Delta Connection EMB175s

[GogglesPisano]

Thank-you, media. And thank-you gullible, paranoid sheep-public

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Thank-you, media. And thank-you gullible, paranoid sheep-public

No kidding. I guess the doom and gloom of the economy was getting old. This livens it up a little bit.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Thank-you, media. And thank-you gullible, paranoid sheep-public

Yeah, no kidding! It's the flu, you get it, you throw up, and you get on with your life.

I think I'm going to start wearing a rubber pig nose, and conduct my welcome aboard from the forward cabin.

 

[~~~^~~~]

much ado about nothing...

On CNN Lou Dobbs is waiving his bad hair dye job telling people the government should be shutting down everything and has been nearly criminally negligent for not getting out the truth. 10 minutes later Anderson Cooper says this virus lacks an amino acid needed for spreading the contagion and that this is going to be a mild flu. That the most dangerous part of flying remains the drive to the airport.

Since Lou Dobbs dyes his hair and Anderson Cooper does not, guess I'll believe the guy with two last names since he "keeps it real" and it makes more sense with the objective numbers we see.

Flu will be last week's news, next week. We need another Lindsay Lohan lesbian sighting to get the news properly refocused on nothing that matters. My vote is on a Lindsay / Michelle Rodriquez lash up.

ACL65: I hear the "Free Credit Report dot Com" band needs a drummer. Maybe a good furlough gig.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

My FIN.

Quit watching the news, that will help ya!

Look at land and beach homes, it makes the soul feel better!

 

[~~~^~~~]

Beach front? How about River Front, with a van down by whatever that body of water is that flows by the Detroit Airport?

No crime. The gang members are afraid to go near that water.

 

[jeff8]

Beach front? How about River Front, with a van down by whatever that body of water is that flows by the Detroit Airport?

No crime. The gang members are afraid to go near that water.

Thanks for the good laugh.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Hey at least you are looking at it.

 

[~~~^~~~]

Got all I need for my furlough Gig audition:

G C D C
Check it out gas prices going up sky high
G C D C
Ditch my used sub-compack for a 2 wheel drive
G C D C
Now I'm rolling eco friendly But I still look bad
G C
When the bike store saw my credit
D C
They said this is all they had

I'm singin'
G C D C G
C D C
F to the R to the E to the E to the C to the R to the E D I T
G C D C
RE to the PORT to the dot to the com
G C D C
Come on everybody grab your bikes and sing along
[its easy]

Either that, or spokesman for Enzyte.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Not sure what to think that you took the time to do this......

 

[~~~^~~~]

Being in a Boy Band gets more chicks than "airline pilot."

 

[NuGuy]

I think ACL is gaming possible outcomes dependent on how bad this gets. I have no doubt management is. It might amount to nothing more than a large number of regular seasonal flu type illnesses. Finger crossed.

Some history lessons are in order - even without the Avian flu going human to human, a flu strain with the virulence of the 1918 Spanish Flu would cause global economy to grind to a crawl in a matter of months.

In the Spanish Flu healthy adults woke up in the morning feeling fine and were dead by evening. Whole communities were wiped out. Mortality was close to 20%. Estimates between 20,000,000 and 100,000,000 killed with a much less mobile society and a world population far less than today.

This is not at what we are looking at so far. OTOH it would be foolish not to consider what would happen should it develop into something like that. All bets are off at that point.

Of course sick calls and mortality among pilots might be self correcting reference any measures that need to be taken.

Heyas F4H,

If we got a REAL influenza, like the Spanish Flu strain, people would quickly lose their bearings in this country.

Most of the third world is essentially unchanged from the turn of the last century. Pain, disease, starvation, death, all in large numbers. A bad flu bug with a high mortality rate is just another day in the life.

In this country, people lose their minds over a bus wreck that kills 10 people or a child that falls down a sewer pipe. Sad, to be sure, but in the big scheme of things, hardly a blip. Even 9/11 was a distant event, only watched on TV for most people. It made you angry, but your person was still relatively safe in East Butthole, Minnesota.

OTOH, with a BAD influenza, where 1 in 5 (or heck, even 1 in 10) of the people YOU KNOW, in YOUR home town start dropping, then it becomes personal. This country is woefully unprepared for a catastrophe on such a personal level. Anything on a level even remotely similar to the Spanish Flu is unthinkable.

Everyone is accustomed to believing that they will receive only top notch medical care. If something like this got pumped up and went the distance, most hospitals would be QUICKLY overwhelmed. Pumped up by the inevitable media frenzy...it becomes a terrible thing to contemplate.

This doesn't even look at the economic effects. The Spanish Flu affected the most healthy, productive part of society. Lose %10-20 overall, but %30-40 of the productive work force INCLUDING a chunk of your health care workers, and you are FUXORED for a long time. Not armageddon, but a VAST retrenchment in the economy, from which would take at least a decade to recover.

JMHO...YMMV....

Nu

 

[FBN0223]

Got all I need for my furlough Gig audition:

G C D C
Check it out gas prices going up sky high
G C D C
Ditch my used sub-compack for a 2 wheel drive
G C D C
Now I'm rolling eco friendly But I still look bad
G C
When the bike store saw my credit
D C
They said this is all they had

I'm singin'
G C D C G
C D C
F to the R to the E to the E to the C to the R to the E D I T
G C D C
RE to the PORT to the dot to the com
G C D C
Come on everybody grab your bikes and sing along
[its easy]

Either that, or spokesman for Enzyte.

Hey, also the cords for Neil Diamond's "Cherry Cherry".
Cool!! I think?!

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

I think every pop song ever written is GCD.... and watch out for that sneaky Em!

 

[~~~^~~~]

Well, at least every Buffett and Tom Petty tune. Throw in Am and you got Lynyrd Skynyrd. But I'm convinced Dave Matthews has a sixth digit.

Why can't there be more Mark Knopflers and fewer Myley Cyrus's?