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Influenza

Going Viral: Operation Warp Speed proves leftist-liberal news media wrong!

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CoViD-19=Corona-Virus-Disease 2019

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Chris Miller receives the CoViD-19 vaccine, 14DEC2020.

When U.S. President Donald Trump promised a CoViD vaccine by the end of 2020 the main stream news media, their scientific medical ‘experts’, and even Joe Biden, stopped short of calling President Trump a fool.  Now that the U.S. has several CoViD vaccines the news media refuses to acknowledge Trump’s promise!

Operation Warp Speed is a President Donald Trump ordered partnership among components of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Defense, to produce and deliver 300-million doses of safe and effective vaccines as a part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing and distribution of CoViD-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics.

Video, Operation Warp Speed reminds you how wrong the U.S. news media, and Joe Biden, was:

Under Operation Warp Speed, U.S. Marshals Service is working with United Parcel Service to distribute vaccines, 14DEC2020.

U.S. Marshals Service working with Federal Express to distribute vaccines under Operation Warp Speed, 14DEC2020.

U.S. Army leaders meet with executives of Walgreens Boots Alliance to discuss Operation Warp Speed vaccine distribution, 16NOV2020.

Operation Warp Speed video explaining what to expect when you get your CoViD-19, keep in mind the video was made on 19NOV2020:

Here’s a list of FAQs by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia concerning CoViD-19 vaccines, such as the fact that multiple shots will be needed and nobody knows how long you’ll be immune after getting the shots (it’s assumed that people who’ve been infected are immune for no more than three months): Questions and Answers about COVID-19 Vaccines

Here’s a list of links to news media articles about the vaccines:

Trump administration makes deal for millions more CoViD vaccines for next year  (who’s paying for all this, especially when so many taxpayers have lost their jobs?)

FDA warns of side effects of CoViD vaccines

Despite CoViD vaccine California orders thousands of body bags

Health workers in Contra Costa County first to get CoViD vaccines in California

In Colorado, minorities are suspicious of CoViD vaccines

Healthcare workers at Veteran’s Hospital first to get CoViD vaccines in Minnesota

University of Utah health workers first to get CoViD vaccines in Utah

Big Brother/Sister-ism as people are given CoViD “Got my vaccine” stickers 

International shenanigans:

U.S. movie maker Oliver Stone opts for Russian CoViD vaccine!

Russia begins mass CoViD vaccination using Sputnik V vaccine
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With First Dibs on Vaccines, Rich Countries Have ‘Cleared the Shelves’

Going Viral: NEGATIVE PRESSURE FLYING HOSPITALS?

Going Viral, February 2020: PRO-VACCINE GOVERNMENT ADMITS 700% INFECTION RATE CAUSED BY FAILED VACCINE!!!

Technology

B-25: Old Glory goes down for the 2nd time

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California farm field, 19SEP2020. Photo by San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.

After spending most of the year flying at various locations across the United States, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two (click this link to see pics and video interview with current owner), a B-25 Mitchell named Old Glory (44-28938) cashed, for the second time in its post-war career.

Photo via San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.

According to California’s San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office, on 19SEP2020 the crew of Old Glory reported a mechanical problem and made an emergency landing in a Stockton farm field.  The emergency landing turned into a crash landing after the old bomber got tripped-up by an irrigation ditch.  The three crewmen suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Photo via San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.

News reports stated that this was the second time the restored combat veteran had crashed.  The first time was near Reno, Nevada, in 1987.  The dedicated owners spent 18-thousand hours repairing and restoring the damaged B-25, completing the job in 1995.  It was then that B-25N 44-28938 got the name Old Glory.

Old Glory on Honolulu, Hawaii, 25AUG2020. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Gabriel Davis.

Towards the end of 2019, Old Glory was purchased by The Prescott Foundation-Hanger743 of New York.  During WW2 it operated over the Mediterranean with the 12th Army Air Force (specific squadron still unknown).  Following the war it was converted to TB-25N radio navigation trainer, then to a waterbomber.  In 1978, B-25N 44-28938 began its current career as a flying museum exhibit, under the pseudonyms Dream Lover and Spirit of Tulsa.

