official (The difinition of “Identify” might mean showing an Id or simply stating your name and DOB..it varies).  There is precedent for the following:

Would it be legal for the States or the Federal Government to require that the citizens of this country be vaccinated for Covid-19 in order to do business or to leave one’s home? To buy food or medicine or to mingle with others in public? 

It is, after all, a short step from mandated “Mask Up” in public to “Vaccinate”…..

I fully expect someone to try this…

 I’m not a “Hide behind your Mask” sort of guy. 

I do think that the Covid is real, and serious. 

If you wear a mask,  except under protest, that is your choice. 

But if you go out today, and mingle with everyone else to do your Black Friday shopping, in large crowds, you are an idiot. 

 Well, this year, compared to most years, has Royally Sucked Ass. Financially, personally and for other reasons, it has been, shall we say, a less than stellar year ( I am sure that I am not alone in this sentiment).

Having said that, I am very thankful for my life. I live in a country where, despite recent developments, I still enjoy a relatively great deal of freedom. I have a country which is, mostly, still under the rule of law, with the protections that our Constitution provides, against both the Government and it’s minions, and my fellow citizens. I am thankful for the security and safety that the Military and the Police provide.

I have my home, my possessions, all of which are mine (debt free), and relatively free of the threat of theft or confiscation. 

I am thankful for my friends and family, and their support. 

My life is, actually, pretty good. I’d bet that 75% or more of the people in the world would gladly trade their problems for mine. When one considers the Big Picture, my life is pretty good. 

All in all, while this has been, as I said, a less than stellar year, I am thankful for what I DO have, and that it hasn’t been worse. While the next year will entail some changes and some learning in my life, I also have the belief that things will get better. 

I hope that everyone reading this has things for which they can be thankful. 

 I’m seeing lots of video of the surge of travelers at the airports….Those traveling for Thanksgiving. 

Yet, in all the videos, I am NOT seeing much “Social Distancing: in the lines leading up to the folks fondling those travelers screening those passengers. Odd, that. One might think that these lines would be a major place where “Social Distancing” would work best, as tens of thousands of people per hour funnel through this checkpoint, coming from a diverse range of places, interacting with the others, mingling in a line that can last for an hour or more…in close proximity to those strangers….

Perhaps the masking, the Social Distancing is as much Theater as the TSA’s “protection”?