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Post by sgtmajor on Jul 7, 2020 17:56:49 GMT -5
It's a month later and Texas has mostly reopened. Here in West Texas the Wuhan virus was quite mild. ... It's now more than a month later and, sadly, from news reports we are seeing, Texas has become one of the worst-affected states in the USA, along with Florida. It seems as if this virus has a long life ahead of it and that the person administering your country by Twitter just hasn't got a clue. Like so many times Bruce......"We" are our own worst enemies. Today's News.....Texas had the largest jump in new cases yesterday (7.06.2020).....10,000 reported new cases. The biggest single day jump since this pandemic began. To some degree, we're having some of the same issues in California as other states like Arizona, Texas & Florida. People just don't take this seriously. Back in May, folks in California as well as Florida protesting wanting the beaches opened for the summer. Well....local governments gave in and now they're paying the price. Stupid is as stupid does! I just returned from a trip to the store to pick up a couple items. BIG YELLOW SIGNS at the entrance........." Face Coverings Are Required to Enter Store!" Can't miss the signage....however, inside there was at least one fool walking through the store on his cell phone....no mask etc!! I'm back home now and will continue to enjoy life at a distance. Sooner or later nature will take care of itself....isn't that part of Darwin's theory of "Natural Selection?" (smile) Cheers, |
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Post by bhk on Jul 8, 2020 2:48:21 GMT -5
You know, Steve.....I think you're right on the mark: Nature's way of culling her stock of humankind.
Along with pandemics, epidemics, other diseases, conflicts both regional and global, fatal accidents, etc and etc, nature has to do something to save her world from total destruction.
We certainly don't help.
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Post by nige on Jul 8, 2020 15:04:26 GMT -5
This is a quote I came across a few days ago:-
Most extinct life can blame natural forces beyond its control. But when we go extinct all we'll get to blame is our stupidity'
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Post by bhk on Jul 8, 2020 16:05:13 GMT -5
How true, Nige.
We can't just place the blame at the feet of politicians....after all, we are the ones who elect them.
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Post by sgtmajor on Jul 9, 2020 9:16:04 GMT -5
How true, Nige. We can't just place the blame at the feet of politicians....after all, we are the ones who elect them. That's so funny Bruce......every time I see someone doing something really stupid....my family knows I always say, "Gee....just think.....they get to vote too." (Smile) Is it just an age thing.....or am I just turning into a grumpy old man? I swear, mankind seem dumber with each passing year. Perhaps it's just me......but I've kind of gotten use to.....and even like some of this isolation. (smile) Cheers, BTW Nige......I liked that quote too! |
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Post by Tom Constantine on Jul 9, 2020 13:25:11 GMT -5
I've been a grumpy old man for years. And I am comfortable with self-isolation. I was doing it before it was cool.  The lucky thing for me is living here in Maine with a progressive governor and a pro-active State CDC as well as being at the extreme northeast corner of la-la-land, the impact of Covid-19 has been small and largely confined to the southern border counties and our one "big city" which is 125 glorious miles away from me. Still, living in a congregate facility with a significant number of covidiots, (yeah, they vote too) it can be risky to go through the lobby to the mail room. Still alive, still able to feed myself, life is good. Carry on... |
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Post by nige on Jul 9, 2020 15:10:57 GMT -5
Voting is often like choosing the lesser of two evils. As for being a Grumpy Old Man, I am proud to be one.
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Post by bhk on Jul 9, 2020 16:11:03 GMT -5
Steve, Tom, Nige....
We've all earned the right to fall into the GOM category.
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Post by sgtmajor on Jul 10, 2020 22:52:54 GMT -5
It's never been more clear to me then this very moment............I miss talking to my old friends here at TOH. Geezzz....we're all cut from the same cloth!! (smile)
Cheers!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 4:29:27 GMT -5
Well, I don't know what to say to you lot, all sitting cringing in your bunkers apparently. Sorry guys, life's already too short and we haven't got that much time left at our end of the cycle to be wasting it hiding away from some invisible enemy. I've decided to carry on but take reasonable precautions and I'm still living out my whacky adventures. Last time I was in the UK I acquired yet another ultralight aircraft for not a lot of money that hadn't been flown for a number of years and had been 'condemned' as costing too much to get back in the air. I already knew it well and knew that it was basically sound, so I transferred it onto the French register where you don't have all the petty bureaucracy that applies in the UK with the idea of flying it out to France. I tried several times between late summer 2019 and Christmas returning twice by car to the UK but without success due to poor weather and finally left the aircraft in a hangar in the first week of December expecting to return in March to do the flight. Then of course we had all the Covid crap on both sides of the Channel and I eventually got back on 21st June. Even then I had to avoid 14 days of compulsory quarantine on arrival in the UK by declaring myself as 'aircrew', one of the exempt species. Look, I don't make up the stupid rules, I just bend them a bit... As I'd prepared the aircraft before it went into the hangar the idea was to just do an air test on 22nd June and fly out on 23rd. Like heck. When I switched the fuel pump on fuel came squirting out of yet more perished hose (I'd already replaced quite a bit) and there was a low fuel pressure problem evidenced by me taking off, having a near engine failure at 50 feet, just managing to do a 180 degree back to the runway with the engine constantly losing and regaining power the whole time and landing back on with a 25kmh tail wind. Luckily I was able to stop before the trees at the end of the runway