Weather Inbound

Fair warning.

Today was the last nice day for probably the next four days.  I flew with the tailwheel lady this morning, and she went backwards.  I mean in ability, not literally backwards in the plane.  lol  We had about a 5 knot crosswind component, and it was enough to throw off the pattern, approach, level off, flare, take off, all of it.  It was sort of a mess.  I called it off before she wanted to because we weren't accomplishing anything good.

Then my eyes started running and I started sneezing and my allergies just kicked in hard, and instead of going to CVS and going through the car wash and checking our mail and doing a few other things I was planning on doing, I just came home and took a Claritin D and haven't really done anything since.  I'll do all that other stuff tomorrow.

These are screenshots of some data put out on the news tonight for the state of Indiana.  Take a look.  Also, Dr. Fauci says that leaving the lock downs too soon could cause a resurgence of the virus that gets "out of control", and that this is too soon.  He says that the numbers of reported cases are probably way under the reality.  Dr. Birx, on the other hand, thinks that the numbers of reported cases are probably way over the reality, by about 25%.  Both are experts we should believe, and both are polar opposites in their opinions on the numbers.  So, back to Fauci saying we should stay in lockdown because we'll have a resurgence.  He also said that the vaccine may very well not be effective.  So tie this up in a bow for me.  How and when do we leave the house then?  If there isn't an effective vaccine in 18 mo to 2 years from now, still, and we can never leave because the curve, while flattened, now has to be permanently gone before we can leave, because there will ALWAYS be a resurgence when people start getting out, right, and the vaccine may not really help us anyway 1-2 years from now, then WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE PEOPLE??  Yes I'm shouting.  Where it leaves us is dying broke and penniless in our homes (or evicted out into the streets), but because we'd be dying from something besides COVID, that would be okay??  C'mon.  What are they doing here?  What's their plan, then?  When exactly do we start reopening, if not now?  What's going to have changed in a month?  Two?  A year?  Just wait and HOPE it does?  Look at Indiana's statistics.  Look at our RT number here.  https://rt.live/.  What they're doing is giving credence to the conspiracy theory that this has become a plan to oust Trump by pulling off a rigged paper election and an economy they won't let heal.  They're giving credence to the conspiracy theory that they're trying to keep "dementia Joe" out of the public spotlight and off the campaign trail so people can't see how bad off he really is.  They're giving credence to the conspiracy theory that this is some big test to see how far they can push Americans, and how much money the Fed can just fart out and fund all their pet projects and how many people won't say anything because it has a catchy name like "HERO".   They're making ME put on a tin foil hat and think that every time they post the next news story about the "mystery illness" kids are coming down with, they're trying to pump up the Karens of the world into insisting on keeping their children home from school for another year to help their plan.  I don't want to hear "Stay home and save lives", because that's done, and NOW WHAT.  What's YOUR plan, if it's not to slowly reopen and resume?  Don't just tell me the potential bad of reopening, you tell me what your plan is if we don't.  I'm waiting.

I ranted here so I wouldn't do it on Facebook.  Stick with pretty pictures, Laura.

So first up are two pictures of the small church Kaylee sometimes attends.  This is the kind of place that makes me feel peaceful.  Quiet, open spaces, simple, gentle, peaceful.

Then the statistics.

We live in the top 2.9% county, bordering the 1.9% and the .6% infection rate counties.

So. just over 1/2 of a percent of infected people in Indiana died from it, almost half of the people infected with it showed no symptoms at all.  The vast majority of deaths around the country were in nursing homes, where they say the average lifespan of residents is about a year, and another new study by another expert says most of them probably would have passed away anyway, COVID or no.  But we can all pick and choose which experts we want to believe, now can't we.

Also, these guys flew over Kokomo today, and rattled my kitchen.  That was great.  :)

Also, I think this article has a few valid points to consider as well.