Yes. Someone I met today is financially devastated because she is a cafeteria worker at the schools and they can’t work remotely and don’t get paid when the schools are closed. She can drive buses but nobody is going to school. She drove the van for the senior center but it’s closed. The unemployment and stimulus isn’t enough to meet her bills. My sister has been slipping her cash to get her through. She is a single mother. They keep pushing back the school opening. Current plan is K through grade 5 in two weeks but her daughter is in grade 7 and has to stay home, but she said if you leave a 12 year old alone at home then CPS will come after you and she is scared, but they allow some children with special needs to come to school, such as autistic and she is applying to get her daughter to be able to come so she can go back to work so she can pay her bills.  It’s a horrific horrible MESS and all of it the shutdown not the virus. This isn’t someone wanting charity, she is desperate to get back to work and loves her work, she loves the children and loves the old people she drove for. That’s how we met her, she is wonderful and patient and loving and hard working.

This is one person’s story and there are hundreds of thousands just like her. It is the blue collar working class that is suffering the most, the ones that can’t do a job remotely from home, and the small businesses being shuttered forever. Trump’s stimulus package was NEVER designed for months on end. This is unsustainable, it is way past the point of reason.

Yet I’ll bet the teachers are still getting paid, which is why they are all for canceling live classes. It doesn’t matter to them.

The next public teacher that says teachers are heroes I’m going to smack the shit out of them. Heroes go to work. Heroes help their fellow man and their community. Heroes are the private school teachers who have continued live school throughout this Covid thing. Heroes check you out at the grocery store checkout line. Heroes are the bartenders and servers who are hoping to have enough customers this week that they are able to pay the rent.

I’m sorry for your friend Rush. As you said, it’s not the Covid that is hurting her. It’s the politicians.

 The actions of government has done more harm to people than this virus could have ever done.  Millions will have their lives upended, many will have their lives destroyed.   Yet we don't see anyone in the media showing us the effects of these because it simple doesn't fit the narrative.

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The damage is incalculable.  I’ve known one family to get the virus. All came out fine with mild cold/flu symptoms. I know a half dozen people suffering from depression from what it has done to their lives.

It will only be with us for a long time to come if we continue this stupid social distancing. Otherwise we’d all get natural immunity or die as nature intended.

I believe that’s true. I went to a wedding this afternoon and reception this evening. 400 people were invited and 200 people showed up. Except for the servers and bartenders, there were 2/200 masktards there. For the first time in a long time, life went back to normal.

I should have made my font in green............

And yea, I've worn my share of nomex back in the day.

Understood and I agree about the poseurs.  Just thought I’d share my ideas.

The host on the podcast that I linked is Richard McSpadden, director of the AOPA Air Safety Institute. He was my Navion instructor when I almost bought the Navion in May.  Super guy.

You mean the nomex flight suit wearing guys in their RV's??   Ya know, wearing the matching nomex flight gloves?   And of course the military aviator sunglasses while they go on and on sprinkling military jargon into their conversations.

 Then you find out they never served.............

 But hey, there again you have all the doctors, lawyers and businessmen who play dress up on the weekends to go ride their Harley's.

The CAF requires Nomex for required crew
Members in all CAF aircraft. After the Collings Foundation B-17 crash, it is strongly suggested for passengers.  We secured about a dozen flight suits for our SNJ and PT-26 rides events. We didn’t want to be in a spot where the pilot escaped with slight burns, while a pax had 3rd degree burns over 90% of her body.

If it wasn’t for a little embarrassment, I would wear one in every GA flight. Gloves too. Many pilots have died from an in-flight fire that was survivable, but their fingers were burning and they couldn’t hold the stick through the crash.

I was at a meeting with a crew member of Blue Bonnet Bell C-47 crash in July 2018. Even though CAF crew were supposed to wear their flight suits, it was Texas and it was hot, so they were all stowed away in the back. The only one wearing Nomex was the co-pilot.

This guy was wearing shorts. He was the first or second person who jumped out the main door (no one used the emergency exits for some reason) and he hit the ground with feet and hands on the ground right when the gas ignited on the grass. 100LL is a flash fire, so it didn’t last longer than a couple seconds, but he was quite burned on his legs and arms and hands. Months in the hospital.

Here’s a podcast from an interview with the pilot of a T-28 that crashed in Minnesota a year or two ago.  Severe burns even with wearing Nomex.

https://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/6/c/6/6c6569098a31e1fc/Chuck_Cook_-_final_mp3.mp3?c_id=65287529&cs_id=65287529&destination_id=519782&expiration=1601664691&hwt=fa7f2ca6b9639da80715d72225904a12

Love it!

Why not?  Very cool!  Love it.  Thanks Stan!  I don't know that plane.

Not as pretty as your next wife Kristi, but still good looking.

Why?

Anthony’s a Grumman guy.