Old Glory take-off in Hawaii, end of August 2020, video by Austin Rooney.  Unfortunately there is no audio:

The Prescott Foundation states they are cooperating with the NTSB’s (National Transportation Safety Board) investigation into the crash of Old Glory.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Ryan J. Sonnier, 16SEP2019.

What it is like flying on Old Glory, end of August 2020, video by Private Carlie Lopez (edited by me):

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jaimar Carson Bondurant.

This link has pics and vid of Old Glory being off loaded from a big U.S. Navy boat, for a big taxpayer funded air show.

COLD WAR S-A-C FLEW WORLD WAR TWO B-25 MITCHELLS

B-25 FLAMIN’ MAIMIE WAS AS COLD AS ICE!

B-25 ¡PANCHITO!

Business/Economics, Influenza, International

“…a potential wipe out of an entire generation…”: Pandemic lockdowns prove to be worse than the Pandemic!

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12 October 2020 / 10:27 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 21 Mehr 1399/24 Safar 1442/26 Bing-Xu 4718

Incomplete list of links to official reports from around the world:

David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for CoViD-19, warned in 08OCT2020 video interview, with the Spectator’s The Week in 60 Minutes, admits that nobody knows how to properly respond to CoViD and that lockdowns could be worse than the pandemic:  “We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control…..  …..lockdowns have just one consequence….making poor people an awful lot poorer.”

This is from a UN WHO report about the economic realities of lockdowns and mass-testing, made public in July 2020: “In larger populations, however, such comprehensive surveillance may be impracticable or too costly and the test workload may rapidly outstrip capacity and resources….. long-term lockdowns may not be an option because economic necessity could preclude self-isolation.”

Despite what some leftist liberal environmentalists said about the pandemic lockdowns reducing pollution, the facts show the opposite happened! 

Wheat Prices Skyrocket After Dry Weather, Coronavirus Lockdowns

 

AUSTRALIA: Discriminatory lockdowns being imposed? 

JAPAN: Suicide Spike in Japan Shows Mental Health Toll of Covid-19

MALAWI: ‘Drastic rise’ in suicide rate linked to Covid economic downturn

UNITED KINGDOM: Local lockdowns dreamed up in London are causing nightmares for the rest of England

UNITED STATES: “You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown

Military leaders say active-duty suicides up 20% during COVID-19 pandemic

 

1-million federal tax dollar grant funds COVID-19 Emergency Suicide Prevention program in Rhode Island

 

05OCT2020 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers video report, by Michael Glasch, revealing that responding to natural disasters is being made more complicated due to CoViD-19 restrictions:  

 The American Institute for Economic Research declares “COVID lockdowns unnecessary”

Arizona National Guard delivers a trailer full of food and supplies to the Navajo Nation, 06OCT2020.  Since the beginning of the outbreak the Arizona National Guard took over transportation of food throughout the state.

Arizona National Guard stock the shelves of a food pantry in Sun City, 09OCT2020.  Since the beginning of the outbreak in the U.S., the Arizona National Guard took over civilian food operations across the state.

  California university doctors say lockdowns are worse than the pandemic! 

A sign your system has failed; 08OCT2020 video report by Staff Sergeant Eddie Siguenza, California National Guard delivers record 100-million meals to people due to CoViD lockdown:

Pop-up food pantries a new tactic to fight CoViD lockdown food insecurity in Illinois.

  The Covid-19 pandemic will be outlasted by the grief pandemic — and no one is preparing for it

My 3-year-old was handling the pandemic well. Then his mom was diagnosed with cancer.

New York’s Roosevelt Hotel to close after nearly 100 years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Is NYC’s lockdowns actually about making up lost tax revenues?Over $150,000 in Fines Issued on First Weekend of New NYC Lockdown

Pet food pantry reports skyrocketing number of families needing help with pets, but at same time crashing numbers of people who can volunteer to help, all blamed on CoViD-19 lockdowns!

