I'd be happy with a flight suit (utilitarian.) Contrary to what most fancy themselves, we are not white collar workers. We are not "officers." We are laborers, workers, equipment operators. We don't even interact with the public like in the old days. The FA's do, but pilots, not so much. Stuff us in the cockpit, let us be comfortable, uniformed reasonably, to operate our machinery.

you realize cnn started the term fake news (or faux news for Fox News during the Obama admin)

Some majors at least have a slightly different outlook. We are still expected to provide some "adult supervision" at the pointy end of the operation, where the line sups may have a GED. There is also a hope (sometimes realized, sometimes not), that we'll take the initiative and smooth the process when we see an opportunity. It's not that much different than my military officer role.

Regardless, any of us have veto power where safety is concerned (thanks FAA).

Don’t know where your head is, but evidently it hasn’t been the dictionary. It’s “shuttering.” “Shuddering” is what reasoned, educated people are doing in reaction to some of your posts.

Social distancing is not responsible for a sudden inability to handle an oversupply of fresh corpses.

Science and reason aren’t panic. But your words reflect panic—as well as an selfish prioritization of your own personal interest above anything else.

Google “Keith Redding lung damage” and watch a doctor walk through the severe damage suffered by a 59-yo nonsmoker before he was hospitalized. After watching that if you still think it’s like the flu, you’re hopeless.

Of course, one would have to accept science, 3-D modeling, and decades of medical experience and training ... nah! I’ll just “believe” what I want and reject everything else.

Many years ago you were the guys saying man wouldn’t fly, people couldn’t breathe above 20 stories up, and spirits caused sickness ... glad progress continues even through human fear and failings. Darwin will win, though..

Be that as it may, and I don't necessarily disagree with you, a monkey suit hardly begets such authority. Ditch it already. My opinion, which means nothing, because it'll never change.

Hahaha!!
'So if you question Fauci that makes you a non believer in science?? Fauci was wrong and is talking out both sides of his a** right now. Your thinking is dangerous and you are the one that is simple minded.
His numerous miscalculations ruined our economy and will be responsible for more deaths than the virus itself.
#firefauci

No, not at all. If one believes Fauci “ruined our economy” is what is simple-minded. It’s not dangerous unless it’s shared by someone powerful...oops, well is IS dangerous!

And right to name-calling, Trumprangutan move no. 1? Do you people ever have a positive, reality-based suggestion? Or is it always someone else’s fault? Even were your fantasy true, Fauci is an appointee doing what he’s hired to do. Why not blame the simple-minded person who hired Fauci, or empowers him? Oh, that’s not in your programming, right? Critical think, much?

No, not at all. Believing Fauci “ruined our economy” is what is simple-minded. It’s not dangerous unless it’s shared by someone powerful...oops, well is IS dangerous!

And right to name-calling, Trumprangutan move no. 1? Do you people ever have a positive, reality-based suggestion? Or is it always someone else’s fault? Even were your fantasy true, Fauci is an appointee doing what he’s hired to do. Why not blame the simple-minded person who hired Fauci, or empowers him? Oh, that’s not in your programming, right? Critical think, much?

Looking at majorpilot’s post history it’s easy to see he’s self-important and feels the need to spread his drivel throughout APC. There is no rhyme or reason why or where he elects to enlighten the internet. But suffice it to say, today is F9’s day to sit back and endure his spam. Like the virus, he will be forgotten.

So to get back on track...What are the odds that we survive this? High enough I don’t advocate anybody selling their North Face jacket. I feel there are going to be plenty of opportunities to show it off on the A Concourse in Denver. Cheers everyone �

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/...kay-on-feb-29/

#firefauci

Sure it is. The numbers have been blown way out of proportion. I am right. The economy will be opening starting early May. Crap places that are run by people with your progressive leanings will stay shuddered for a little bit longer. Oh sorry
Shuttered.. But you can shudder in place while the rest of us try to salvage whats left of our economy.

Your beloved conservative media downplayed the virus far more and far longer that Fauci.

Well of course! Conservatives starve children and steal from old people. Heard it all before
#orangemanbad

So did your Democrats and the mainstream media. Let’s start with DeBlasio.

https://youtu.be/1JZ0Ruh89f0

Partisan politics, cool. Logging off again.

Me too. Moderators must be asleep at the wheel again.

His news source comes from Breitbart.. I think this was right next to the article about Bigfoot keeping a lumber jack as a sex slave

Well, only if they can profit from doing so. BTW, both sides today are way more conservative than Ike was.

Wow how progressive and original of you.
Did you come up with that on your own?
What news source do you insist we all follow?
NPR, CNN, CBS, FOX??

Why are you so afraid of a thought or a word that goes against your university indoctrination? Being intolerant of another’s point of view really shows your insecurity in your own belief system.

