Soaring already DOA for the season???

At 17:32 30 March 2020, Tango Whisky wrote:
Switzerland is locked down, like all countries who's leaders have some
brains left.


or had any to start with :-)

China was surprised by it, but they
have already tamped it down, while we, even with the benefit of more than a month
of warning and a quarter of the population, have not been able to do so, and we
now exceed China's cases and deaths.

And you believe the reporting coming out of the govt run china news agency?.....ah....I have some lake front property you might be interested in buying from me, I’ll make you a heck of a deal....

Switzerland is locked down, like all countries who's leaders have some
brains left.


or had any to start with :-)

Oh I’ve got a great idea, We should get Berney in that office, he can really relate to the “chinese� and the russians....oh I know, how about Biden, but you might need to remind ole Joe what day it is or where he’s standing. Yeh lets get some “smart guys� to handle this thing. How about putting all the dem’s (Polosi, Schumer, no brain Cortez) that mercilessly harranged and chastized Trump when he closed our borders last month, and who are now singing a different tune, conveniently forgeting their esrlier objections. Yes Polosi, thats the ticket, the gal who held up the aid package for a whole week so she could stuff it with non-virus-crisis pork and funding for the Kennedy center and planned parenthood. Yeh theres the solution, Moriarty Dan...better buy some more ammo lol.

To be clear: Nobody cares about US internals, and not a lot of people care how you handle Covid-19 in the US.

Have fun with the Orange Man.

Oh we will and we do, have fun sitting on the ground over there.

I'm not grounded.Â* Just waiting for a decent day.

On 3/29/2020 2:22 PM, wrote:
On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 4:06:55 PM UTC-4, Eric Greenwell wrote:
wrote on 3/29/2020 8:44 AM:
On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 11:32:23 AM UTC-4, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Duster wrote on 3/28/2020 7:19 PM:
A more tempered, but plausible, opinion from the WSJ that’s worth a read:

Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?
Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude. A universal quarantine may not be worth the costs it imposes on the economy, community and individual mental and physical health. We should undertake immediate steps to evaluate the empirical basis of the current lockdowns.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/is-...ay-11585088464
I live in Washington State. In my area, with four nearby towns totaling about
250,000, we've had 5 covid-19 deaths in just one month. Compare that to four flu
deaths in 5 months (flu season), and while flu infections have been decreasing,
Covid infections are increasing.

Here's the deal for me:
- we don't know if this will have a seasonal decline like the flu does
- we know it is much more infectious with higher mortality
- we don't have a vaccine
- we don't have a treatment
- at 77, I am a member of the high risk group

I totally support our current efforts to restrict social contact, and other
precautions.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
Maybe it would be better to quarantine the high risk population and let everyone else party on. Covidoomers say we are all going to get it anyway, so let the strong get it without stopping the world. And the infirm can come out when all is clear. Or everyone else is dead and they have the planet to themselves.
Sarcasm? You know the majority of soaring pilots is in the high-risk group, right?

Should we shut down soaring for everybody because old people are grounded?

--
Dan, 5J

Real men don't drink tea, that's why we dumped it in the harbor... :-D

On 3/30/2020 7:09 AM, Don Johnstone wrote:
At 12:55 30 March 2020, wrote:
We are already considered a pariah. Nothing new there. Even the
countries
t=
hat we bled and died to free treat the US like ****. Most of us dont
give
a=
rip what the EU or Canada or the others think about us. We do our
own
thin=
g we always have, always will. While I hear lots of US bashing I sure
dont
=
see any other country out there coming to OUR aid, I dont see anyone
sendin=
g us ventilators or personal protection equipment but they sure
expect us
t=
o jump and run when they have a crisis.
That is actually not true, we have frequently come to your aid, and you
have come to ours. This despite dumping all that bloody tea, for which
we have yet to forgive you. We do, or most of us do, share your dislike
of the EU.

--
Dan, 5J

Oh for the love of God!Â* Can't you speak civilly about the leader of the
free word?Â* What color are you, Don?Â* The continued use of epithets by
you has caused me to lose any respect which I might have had.Â* Please
grow up and try to speak without sounding like a third grader.

On 3/30/2020 9:44 AM, Don Johnstone wrote:
At 14:57 30 March 2020, wrote:

I just read that the gubmint has determined that the gun industry is a
crit=
ical one to keep opening and functioning.
Gotta have your gun to protect your toilet paper supply!
LOL
UH
To be fair when we read that we thought you might be expecting the
Zombie Apocalypse.
Seriously we do not judge you all by the utterings of the Orange man,
he is however pretty hard to ignore. We are in total shutdown here as
far as flying is concerned and we just want to get it over. I figured the
best way of doing that is to just get on with it and hope it works. For
what it is worth I think it is the right thing to do.


--
Dan, 5J

wrote on 3/30/2020 11:19 AM:
China was surprised by it, but they
have already tamped it down, while we, even with the benefit of more than a month
of warning and a quarter of the population, have not been able to do so, and we
now exceed China's cases and deaths.

And you believe the reporting coming out of the govt run china news agency?.....ah....I have some lake front property you might be interested in buying from me, I’ll make you a heck of a deal....

This claim is not based just on what China says, but on several other independent
sources. There are reports in newspapers, scientific publications, from the UN,
and not just in our country, but around the world. Search some of the sources you
trust.

-- .
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1

On Saturday, 28 March 2020 15:45:05 UTC+2, James Metcalfe wrote:
At 11:03 28 March 2020, krasw wrote:
In my country, there is currently one confirmed corona case per 5000
inhabitants. That is 0.0002% of the population.

Ahem! That's 0.02%
J.

Yes, I deleted (since google does not allow editing) the post after rereading and noticing that too. Kudos for pointing my mistake faster that I can left-click!