04OCT2020, video report by Staff Sergeant Bradley Tipton, U.S. Reserve military units from Florida talk about sudden call-up to deploy to NYC for new massive lockdown operations:

Number of divorce cases in DC area surge amid coronavirus pandemic .
Texas teachers are afraid to return to school.
05OCT2020, Texas National Guard taking part in food growing operations in San Antonio, as part of Joint Task Force Longhorn.  Texas mobilized its Guard units in April 2020, for CoViD-19 response.
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Wisconsin blames CoViD-19 restrictions for more job layoffs and increased food insecurity.

Cybercriminals steal 8-billion tax dollars worth of Covid relief funds

U.S. airline industry already got 50-billion in taxpayer funded CoViD-19 support, now it demands another $25-billion, or else!

03OCT2020: COVID-19 SHENANIGANS

18SEP2020: COVID-19 = ECONOMIC & SOCIAL DEATHS OF DESPAIR!

U.S. Army warns of new pandemic: CHIKrisk 2021

Business/Economics, Influenza, Technology

CoViD-19 = economic & social Deaths of Despair!

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18 September 2020 / 07:46 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 28 Shahrivar 1399/30 Muharram 1442/02 Yi-You(8th month) 4718

“You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown

Below is an incomplete list of links to some of the many real news media reports about the suicidal impact of coronavirus 2019 lockdowns.

“Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities ‘deaths of despair’.“-Betsy McCaughey

New York Times-A tsunami of job cuts is about to hit Europe.
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CANADA:  Suicide rates expected to rise as COVID-19 grinds on

CHINA: Children in China Experienced an Increase in Depression and Suicidal Attempts During COVID School Closures

INDIA:  Covid-19 patient commits suicide

KOREA: Suicide rates among young Korean women on the rise

German news media reports that South Korea’s suicide/self-harm rate is up due to CoViD-19

THAILAND: 22% increase in suicide blamed on CoViD-19

UNITED KINGDOM: Male suicide rate hits two-decade high in England and Wales.
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UNITED STATES:  More young people are dying by suicide, and experts aren’t sure why.
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Arizona Army National Guard works to assemble and distribute PPE, 02SEP2020.

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Colorado: 40% decrease in suicides, yet 48% increase in suicide hotline calls, during CoViD-19 lockdowns

Denver Regional Transportation District revises budget projections downward (again) due to crashing revenues, could eliminate 500 jobs!  Fails to mention CoViD-19 lockdowns which prevent people from getting out-and-about and using public transportation.

Florida:  A major financial company eliminating more than 500 jobs, and blames it on CoViD-19! 

SeaWorld confirms nearly 1,900 layoffs!
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Georgia: Atlanta Braves have layoffs ahead of playoffs

Hawaii: Hawaiian Airlines expands CoViD-19 layoffs to 2-thousand-501 jobs! 

National Guard conduct ‘surge’ testing in the Tetsuo Harano Tunnel, 03SEP2020.

U.S. Army video revealing that even army training is being severely impacted by CoViD-19 fearmongering on Wheeler Army Base:

Idaho:  Despite boasting that year on year suicide rate is down, The Gem State still has the highest self-kill rate in the U.S., but now they blame CoViD-19.

Also, and despite boasting that year on year suicide rate being down, self-kill rate for youths using guns is actually up. 

Illinois: Concerns rise over teen suicide rate during pandemic

Indiana: Layoffs coming to LaPorte’s Howmet Aerospace

Iowa: Des Moines based publishing/news media empire Meredith Corporation eliminating at least 180 jobs due to crashing advertising revenues caused by CoViD-19 fearmongering by (ironically) the news media and state governments!

Kansas: Another round of layoffs at Spirit Aerosystems 

Kentucky: Operations and Planning officer Joel Tiotuico claims that he worked on a 2007 flu pandemic war game/table-top scenario, at Fort Knox, which is eerily similar to what is happening with CoViD-19.  The original article about the 2007 flu pandemic wargame was published in the now defunct Turret newspaper.

