What have we learned from all this?

On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 12:02:02 PM UTC-5, Bob Youngblood wrote:
On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 11:09:29 AM UTC-4, Shaun Wheeler wrote:
Haven't seen this much hysteria since the 2016 election was over.

Shaun, you must not be seeing any news, remember the Russian conspiracy that the whack's dreamed up. Bob

I already miss the days when 5G held the top spot.

The evening body counts though, that's a nice touch. Reminded me very much of 1968-1972. About the only thing that would make my flashback complete would be a CGI animation of Harry Reasoner and Walter Cronkite delivering it.

((sigh))

Oh well. I'll burn some incense, put on some "Country Joe and the Fish" and invite the neighbors kids to come burn a couple blunts while I fire up my old blacklight.

Dont forget the hippy beads and the lava lamp

wrote on 4/11/2020 12:51 PM:
Speaking of china I can’t wait till Trump sends them the bill for OUR expense involving this viral mess thats completely their fault.
Dan

We were warned repeatedly over the last 15-20 years that a pandemic was coming.
Trump and his administration were warned several times by different people, even
before he was inaugurated, including by government departments. Trump et al
ignored the warnings, even disbanding the pandemic group in 2018. He was slow to
react to the warnings and events over the last few months, giving us "happy talk"
instead of facts ("I want to be a cheerleader").

I want a government that can protect us from foreign attacks or mistakes, instead
of one that blames others and won't accept any responsibility for the outcomes.

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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

wrote on 4/11/2020 8:30 AM:
On Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 12:00:24 AM UTC-4, wrote:

In 2018, we were killing, by average, 3670 people DAILY in car wrecks in the US. I can't imagine we've cut that in half, but with the StayAtHome mandates, it likely has dropped this month.

Really? 3670 times 365 means we killed well over a million
people on the roads in 2018. You'd think I'd remember that.

Jim Beckman

Indeed. The yearly count is around 35,000/year, or about 100/day.

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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, April 11, 2020 at 11:52:22 PM UTC-4, Eric Greenwell wrote:
wrote on 4/11/2020 12:51 PM:
Speaking of china I can’t wait till Trump sends them the bill for OUR expense involving this viral mess thats completely their fault.
Dan

We were warned repeatedly over the last 15-20 years that a pandemic was coming.
Trump and his administration were warned several times by different people, even
before he was inaugurated, including by government departments. Trump et al
ignored the warnings, even disbanding the pandemic group in 2018. He was slow to
react to the warnings and events over the last few months, giving us "happy talk"
instead of facts ("I want to be a cheerleader").

I want a government that can protect us from foreign attacks or mistakes, instead
of one that blames others and won't accept any responsibility for the outcomes.

--
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

The same journowhores that criticized Trump for shutting down travel from China. Now say he didn't do enough. No one with any sense cares what they say. Have some more moonbat soup.

Surely there has to be a political Google Group where this discussion is more appropriate.

Lou

On Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 8:54:52 AM UTC-5, MNLou wrote:
Surely there has to be a political Google Group where this discussion is more appropriate.

Lou

Ignore politics long enough and the only flying you'll be doing is with paper airplanes.

To lighten the spirit a little, here's a song on the subject:
https://youtu.be/I3xpRZITi2w

On 4/12/2020 8:28 AM, Shaun Wheeler wrote:
On Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 8:54:52 AM UTC-5, MNLou wrote:
Surely there has to be a political Google Group where this discussion is more appropriate.

Lou
Ignore politics long enough and the only flying you'll be doing is with paper airplanes.


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Dan, 5J

Dan, Great song......brought a smile to my face! Thanks!

Rich

We were warned repeatedly over the last 15-20 years that a pandemic was coming.

Sure, but there was also a warning in all the years since 1918 or maybe since the plague. But given the high false alarm rate for a will certainly happen eventually warning, what made any specific warning to any specific administration stand out?

Except of course with the advantage of hindsight after it happened.