Yup. It’s incredibly stupid how many people argue about people who give absolutely no s... about them. It’s absolutely incredible to me. 🐑

tomgoodman was the only dude who would close threads and be all over it. Sucks he’s MIA now. Please come back!

Only if there is a bunch of 150y/o people around that actually know the difference. I would say slavery and civil rights have improved a lot more than pilot careers have.

You need your safe space CareBear??

Lmao! Keep on keepin on. You are the people politicians love. You believe and regurgitate all of their stupid BS. I’m not going to argue with you though.

Lets hope we all get approved for some grant money and get out of this mess in the fall. Time will tell.

You're hardly worth arguing with, but do you realize the parties switched political views- Republicans used to call themselves Democrats and Democrats called themselves Republicans. Lincoln was a modern day, Democrat.

Sounds like you could use at least some public school indoctrination yourself.

Dude what? That is some mental gymnastics to summarize it that way.

Yeah, good luck with that. See ya in a few months.

I don’t expect you to be enlightened, there needs to be both a lamp and power for light. You seem to have shut down both.

Reason and science will prevail, panic and emotion knee-jerking will not. Like the Salem witch-trial prosecutors and Inquisition fans, your brand of stupid eventually loses. ALWAYS.

It's really not that difficult, and was explained pretty well. Republicans used to be liberal, progressive, and the party of a large government. Nothing that they support now. So when somebody says "Lincoln was a Republican," he almost certainly would not identify with today's Republican Party, because they embody absolutely zero ideals that he stood for.

Take a look at Lincoln and the current GOP platforms.

Lincoln was for a strong union--not division between the north and the south. He wanted a strong US military--he knew he'd need it to keep the country together. Lincoln was against the expansion of slavery--and latter against all slavery. He was for the development of the west--and used the Homestead Act for citizens to accomplish that--without government support except title to the land. Lincoln was also for tariffs to protect domestic production.

Seems like the Republican party has returned to Lincoln's policies rather than abandoning them. I would counter that the Democrat party's economic platform is much closer to Karl Marx than JFK (who enacted tax cuts to stimulate the economy and worried about budget deficits).

Opinions, politics, and *******s--everybody has at least one. Some are full of $#!^

Thought experiment:
Imagine for a moment if JFK were resurrected as a hologram later this year in the middle of the DNC convention and gave his famous Inaugural speech of 1961 containing the line:

“My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

He would be boo'd and pilloried as a Republican of the worst kind.

on any given day 15,000 people die in the US. Except for April 14 when they changed the criteria and we had a one day
increase to 6000 corona deaths, the corona deaths have not really been any huge increase over background, especially since they were disproportionately in the elderly who have a high background death rate anyway.

https://i.ibb.co/TR8h5KT/D3434-E73-5...3793-E3893.jpght

Not if you spread it over the entire country. Why don't you run the numbers for NYC and see why they're stacking bodies in refrigerated trailers?

My reading shows a daily increase of 300%+ over almost an entire month. What do you come up with?

Cities have always been hit harder by airborne epidemics - dating back to the early days of Rome. On the other hand, if you are planning on having a heart attack or major trauma being in NYC near a hospital as opposed to someplace like Skagway Alaska is a huge advantage.

About a million people have a heart attack annually and 14% of them die of it. That’s 140,000 people. it’s even worse for major trauma. It kills 150,000 annually.

Bet you a fifth of Jeremiah Weed that coronavirus deaths in the US don’t hit 140,000 annually. Ever.

The flaw in the argument that we should have just let the virus just run it’s course is nobody will ever know how that would have played out? If the majority of the population became sick in roughly the same period of time the economy would have tanked anyhow. We do know that. I’ll bet you it would have topped 140,000 deaths had we done nothing. Fortunately we’ll never know.

Also; cite your sources. the CDC states 647,000 Americans die from heartdisease each year—that's 1 in every 4 deaths.
Crucially; I can't catch your heart attack. You cant give yours to 3 other people...
The point that your analysis misses is that the covid19 deaths are net new deaths. not reclassification of an existing death rate. granted; c19 tends (though the numbers are normalizing around 49 years old now..) towards mortality in older and sicker populations; Cardio Vascular deaths tend towards poorer communities. Left unchecked, with no mitigation strategies and credible forecasts predict anything up to 2 million net new deaths.
It sucks. No one wants to be broke, sad watching reruns in pajamas. everyone understands the economic costs of a shutdown; but the low number of deaths is a reflection of the success of the lockdowns. it's the lesser of two enormous evils...

We have 37k deaths which basically is Jan to April time period. I hope you are correct.

But at least I know when the other guy is having a heart attack so I can stay away from him and not catch one too.

Than stay home and curl up in the fetal position The grown ups will get the economy going for you.

This site really, really needs a "like" feature.