Massachusetts: Waltham based Raytheon Technologies eliminating 15-thousand jobs due to the crashing airline industry, which in turn is blamed on the CoViD-19 fearmongering by governments and news media worldwide! 

Citing COVID-19 economic impact, Red Sox announce more layoffs.

Michigan: 

Michigan National Guard’s now permanent COVID-19 Joint Task Force continues to distribute food to the public, 03SEP2020.

Minnesota: Hotel to eliminate 126 jobs due to CoViD-19 lockdowns restricting travel

Nevada:  Several Las Vegas companies report layoffs

New Jersey: State administrators claims suicides went down, yet also report skyrocketing ‘helpline’ calls

10-thousand More Layoffs statewide as Coronavirus Economic Impact Continues.
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New Mexico: Farmington reports spike in suicides

New York: More proof hospitals are not full of CoViD-19 patients; Buffalo based Delaware North eliminates 517 food service jobs at its hospital operations, on top of the 100 jobs eliminated two months ago, ostensibly due to CoViD-19!  

The City of New York says it could still eliminate 22-thousand jobs due to crashing tax/fee revenues caused by the city’s own CoViD-19 lockdown!

NYC based debt financier Citi to continue with CoViD-19 layoffs

Adelphi University eliminating 62 jobs and blaming CoViD-19.

The Schenectady school board approved dozens of additional CoViD-19 layoffs.

JCC of Rochester laying off 296 employees due to effects of fitness center restriction.
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North Carolina: Duke University study says suicide rates might increase as result of financial strain from COVID-19

North Dakota:  Microsoft confirmed to local news media that layoffs will impact its Fargo campus, but refused to give any details.

Pennsylvania: COVID-19 school closings linked to increase in depression

Texas: Texas psychologists worry the suicide rate will rise 

Round Rock based tech giant Dell plans to layoff an unspecified number of employees this week, blaming declining sales on the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. 

Washington: Puget Sound suicide hotline reports 65% spike in calls for help during pandemic

West Virginia:  Video update on state National Guard CoViD-19 response, as of 09SEP2020;

 

Wisconsin: Suicide Rate In Wisconsin Increased 40 Percent

More economic decline for Eastern Idaho: COVID-19 SHUTDOWN 24HRS WINCO?

Sears-Kmart death spiral, June 2019: “WE ARE THROWING IN THE TOWEL”

U.S. economic collapse, December 2018: “WE WERE HIT SO HARD…WE CAN’T RECOVER”

Idaho, Influenza

Southeast Idaho Pandemic Road-Trip

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Washed and waxed and ready to go!

On 23 June 2020, perhaps too much self-restricting pandemic lockdown (I say “self-restricting” as most of us in Eastern Idaho are not adhering to CoViD-19 lockdown, and even the local Sheriff departments refuse to enforce such things) forced me to hit the road for a scenic road-trip from Chubbuck to Bear Lake, Idaho, in my 2010 Dodge Challenger SRT-8.  I was accompanied by one of my daughters, Aryssa May Hutchins (who took 90% of the photos), and Andrew ‘Bulletproof Family Photos’ Erickson.

Aryssa says there’s plenty of room in the backseat.

No Crouching Tiger here.

Heading south.

Immediately I noticed how green everything is, especially since it’s the end of June.   Between 2011 and 2013 I drove courier routes all across Eastern Idaho, including to Montpelier near Bear Lake, and by June everything was bone dry and brown.  2012 was the year the south end of the city of Pocatello burned (June 2012: POCATELLO BURNING! EVACUATIONS! SOUTHEAST IDAHO BURNING! BANNOCK COUNTY BANS FIREWORKS, DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY!), it was a busy fire year.

