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Trump has fired or sidelined the chief watchdogs for the intelligence community, the Pentagon, the Departments of Health, Transportation and now State. These transparent moves to shield his administration from oversight and accountability have been aided and abetted by the craven silence of congressional Republicans.

A review of the situation: Nothing substantial has changed biologically regarding the coronavirus. It still is happy to infect whenever and wherever it finds a host. There is not yet a proven safe & effective vaccine available, although that will eventually change. The only reason numbers currently are down is due to us starving the virus of new victims. As new hosts become available, the numbers will rise, especially the easier we make it for the virus to find a warm, moist host. We do not yet know everything about this virus, but we do know this one is especially contagious. Masks by themselves are proven not sufficient to stop infection. Good masks, goggles/face shields, 6' distance, frequent hand washing, avoiding eyes/mouth/nose contact with infected media, all together help in greatly reducing risk of infection, but may not be totally effective 100%. One can be infected but asymptomatic and spread the virus unaware to family, friends and co-workers. Symptoms vary, and can take a week or more to manifest, if at all. In some cases, hospitalization may follow about a week later, sedated intubation may follow a week after that. In extreme cases, death may follow quickly, or take weeks, or one may recover completely quickly or slowly, or recovery may result in lingering, perhaps permanent damage to certain organs and/or senses. The elderly and health-compromised are most at risk, but victims can come in any age and health status. Recovering survivors of those sick enough to be hospitalized describe an extremely unpleasent experience. As skydivers, we are used to understanding risks and devising technology, methodology and training to mitigate those risks. Good luck is always welcome, but we know better than to rely on it, because we know just how unreliable luck is. With careful and committed mitigation, we may know just enough to safely resume sport jumping, perhaps even student jumps. I am not at all convinced we yet know enough to safely resume Tandem jumping. For those choosing to Tandem jump at this time, please let us know the mitigation protocols you've implemented and how they are working. Any obvious symptoms should start manifesting some 2 weeks following infection.

That does a tremendous number on the lungs, almost like a cleaning, I bet.

One way to make it look like the infection rate is declining - fudge the dates on the graph. Does he think Georgians are stupid? (Maybe he's right). https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/18/only-america-is-sunday-day-after-thursday/?utm_campaign=wp_opinions&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_opinions

Don’t listen to Jerry McGee here. The Havok is a great suit, and the only people that bash them are ones that have no experience flying them. if you can’t keep up with a swift, you probably just don’t know how to fly a wingsuit. The Havok is a great suit, but 500 is steep for that old of technology.

President’s physician confirms Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine Pelosi is very level headed. After a couple social isolation sips of Canadian whiskey. I'd say triple the dose. In the morning I may have a different opinion. One opinion unlikely to change is F*#k is he stupid.

WOLVERINES!!!!

More or less. A lot of this stuff doesn't work the way people think it does - for instance did you know that a race was first defined as people who spoe the same language, therefore the first recorded racism was English people hating the French? In any event, he was right, you used an ethnic slur. Sure, but it's just your bigotry that makes it seem that way to you. Those you see as 'stomping' on Christianity - are they demanding outrage every time they see a church like you do with Mosques? Nope. In the other thread you just posted a list of ways that an enemy behaves. Why are you using it as an instruction manual? You've just hit points 12, 13 and 14 all in one sentence. Seriously, why can't you give a straight answer? Are you that embarrassed?

Yes, you are making it quite clear that fact and reality is inconvenient to your worldview. Again, you don't see it because you dont know what ethnicity is. An ethnic group does not have to be based on shared ancestry, genetics, place of birth or nationality. Like I said, I tried to stop you before you dug too deep but you're just too damn stubborn. Now for real, time for you to man up and explain why you lied about all the churches in Edinburgh.

Then why do you see "take your meds" as coming close to a personal attack? You chose to perceive it as such. Illusions of strength, getting a bit more concerning. Good, keep waiting.

sure. Is that not a ethnic slur?

I'd imagine at least to WW2, paratrooper training. I know they used some sort of hanging harness for PLF training; I wouldn't be surprised if they used them for EPs as well. It's a pretty natural extension. Wendy P.

Apparently he's an out of work jump pilot who said he'd take "any job you've got." He does have his mask and gloves on though.

Sally's real name was Sara Lee Rogers. I always thought that was fitting because of the old commercials:"Everybody doesn't like something,but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee"

Sad news. http://homernews.com/stories/090308/obits_22_010.shtml Blue skies Sally jon