2021 archive
The Silence 2
Perhaps what I remember most about this date 20 years ago is the silence.
Someone heard the news of the bombing in New York and a number of persons watched bits and pieces of the coverage on the lunch room television if their duties allowed. My workplace at the time was in New Jersey across the river from Philadelphia International Airport.
The main runway at Philadelphia International Airport runs generally in a west-south-west/east-north-east orientation. In easterly winds, airliners from the west would commonly fly by Philly to the north, turn right, fly south over New Jersey, then make a sweeping U-turn back across the Delaware river for their final approach to the main runway; otherwise, airliners headed north would take the reverse course, taking off in a generally WSW direction, then swinging back over New Jersey to head north or to take the great circle route to Europe. They didn’t fly right over my work place, but we could hear them and see them in the east, especially if we were outside in the smoking area.
We heard no airliners that day.
Maskless Marauders 0
Microbiologist Michael LaGier is fed up with those who spread lies and disinformation during a public health crisis. A nugget; follow the link for the complete article.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely.
A witness at the scene told officers and investigators that the man had been playing with the gun when it accidentally went off.
One more time, “accidentally” and “negligently” are not synonymous.
A Diet of Worms, One More Time 0
Rebecca Watson takes another deep dive, this time into truths and falsehoods about ivermectin, the livestock anti-worm medication.
She suggests that, even as falsehoods about ivermectin’s being a treatment COVID must be debunked, so too must falsehoods about its legitimate usage and possible side effects.
Methinks she has a point.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
School Daze 0
Sam and his crew discuss a report from a parent about Texas schools and COVID.
“Whatever You Say May Be Used against You . . . .” 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t and the internet is a public place.
And no one’s watching the watchers, not even the persons paid to watch the watchers.
Mission Creeps 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, one who has experience with military strategy, makes an important point. I do not necessarily agree with every word and sentence, but his main point is quite relevant to dis coarse discourse. A snippet:
To make valid command decisions, there must be a definite mission presented.
(snip)
What was our defined mission in Vietnam? Other than getting Obama bin Laden and his group, what was our defined mission for entering and remaining in Afghanistan?
Vaccine Nation 0
And it’s not just one state, folks.
And this would have been made much less likely, perhaps even prevented, if more people got their health information from authoritative sources, rather than from Republican governors and Fox News and “social” media, but, noooooooo, because we are a society of stupid.