A lot has changed since then; my children all became adults and moved away to the evil metro-ville called Boise, my house was paid-off the same year I lost my Mail Handler job at the U.S. Postal Service’s Gateway Station (I tried reapplying online as a Clerk but got an instant message saying I wasn’t ‘qualified’ to apply for that position) and apparently my age is keeping me from getting hired by any of the local employers I’ve applied at thus forcing me to live off my children’s ‘inheritance’ (ha, fortunately they’re all financially better-off than I was at their ages), my parents died which in turn forced me to realize I wasn’t getting any younger and I had not fulfilled one of my personal promises to acquire a muscle car (having sold-off my muscle car projects in the early 1980s due to the skyrocketing costs of becoming a spouse and parent) thus providence led me to a one-of-a kind (for Eastern Idaho) second-hand Dodge Challenger SRT-8 with 6-speed manual transmission and low mileage.  The original owner was forced to sell due to a back surgery that left her unable to engage the clutch pedal without pain.  Ironically she bought the Challenger brand new from the Dodge dealer in Pocatello for the same reasons I wanted to buy it; loss of relatives reminding her that she was not getting any younger, and reminiscing about her young adult days driving muscle cars in the 1970s (yes, many women owned and drove their own muscle cars back in the days when feminists were burning their bras for ‘equality’).

Cache National Forest

Face masks are mandatory!

U.S. National Forest Service’s Minnetonka Cave (aka Caverns), be careful, the steps and handrails in the cavern are wet and slick as ice.  Also, you better be in shape, there’s a lot of steep climbing and wearing the face-masks makes you feel like you’re going to suffocate.

Minnetonka supposedly means Falling Water, or Great Water.  There is a lot of water coming down inside the cave, through earthquake fault lines that run through the cave ceiling.

The tour guide tried to convince me that I was looking at Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Statue of Liberty?

Bring your neon-black light flash light, these rock are radioactive (high phosphorus content)!

They call it Stairway to Heaven, I calls it Stairway OF Hell!

Can you see the petrified Hypno-Toad?

Some bats were fluttering around, the tour guide seemed concerned.

I survived, but wait, this isn’t where I parked the car!

I always regret bringing a jacket, I end up soaked with sweat.  The cave is a constant 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 Celsius), but you wouldn’t know it because you overheat climbing up and down the very steep stairs.

There appears to be some faces in the rock-face of this outcrop above us.

Rock spirits of Minnetonka!

We hadn’t planned on going to Bear Lake but its bright blue water beckoned us as we came down off the mountain. We’re now suffering with solar induced radiation poisoning (sunburn), in other words we got fried.

“I gotta rock!”

Arriving at the North Beach of Bear Lake we discovered it was packed.  After paying the Idaho State Parks $5 parking fee at the gate on the west entrance, I drove all the way to the east end to find a parking spot.  Being Idahoans we counted license plates, one or two vehicles with Idaho plates, at least three with Oregon plates, at least 90% of the vehicles had Utah plates, I facetiously hope we don’t get sick with all those domestic foreigners around.   Most of the beach area was wall-to-wall people and despite ‘the age of CoViD-19’ nobody was wearing masks or ‘social distancing’, but what we should have done was protect ourselves from the Sun.

Gulliver goes renegade on the tiny Lilliputians!

Bear Lake’s North Beach is shallow, you can walk out for a while with the water getting no higher than your mid-thigh.  Some spots are soft sand while other areas are rocky.

Speaking of getting fried, we got hungry and headed back to a row of locally run tourist shops in the tiny town of Saint Charles, including North Beach Burgers that sells ‘gourmet’ burgers and shakes. I got the elk meat burger, Andrew got the bacon-black & blue-burger, Aryssa got the standard bacon cheeseburger, and we split a huckleberry shake.

Goes off every hour.

On the way back to Chubbuck we stopped in Soda Springs to refuel the car (it had just a little more than half a tank when we started the road-trip), and with The Fates on our side, hit the ‘captive’ (human-made) Geyser as it went off.

In the past I’ve seen people collecting this sulfur rich water for drinking purposes!

East Side

West Side

Close-up of wooden railing on the West Side of the geyser. Decades of mineralized overspray is petrifying the fence.

Soda Springs also claims to have Idaho’s oldest pharmacy, Eastman Drug, where we found this old 1950s era Mack firetruck.

