Bozo the pilot

Ugh- you sound like an ad for Falsi's Nobel prize nomination.
Ease up the sell job. You lefties got the destroyed economy and control you were seeking. Just sit back and enjoy the massive Gov overreach.
Oh and wear 3 masks in your car alone.

FlewUnderWires

I dunno man. I feel happier this year than last year. Sorry you don’t.

galaxy flyer

Better a dependent victim, I guess.

Grumpyaviator

He has the spine of a dishrag and then virtue signals some kind of manufactured social superiority. The whole revamped lifestyle routine sounds made up.

spirited

rickair7777 close this stupid bickering thread already. No value add here

FlewUnderWires

Yeah. Good job turning this into what you did. Sorry you can’t legitimately debate or add anything about the original topic. Once again all the other side wanted was personal attacks and misinformation.

Furloughedboi

Some of you could really benefit from changing your tone and being more respectful. Few commenters have mentioned their age; wasn’t respect supposed to be better from older generations? I don’t see it from some on here. You can disagree and be civil.

Flewunder, I’ll add this:
It comes down to perception. You perceive the threat and response was justified, so your perception is positive. If I was told a nuclear bomb went off and we had to wear gas masks everywhere and limit our time outdoors, I would be understanding and also adapt my way of life.

But that’s not what happened here. I don’t believe our response was appropriate, so I therefore perceive life as being taken away from me involuntarily. Robbed, even, by people who told me how I should feel and think. I lost a lot. A good job, no one could visit us in the hospital for our first child, we couldn’t have a real baby shower, I had to move into a trailer to save money, had to take odd jobs to earn a living, lost friendships because they’re terrified of covid,

Now, if I felt all of that was necessary, I would adapt appropriately. But it wasn’t. No one in my family cares about COVID. I asked all 4 of my grandparents and they said, “if I get it, I get it.” And yet every day for a year I heard, “we have to SAVE LIVES! Don’t you care about old people?”

People don’t want to be forced to do something they don’t agree with. That’s what happened here with covid. Nothing you can say or do will ever convince me that the last year of my life was not taken from me unnecessarily. That’s why myself and others are so angry about the covid response and people who are so accepting or supporting of it. Specifically when the same people who tell me “I view it as doing what I can to save a life.”

Bull crap. Every person who has told me that drives a car. You don’t really care about lives, you care about covid because you’ve been told it’s dangerous.

FlewUnderWires

Furloughed, that’s absolutely fair. I recognize I come from a man extremely fortunate point of view of this entire situation. I’m sorry to hear about the furlough and impacts your life and hope are are already back flying or will be soon.

I didn’t lose a job or loved ones, but I think a lot of what drove my responses to this were feeling like a lost a year of spending time with my wife as she was was overloaded and constantly working on patients in the covid wards and helping support other healthcare workers who were both rapidly worsening. We both got lucky with the employment aspect of this and most of my experience of from seeing the medical side rather than the interpersonal or financial implications head on. At the same time I wish more were done to support the people that had lost jobs, quality of life and a year of important life events.

I’m sure that with everything the proper response lies somewhere in the middle. And I’m relieved that we are seeing the end of the tunnel. So I’ll back down from my soap box. And I recognize that all of the yelling from both sides mainly comes from places of wanting to give their best ideas for helping make things better.

CAirBear

To be completely honest the entire COVID-19 Sub-Section needs to be closed. It is absolutely beyond time.

The only thread that’s worth anything is your TSA Numbers thread and even that is stating to turn into this type of BS the last few pages.

Rick, truly. It’s time.

rickair7777

There's still some discussion or info about vaccines that's relevant to the industry. Also relevant is social trends and behavior which influence air travel.

But the time isn't that far off.