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#771
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Not creating artificial transmission vectors in the first place, for example, placing thousands of Covid positive patients in nursing homes, resulted in the largest spread, and subsequent death toll in the world. Tens of thousands died, this for some reason, doesn't bother the usual suspects around here.
since you’ve moved on from spreading misinformation and moved on to finger pointing let me ask you this: Would holding a political rally indoors be a “vector” for the virus? Would it be good judgment to hold such a rally today or last month knowing what we know now about the spread of the virus?
#772
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#773
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You continue to demonstrate your lack of reading comprehension.
While this is not an exhaustive review of masks and respirators as source control and PPE... surgical masks have some role to play in preventing emissions from infected patients
telling the public to wear cloth or surgical masks could be interpreted by some to mean that people are safe to stop isolating at home. It's too late now for anything but stopping as much person-to-person interaction as possible.
Masks may confuse that message and give people a false sense of security.
While this is not an exhaustive review of masks and respirators as source control and PPE... surgical masks have some role to play in preventing emissions from infected patients
telling the public to wear cloth or surgical masks could be interpreted by some to mean that people are safe to stop isolating at home. It's too late now for anything but stopping as much person-to-person interaction as possible.
Masks may confuse that message and give people a false sense of security.
Sorry I confused you with the go hide under your bed insult throwing guy. You're the: you lack reading comprehension and literally believe taxes are akin to slavery, right?
#774
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I pared down your quote of the UMN to the points I was trying to make before. You didn't address the fact that the other linked article (your source) definitively stated masks are effective source control. You also did not address my other point that these article are from April and there have since been more conclusive studies on the efficacy of masks.
Sorry I confused you with the go hide under your bed insult throwing guy. You're the: you lack reading comprehension and literally believe taxes are akin to slavery, right?
Sorry I confused you with the go hide under your bed insult throwing guy. You're the: you lack reading comprehension and literally believe taxes are akin to slavery, right?
#775
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And one JV was what, like 2 Billion plus? 440M is a drop in the bucket compared to that. Won't matter, management will furlough. Just how many remains to be seen.
#776
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Also, the nursing homes are not to blame, the governors ordered them to accept the patients, or face criminal prosecution.
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And there’s $15B cash in the bank, with projections to get cash burn ~0 by year end. Furloughs are not a significant factor in getting to that. I don’t post anything on skynet but I wish someone would ask in the next town hall how they justify the need for furloughs from a financial and priority perspective.
If the current VEOP numbers hold or continue to increase, my WAG is that they end up furloughing between 2000 - 2100 pilots total and spare the extra as a buffer, ready to phase out the rest as needed based on requirements. I think they’ll try to release as many VEOPs as quickly as they can, but that will be a process, ensuring their replacements are in place. My guess is they release roughly 2/3rds of the VEOPs by next summer and furlough the remaining difference (~2100) down to the 10,069 requirement number we’ve been hearing about this October. I think they’ll take a training time out next summer, hold what they got, and release the rest of the VEOPs next fall, bringing the numbers even lower. One sentence that’s been bugging me in BS’s first email to us explaining the MOAD, said they want 9400 active pilots in Q3 2021. I think this is how they get there. They attrit VEOPs and regular mandatory retirements (non-VEOPs that chose to stick around) for that last 6-700 pilots down to 9400 next fall. And then they’ll start recalling furloughs early winter 2022 to plus back up to 10,100 for summer 2022.
Thats my best guess, again, it’s a WAG, and it assumes their goals are 10,069 active pilots summer 2021, 9400 active pilots Q3 2021, 10,100 active pilots summer 2022, with 1700ish VEOPs and about 2100 furloughs. I’m sure how this actually plays out will vary greatly based on how quickly/slowly they can release VEOPs, and how the economic recovery plays out over the next several months as well.
#780
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plenty of blame to go around on that one, including the nursing homes. But for sure people should be held accountable. The decision makers were in the areas first hard hit and were very concerned about hospital bed space. Nursing homes are medical facilities. They made imperfect decisions with incomplete information available.
since you’ve moved on from spreading misinformation and moved on to finger pointing let me ask you this: Would holding a political rally indoors be a “vector” for the virus? Would it be good judgment to hold such a rally today or last month knowing what we know now about the spread of the virus?
since you’ve moved on from spreading misinformation and moved on to finger pointing let me ask you this: Would holding a political rally indoors be a “vector” for the virus? Would it be good judgment to hold such a rally today or last month knowing what we know now about the spread of the virus?
Comparing somewhere where everyone has the choice to go to to a place where we house our most vulnerable population is an asinine comparison. But if political rallies in a controlled environment are bad, you must be vehemently against BLM rally’s given there was far less done to keep sick people away, right?