Interstate-15 has a maximum passenger vehicle speed of 80 miles per hour (128 kilometers per hour) within Idaho, but once you take the Soda Springs turnoff the state highway speed is maxed at 65 mph (104 kph) with lots of drops to 35 and even 25 mph (56-40 kph) going through the many small towns along the way.  My 425 horsepower 6.1 Liter (372 cubic inches) hemi V8 managed to average 23 miles per gallon, something my early 1970s muscle car projects (with larger 6.2 L/383 ci and 7.2 L/440 ci motors pumping out less stock-factory horsepower) would be hard pressed to achieve even with the then 55 mph (88 kph) max speed limit on interstates, back then.

Photo of my dad with my Canadian built 1971 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus, 383 ci V8 with 3-speed automatic transmission, circa 1983-84.

Don’t let CoViD-19 get you down, get out and drive!

August 2017: POCATELLO AIRPORT FIRE BOMBERS ARE BACK!

More Economic Decline: COVID-19 SHUTDOWN 24HRS WINCO?

Bannock County’s ROAD TO NOWHERE

Bannock County’s WHITE ELEPHANT

A History Lesson in Economic Decline: POCATELLO’S OLD FRED MEYER & ALBERTSONS ON YELLOWSTONE AVE, DID NOT CLOSE DOWN IN THE 1990S

Road Trip 2011: ANCIENT NUCLEAR POWERED JET ENGINE FOUND IN IDAHO DESERT, PROOF OF ANCIENT ALIEN VISITORS?

Influenza, Technology

Pandemic Overflight: The Sandman Enters

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California Air National Guard photo by Lieutenant Colonel David Allamandola, 13MAY2020.

California Air National Guard’s 144th Fighter Wing flies their F-15C Eagles over Fresno, in hopes of scaring-off the CoViD-19, 13MAY2020.

Video, launching a few F-15Cs to fight California CoViD-19:

Video, cockpit view F-15C 144th FW flyover, 13MAY2020:

Florida Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Spencer Rhodes, 13MAY2020.

Florida Air National Guard 125th FW’s F-15Cs did battle with CoViD-19 over the Orange County Convention Center’s Pandemic testing operations, 13MAY2020.

U.S. Air Force photo by Erica Campbell, 14MAY2020.

F-15s from 96th Test Wing  flew over Florida on 14MAY2020.

SINGAPORE SKY PIRATES & IDAHO GUNSLINGERS flew a CoViD-19 salute on 15MAY2020, along with Idaho National Guard A-10Cs.

Over the mountains near Hailey, Idaho, 15MAY2020.

Louisiana Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Toby M. Valadie, 01MAY2020.

B-52 and F-15s over Louisiana, 01MAY2020.

Video, B-52s and F-15s over New Orleans:

Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Wing.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Michael Hong, 13MAY2020.

Two 104th FW F-15Cs off the coast of New Jersey, 13MAY2020.

Photo by Sanders Hall, 01MAY2020.

F-15E Strike Eagles fly over Onslow Memorial Hospital, North Carolina, 01MAY2020.

Video, Oregon National Guard 173rd Fighter Wing’s Sandman preps to join other F-15Cs for CoViD-19 overflight, 08MAY2020:

Video, F-15Cs doing battle against CoViD-19 in the skies over Oregon, 08MAY2020:

Video, Oregon National Guard 173rd FW’s Sandman preps to join other F-15Cs for yet another CoViD-19 overflight, 15MAY2020:

Pandemic Overflight: A-10C (FOR COVID?) THUNDERBOLT-2

B-52, BOMB THE VIRUS BACK TO THE STONEAGE!

KC-135

C-130 HERKS FOR HEROES

F-15 Eagle: NEW TAIL FEATHERS FOR OREGON EAGLE

Influenza

“Insidious” infection onboard USS Kidd, crew replaced?

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You might have heard about the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with the controversial administrative treatment of the commander who tried to warn of the CoViD-19 infection, and that the crew was replaced while docked in Guam, but what about the USS Kidd (DDG 100)?

