Coronavirus:

[HONDO74]

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Take your POLITICS and put 'em where the sun don't shine. You already have a zillion effin' threads on politics, post your crap in one of them.

[robert.]

" If you had the money to do so, you would remove your loved one from a group home or a nursing home,No question" Neil Yes i would. If i was allowed. Governor wolf made a mandate. nobody can leave a nursing home. People are still trying to remove loved ones. DR. Levine removed her mother while nobody else was allowed to. I have a friend trying to get her 40 year old daughter out of a place. She can't. Not allowed.

[rogruth]

Neil, I know all of that. It's like some SF stories and we don't know what would have happened.
But I'm thinking of just how much that event is ingrained in the south. No one is still alive from that time.
They just think they are. In this area there is still talk of the "GUMMINT" taking grandpas land to use for an
army base. They were paid 2-3 times the value of the land at that time. They still think that if the fort
closed they would get "their" land back. Never happen.

I have lived in Georgia since 1975 and one thing that we like is that they leaves us alone.
Most people are friendly but do not impose in any way. I have never asked my neighbor
why he flies a confederate flag, a Georgia flag but not the American flag. He has not
asked me about the American flag I fly.

I do ramble.

[Neil]

The pandemic is not a political problem, but the White House and some Republicans have turned it into a political issue, not me.

[Neil]

Southerners speaking of the War of Northern Aggression would akin to the Germans talking about WWII as the War of English, Russian and American aggression. Remember who fired the first shots. Remember who wants to evade responsibility for the evil that was slavery. The Civil War was ugly, like all wars, but the weight of guilt and responsibility for the mayhem lay primarily on the South in almost all respects.

[rogruth]

I should shut up and go away but what I am reading is just as hateful as anything I have ever heard from any unforgiving southern red neck.
No need for me to participate in this conversation any more. Thank you for your response.

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Spoken like a true gentleman Roger.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Spoken like a true gentleman Roger.

I've had the pleasure of meeting Roger in-person, which was at a TCA Meet @ York, Pa, and a gentleman he truly is. It's good to have his perspective on this forum .

[rogruth]

Spoken like a true gentleman Roger.

I've had the pleasure of meeting Roger in-person, which was at a TCA Meet @ York, Pa, and a gentleman he truly is. It's good to have his perspective on this forum .

Thank you all.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[bob turner]

Haven't been here for a while - am I wrong in assuming that politics is fair game in the Club Car Lounge? Isn't this analogous to "Rants & Raves?"

Reading a scary little book about the 1918 Pandemic. Just finished Laurie Garratt's tome on the coming plague, and now halfway through John Barry's "The Great Influenza."

Caveat - I know nothing about biology - almost flunked high school biology, and never took another course in anything remotely resembling that during 12 years of college/university study.

However - these things are viruses (virusi?) and they mutate rapidly. Let us fervently hope this thing does not track the 1918 virus for mutation. Now this is just from memory - maybe the dates are wrong? The 1918 virus was relatively benign in April 1918 - lots of folks got it worldwide; few died, and most got over it quickly. Then it mutated and exploded, with death rates over 10%. That happened in early September 1918.

This book is probably a "must read" if you are at all interested in medical history or flu epidemics.

Now, on a political note - if you are a Trumpkin, and believe this to be nothing more than a Democratic hoax or maybe a mild flu, please have some respect for those of us who are a bit worried. We still love you, even if we disagree with you, but please do not approach us without a mask. It just isn't polite, and it may in fact be dangerous to our health. Go without a mask only to those places where it is agreed is that masks are optional, like the Rose Garden. Going there maskless will not expose anyone who does not want to assume the risk.

[rogruth]

Bob,
Well said IMHO.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Haven't been here for a while - am I wrong in assuming that politics is fair game in the Club Car Lounge? Isn't this analogous to "Rants & Raves?"

Yes and no.......

Reading a scary little book about the 1918 Pandemic. Just finished Laurie Garratt's tome on the coming plague, and now halfway through John Barry's "The Great Influenza."

Caveat - I know nothing about biology - almost flunked high school biology, and never took another course in anything remotely resembling that during 12 years of college/university study.

Good reading; unfortunate higher education choices. I had no choice but to cram in all sorts of non-degree area course - they were good for me.

However - these things are viruses (virusi?) and they mutate rapidly. Let us fervently hope this thing does not track the 1918 virus for mutation. Now this is just from memory - maybe the dates are wrong? The 1918 virus was relatively benign in April 1918 - lots of folks got it worldwide; few died, and most got over it quickly. Then it mutated and exploded, with death rates over 10%. That happened in early September 1918.

It is "viruses". And, they may or not mutate, and it may or not be rapid. Rapid could be good or bad, but it could make a vaccine of dubious value depending on how that is made and what it actually targets. Reinfections are now being reported via mutations. We will find out one way or another, but whichever, it's not going to magically "go away".

[bob turner]

I did broaden my horizons, just not with biology or chemistry. I took Russian and French, Russian Lit, studied under Angela Davis and Herbert Marcuse along with some pretty big names in engineering and physics. Political Science minor, with a bit of philosophy thrown in. And four years of law - I can study viruses on my own time, and I will never be an expert, ever. Still, if this thing tracks, we could possibly be in for some trouble.

It could go away next month, but doubt it is gone at the moment. On the other hand, everything I know comes from TV, the LA Times, and the internet. I am not equipped to do my own research.

If you come around my hangar, please be polite and put on your mask?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I did broaden my horizons, just not with biology or chemistry. I took Russian and French, Russian Lit, studied under Angela Davis and Herbert Marcuse along with some pretty big names in engineering and physics. Political Science minor, with a bit of philosophy thrown in. And four years of law - I can study viruses on my own time, and I will never be an expert, ever. Still, if this thing tracks, we could possibly be in for some trouble.

We have already been in trouble for 7+ months and not enough people are understanding.

It could go away next month, but doubt it is gone at the moment. On the other hand, everything I know comes from TV, the LA Times, and the internet. I am not equipped to do my own research.

Diseases do not go away.

If you come around my hangar, please be polite and put on your mask?

I wear a mask wherever I go and have for many months. However, the odds of my getting to SD in the future are not good. I am not getting into a plane and not driving cross country. These folks organizing the O scale convention for next year may be facing a harsh reality.