Yellow over orange, why the camouflage! :)

(Written on 05/20/2022)(Permalink)

Easy solution here. All of the Dutch carriers announced they would read the government requirement during the Safety brief, but would not enforce it. Let the passengers fight each other rather the flight crew!

(Written on 04/15/2022)(Permalink)

It is a shame you did not mention the key finding in the first paragraph… The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. The pneumonia was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit the nose and throat invaded the lungs along a pathway created when the virus destroyed the cells that line the bronchial tubes and lungs. They would have survived the bacterial infection if the virus had not paved the way for it to succeed. Simple infections that succeed due to a compromised immune system are in fact the very reason hospitals try to get you home as soon as possible, because they by the very nature of their business are the meeting place for most of society’s virus and bacteria colonies.

(Written on 02/19/2022)(Permalink)

Assuming ing you are referring to Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers [Ann Intern Med . 2021 Mar;174(3):335-343. doi: 10.7326/M20-6817. Epub 2020 Nov 18.] You clearly have not read the article. They imposed a 50% effectiveness criteria as their bench mark and the study showed a 46% improvement, so in that sense it was a failure (against an arbitrary criteria), but if you cannot consider a 46% improvement as a valid argument against "masks do not work" there is simply no use in having scientific debate.

(Written on 02/18/2022)(Permalink)

Here is my data source: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination It shows unvaccinated deaths in the US at a rate 10x of those w vaccines. What is your data source? And please update Wikipedia on the Spanish Flu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu Spanish flu, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or the 1918 influenza pandemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus.

(Written on 02/18/2022)(Permalink)

It’s Government v. Personal Responsibility debate. For the record I had Covid prior to Vaccine availability and now have 3x shots and I work globally in some austere environments where general hygiene is still a mystery. I only wear a mask when forced to by law or policy. A tremendous disproportionate death rate to anti-vaxers during late 2021 is not the Government’s fault, by any measure and I am neither happy or sad about that, but I will not tolerate friends and family of the deceased anti-vaxers from stating anything other than it was his/her choice…period. Helmets, seat belts, vaccines and even masks save lives, but not all of them. Ignorant people think some safety measure is foolproof…sorry, but that is not how it works. I do not support mask mandates, but I do support personal acceptance of risk and you are free to choose whatever Safety measures, if any, you like…just do not blame anyone, or the government if there is a negative outcome. If you are compromised o

(Written on 02/18/2022)(Permalink)

BA would not send me out on a earlier nearly empty flight instead keeping me on the over sold later flight, even though I was early, willing, and able! Not only that, but with a horrible attitude!

(Written on 01/23/2022)(Permalink)

The return of personal responsibility will be a long road until a (or many) courageous leaders get elected and trickle down the concept through legislation, judge rulings, and administration policy and procedures. I for one am 100% behind it and the “carrot and stick” method should be applied. If a convicted child molester cannot hang out by a pre-school, then it is not a stretch to ban a convicted unruly felony assault passenger from aviation…why is the connection so hard to see? As Spock says, “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”

(Written on 12/17/2021)(Permalink)

Some classical music humor…not quite the Brandenburg “Concerto” they were hoping for! Thanks to JSB in 1721.

(Written on 12/17/2021)(Permalink)

As a PhD Chemical Engineer, I can assure everyone that the Hydrogen “fuel” story is very mis-leading. It is not a natural fuel like coal, crude oil, and natural gas, but rather a chemical plant product. Hydrogen comes from three main methods and are all energy consuming! 1) methane (natural gas) 2) coal gasification..duh from coal 3) electrolysis (water and a bunch of electricity) https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/hydrogen/production-of-hydrogen.php We are not making any more methane, coal, or water on Earth in anything other than geologic time scales, long after homo sapiens is gone, so to say you are “neutral” is simply false advertsing.

(Written on 12/17/2021)(Permalink)