by running into the long grass that hadn't been cut for hay at the time but was the next day! After I'd refurbed the fuel pump, replaced both of the in-line filters and the too-small diameter fuel hose that I finally realised that some jerk had fitted that could not supply enough fuel to the engine at full ie take off throttle, that solved the fuel problem but I then found there was an ignition problem. I partly found that out by running out of fuel at 1800 feet during an air test due to flying with excessive revs to compensate for the problem, calling a mayday on my radio and deadstick landing in a field. A friend then had to come from the airfield with 20 litres of mixed 2-stroke fuel that I had in the unlocked boot of my car and I was then able to fly out of the field again, but not until after the owner of the field had taken photos of her little girl in the pilot seat of my aircraft, I'd enjoyed a cup of tea with them both, her little girl had drawn a picture for me and shared her broken biscuits with me that had just been delivered that morning. Wonderful. I fixed the problem by installing a new ignition stator but by then the wind had got up and I was left sleeping on the couch in the airfield caravan for 2 weeks until finally there was a window on 7 July last. So I was at last able to get away and make the flight out of the UK and down to the Dordogne where I live in SW France. It was one of the most gruelling I've ever done taking 11 1/2 hours overall with one or two problems along the way. www.micro-trike.co.uk/wordpress/the-long-flight-home/And the saga continues. I'm just about to pop across to the airfield to clean up another one of my now three aircraft (again, doh..) as I've got a prospective buyer for it coming down from Belgium tomorrow who's been waiting since the end of last year to get his hands on it. Hopefully the sale will go through... Oh, and did I tell you that I've also taken up drone flying? Great fun that is |
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Post by bhk on Jul 11, 2020 16:22:57 GMT -5
Well, I don't know what to say to you lot, all sitting cringing in your bunkers apparently...... So are you disregarding whatever isolation regulations have been (or still are) in place in your part of the world, Roger? I can't speak for the others but I certainly don't consider myself to be cringing in my bunker. Far from it. Trips to Lismore, Grafton and just returned from two days up near Surfer's Paradise. All the time complying with our emergency health regulations. Hardly "cringing". But then again, Australia has one of the lowest infection/death statistics of all, so our lock-downs, social-distancing and self-discipline methods appear to be working. You do realise that the Gen-X, Gen-Y and Millenials are referring to this virus as the "Boomer Doomer"?....meaning that they are much less susceptible to serious health issues than people of our age. Shows you exactly why they are ignoring the issue. |
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Post by bhk on Jul 11, 2020 16:27:38 GMT -5
This is a quote I came across a few days ago:- Most extinct life can blame natural forces beyond its control. But when we go extinct all we'll get to blame is our stupidity' - Neil deGrasse Tyson You know, just picking up this quote, Nige......I recently read that the koala in the wild in NSW will be extinct by 2035. Reason is that we lost nearly 80% of what remained of its natural habitat through the bushfires Oct 2019-Feb 2020. That's a tragedy....an absolute tragedy. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 16:53:42 GMT -5
Bruce, I have to say that I'm now following my own common sense about this thing. I believe, I may be wrong, that the way I live I never get flu so why should I stand any more of a chance of getting Covid which is of the same family? The 'rules' in France have been defined and applied in a much more sensible way than in the UK and many of us are now deciding thet having played the game for as long as was necessary, enough is enough. The world cannot continue in a permanent state of lockdown. Being hard-nosed, those who have died were going to die anyway for the most part as the majority suffered pre-existing conditions. They have now gone and those of us who remain are far more able to fend off this disease on our own account. Indeed, we now know that huge numbers of us have been infected and have shown no symptoms whatsoever.
So sorry, like I said, I'm not going to accept the bullshot that's being fed to people in the UK especially about the need to social distance 2 metres FFS. That's not necessary and the evidence is that it never was. All it's done is ruin people's lives and poleaxe the economy for no reason. I refuse now to put my life on hold. I will take my own precautions - I wear a mask under certain circumstances, I am even more diligent than usual about personal hygiene and I don't breathe down other people's necks or allow them to do so down mine. I will not now be told by the so-called experts who have failed us dismally IMO how to live my life or what I should be doing. I played the game in the beginning and stayed home but for me, and I see where I live, for most others around me, we want our lives to go on and will make sure that they do. If that's putting myself at risk, too bad. I do not believe that there is any evidence that I am putting others at risk by doing so.
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Post by bhk on Jul 11, 2020 19:48:09 GMT -5
Rog,
We are of differing opinions and therefore a debate is worthless.
I take comfort in the fact that not everyone thinks the same as you.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2020 2:02:25 GMT -5
Bruce, I knew that Aus had become an over-regulated, bureaucratised nanny state but I didn't realise how much.
Me, I'm just a 74 year old out-of-control rebel. But thankfully still a free-thinker.
Fare you all well
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The lucky thing for me is living here in Maine with a progressive governor and a pro-active State CDC as well as being at the extreme northeast corner of la-la-land, the impact of Covid-19 has been small and largely confined to the southern border counties and our one "big city" which is 125 glorious miles away from me. Still, living in a congregate facility with a significant number of covidiots, (yeah, they vote too) it can be risky to go through the lobby to the mail room. Still alive, still able to feed myself, life is good. Carry on...