28APR2020, USS Kidd (not to be confused with World War Two era USS Kidd DD 661, or Cold War era USS Kidd DDG 993) arrives in San Diego, California, for quarantine.  Video of arrival:

On 06MAY2020, U.S. Naval Institute News reported a “insidious” outbreak aboard USS Kidd, and just like their silly-vilian counterparts, the U.S. Navy is using mathematical ‘models’ to guesstimate the spread of CoViD-19: “When we started out this process, I started to say it was an algebra problem for us. Then it became differential equations, and then it went to multivariable calculus, and in many respects now it’s almost theoretical physics trying to figure out what is the right thing to do.”-Vice Admiral Richard Brown, commander of Naval Surface Forces and Naval Surface Force Pacific

The latest USN information revealed that while docked in San Diego most of the crew of USS Kidd was replaced (aka Crew Swap).  A skeleton crew was initially left aboard for daily operations, until a ‘caretaker crew’ could take over.

The caretaker crew is conducting ‘strategic deep-cleaning’ and daily operations of the ship.  As of 18MAY2020, 90 of the original crew tested negative for CoViD-19 (multiple times) and were allowed back onboard: “Before we clear any Sailor to return to the ship, they must receive two separate negative test results.”-Vice Admiral Richard Brown, commander of Naval Surface Forces and Naval Surface Force Pacific

Video, initial medical screening of USS Kidd personnel in San Diego, on 28APR2020:

The first influenza-like illnesses showed up in early April while the USS Kidd was taking part in counter-drug-running operations in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean.

On 06APR2020, USS Kidd personnel were making their own cloth masks, and trying as best they could on a crowded ship to maintain social-distance.  By April 22nd a Sailor had to be medevac-ed off the ship, the next day additional medical staff arrived to begin testing the crew.

Deep cleaning of the USS Kidd is expected to continue until the end of May.

U.S.

Michigan militia flood rescues

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“I heard about the flooding about 30-minutes after the first dam collapsed.  I received a call from my command around 11pm last night to come in right away and have been working since.”-Private First Class Lydia Humphrey, 1073rd Maintenance Company, Michigan Army National Guard

In northern Michigan the Edenville and Sanford Dams failed between 19-20 May 2020, but the state’s National Guard was already activated for the CoViD-19 lock-downs, so response time was fast.   130 of the 1-thousand activated Guard personnel were diverted to flood response.

Officials also said evacuation warnings had been heeded by most residents so there wasn’t much rescuing going on.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, is now figuring out how to prevent more dam failures in Midland and Gladwin counties, due to severe weather.

Back in April 2020, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported that The Great Lakes were at record water levels and that significant erosion and flooding was ongoing.

OCEANS SINK AS THE LANDS FLOOD: CLIMATE CHANGE, 26-31 JANUARY 2020

2019: INDIANA MILITIA EXPANDS FLOOD RESPONSE OPS

NEW JERSEY NATIONAL GUARD SAVING PETS IN QATAR!

RESCUING DOGS, AND DOGS WHO’LL RESCUE YOU!

THE U.S. MILITARY TRAINS TO SAVE YOUR PET FROM DISASTER!

2017: MISSOURI MILITIA RESPONDS TO RECORD FLOODING!

Influenza, Technology

Pandemic Perfidy: Negative Pressure Flying Hospitals, wait didn’t we use those before, Viet Nam?

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U.S. Air Force personnel of the 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron simulate transporting COVID-19 patients on a static C-130 Hercules aircraft during training on the Negative Pressurized Conex- Lite (NPC-L) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. USAF photo by Senior Airman Ashley Perdue, 07AUG2020.

“This is unlike anything we’ve seen in the Air Force….. ….This is a crazy effort.”-Captain Conner Favo, 28th Test & Evaluation Squadron, a famous last words statement as a similar device was used during Viet Nam (see below)

Travis AFB, California. USAF photo by Lan Kim, 05AUG2020.

A multi-agency team involving the U.S. Department of Defense, contractors and universities, has been preparing for massive aeromedical evacuation operations of pandemic victims (prior to the Pandemic, some how), and has developed what it calls Negative Pressure Conex (NPC) containers to isolate those future victims in while being flown to military hospitals.

