we’ve already lost pilots to suicide over what’s going on. Perhaps some kindness on your part when disagreeing is what was missing - and perhaps it’s the lack of “touch” and tact in your reply that people are responding to.

When I read the teacher’s post I read it from the perspective of someone who was offering some analysis to add to the guesses no doubt we’ve all been making as of late and I just said “Ah, cool, but no one knows and his guess was as good as mine or anyone else’s” and moved on.

You might be angry and still in a bit of denial over what’s going on. Maybe not. You also may be supremely confident in your personal assessment of the future of the world, airline industry, United, and your BES. Your “join date” in all of this has little, if anything, to do with any of that.