“The team in the 28th TES is no stranger to bio-containment. We provided this support when developing the Transportation Isolation System for the Ebola crisis, and we’re making every effort to ensure our fellow service members have safe transportation during these times.”-Captain Conner Favo, 28th Test & Evaluation Squadron

Video, NPC testing on the ground:

 

They modified a steel cargo container known as a Conex (most often seen on cargo ships and tractor-trailer rigs) with an air conditioning system to create a negative pressure inside the Conex while being flown on a C-17 Globemaster-3 or C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft.  This is considered important to be able to keep the positive pressurized aircraft and its crew from being contaminated.

NPC testing on Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Chris Drzazgowski, 01MAY2020.

Video, NPC testing onboard C-17 transport:

NPC testing on Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Chris Drzazgowski, 01MAY2020.

The NPC is designed to transport up to 28 victims and medical personnel.

NPC-Lite system loaded inside a C-130 Hercules, on Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. U.S. Army photo by Brian Feeney, 13JUN2020.

Official USAF video report:

 

Testing was done in April/May of 2020, by the personnel of 437th Airlift Wing, at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina.  Other U.S. Air Force units involved include the Agile Combat Support Directorate and the CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) Defense Systems Branch.

U.S. Army Contracting Command slashed a 4-month contracting award process to just 7 days, with delivery of the prototype in only 13 days at an approximate cost of $2-million.  The first operational NPCs are expected to go into use by the end of May 2020.

USAF photo sometime between March & April 1973, Clark Air Base, Philippines.

Realize that a lot of tax dollars have been spent on this not so new technology that is being sold as innovative.  I say not so new, because back in the early 1970s the USAF used a similar ‘NPC’ on a C-141A Starlifter.

USAF photo sometime between March & April 1973, Clark Air Base, Philippines.

It was called Special Aerial Medical Care Unit (SAMCU), and could be environmentally controlled.  However, the USAF had only one SAMCU, based in the Philippines, in case it was needed to evacuate extremely wounded personnel from Viet Nam. When looking at the photos of the SAMCU, notice how similar it looks to the ‘new’ NPC.

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Pandemic OverFlight: A-10C (for CoViD?) Thunderbolt-2

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Salute to Heroes, Operation American Resolve, America Strong, or whatever is the latest Defense Department name for it, apparently massive flights of military aircraft flying over metro areas makes people feel more secure about fighting the “invisible enemy” of a Pandemic.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 14MAY2020.

In Arizona, A-10C and F-16D from Davis Monthan AFB fly over Tucson, 14MAY2020.

USAF photo by Second Lietenant Kaylin P. Hankerson, 15MAY2020.

23rd Wing A-10Cs flew over hospitals in both Florida and Georgia, 15MAY2020.

Video, Idaho’s 124th FW A-10Cs join USAF and RSAF F-15 Strike Eagles in CoViD-19 morale booster flight around the Gem State:

https://www.facebook.com/CBS2Boise/videos/1909010232564549/?t=19

(The 124th Fighter Wing strongly supports the communities in Idaho.  As part of our commitment to be a great neighbor, we often showcase our A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft at various events such as airshows, patriotic observances and some collegiate sporting events.)

USAF photo by Airman First Class Andrew Kobialka, 15MAY2020.

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Video, Indiana Air National Guard’s 122nd FW begins CoViD-19 Air Force Salutes flyovers, 28APR2020:

Indiana Air National Guard 122nd Fighter Wing over Terre Haute, 02MAY2020.

122nd Fighter Wing, Indiana Air National Guard, over Fort Wayne on 13MAY2020.

Maryland Air National Guard 175th Wing A-10Cs over local hospitals, 08MAY2020.

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Munnaf H. Joarder, 13MAY2020.

Michigan Air National Guard A-10 and KC-135 Stratotanker, 13MAY2020.

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Munnaf H. Joarder, 13MAY2020.

Music video of Michigan National Guard A-10 flyover, it was the only A-10 covid-19 music video that didn’t have sappy music or was interspersed with people saying “thank you”:

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