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CoViD-19: Shenanigans Ramping Up, ‘immune’ Santa infects 75 people!

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

Pro-CoViD lockdown leftist-liberal UN World Health Organization medical science ‘experts’ say fictitious Santa Claus is immune!

AUSTRALIA: After almost two weeks of no new cases, mystery CoViD cluster grows

BELGIUM:  Despite UN and U.S. medical ‘experts’ saying Santa Claus is immune, 75 people infected by visiting Santa Claus!

CHINA: Is U.S. President Trump correct?  UN World Health Organization finally to investigate origins of CoViD-19!

Taiwan goes 200 days without any localized infections!

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: CoViD lockdowns result in skyrocketing violent crime

EGYPT: Religious leaders say getting vaccine is your religious duty

GERMANY: Hard lockdown kills Xmas

U.S. soldier dies of CoViD

GHANA:  For the first time, healthcare workers across the African continent allowed to try existing medical treatments on people infected with CoViD!

INDIA: A new study says air pollution kills millions more people than CoViD, while another new study says poor people living in situations that expose them to lots of germs everyday can resist CoViD far better than wealthier people living in sanitized conditions!

IRAN: Despite U.S. sanctions, developed its own CoViD vaccine

ISRAEL-PALESTINE: CoViD finally hits besieged and isolated Gaza, deaths skyrocketing as Israeli officials say no medical supplies will be allowed in!

ITALY: Italian Prime Minster, who ordered CoViD lockdown based on scientific ‘experts’ advice, says fictitious “Father Christmas assured me that he already has an international travel certificate: He can travel everywhere and distribute gifts to all the world’s children.”

RUSSIA: Five politicians get re-infected with CoViD

UKRAINE:  Citizens riot over CoViD lockdowns

UNITED KINGDOM:  Government warned of CoViD riots if lockdowns continue in locations where infection rates are low

UNITED STATES:  STD infections being ignored 

Pro-CoViD lockdown leftist-liberal medical science ‘expert’ Anthony Fauci says fictitious Santa Claus is immune!

After first saying you should scrub surfaces in homes and business, U.S. CDC ‘experts’ now say don’t worry about it, CoViD doesn’t spread on surfaces after all!

  FBI warns of new coronavirus email auto-forwarding scam

More CoViD vaccine scam artists

CoViD lockdowns allow cybercrimes to advance

Alaska; Second healthcare worker has allergic reaction to CoViD vaccine

California;  San Bernardino County (the largest county in the world) sues Gov. Newsom to stop coronavirus lockdown

Gov’na Newsom increases lockdown rules for general public, yet relaxes rules for healthcare workers suspected of being exposed to CoViD!

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Newsom could be recalled due to CoViD response

Long Beach residents accuse police chief of being behind CoViD Super Spreader event!

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California bans vacation rentals under CoViD lockdowns, allows hotel/resort owners to keep deposits!

Local basketball games now illegal 

Florida; Governor defends police raid on CoViD data whistleblower

Idaho;  Idaho Democratic lawmakers ask for postponement of legislative session due to pandemic.

State employment officials now demanding people made jobless by CoViD pay-back the CoViD unemployment assistance!

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September 2020:  COVID-19 = ECONOMIC & SOCIAL DEATHS OF DESPAIR!

October 2020: COVID-19 SHENANIGANS

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

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!

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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!!!

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

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! 

 

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

 

 

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.

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.
                                                                                                                                      Wisconsin reports 40 years of gender progress in employment erased by pandemic restrictions:“What we’re really facing is a potential wipe out of an entire generation of mothers’ careers…”-Joan Williams, University of California-Hastings Law, Center for WorkLife Law

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

CoViD-19 Shenanigans

03 October 2020 / 03:48 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 12 Mehr 1399/15 Safar 1442/17 Bing-Xu 4718

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

United Nations World Health Organization now admits that harsh pandemic lockdowns cause more harm than the pandemic and “must be avoided at all costs.” 

Countries without CoViD infections are still being killed-off by CoViD restrictions in pandemic countries:

CHINA:  Hong Kong’s massive USD$68.4-million mass testing during its Third Wave now considered a waste of time and money!

GERMANY: Neanderthal gene increases risk of severe coronavirus illness

FINLAND:

 INDIA: Experimental vaccine maker is somehow already producing millions of doses

Scientific contact tracing study discovers that children are the CoViD-19 super-spreaders!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            CoViD-19 restrictions force migrant workers to flee                                                                                                                                                                                                Coronavirus Shatters India’s Economy

City of Mumbai discovers possible second CoViD-19 antibody

JAPAN: Fourth suicide by a Japanese star during COVID-19 highlights country’s crisis

Suicides among young women increasing sharply, government response to coronavirus blamed

Coronavirus government subsidy fraud on the rise

Retail store sales continue to crash and burn due to CoViD restrictions

National Center for Global Health and Medicine confirms that pre-existing medical problems are the main reason people are dying after getting infected with CoViD-19

PAKISTAN: Begins Phase-3 Trial of Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine

Is Covid-19 ‘herd immunity’ really working in Pakistan?                                                                                                                                                                                         Schizophrenic government response as on one hand all education facilities are re-opened, yet on the other hand restaurants are being forced to shutdown                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       RUSSIA: ‘Mushrooms Have Kidnapped You’; Pandemic Obsession With Forest Fungi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Recovery of tourism industry will take at least two years once the pandemic is finished                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       SWEDEN:

UNITED KINGDOM:  Study says loss of smell is best indicator that you are infected                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         UNTIED STATES: 50 Most Popular U.S. Restaurants That Won’t Reopen After the Pandemic
                                                                                                                                                           Idaho;     After 18 years the Golden Corral restaurant in Pocatello gave up the ghost, blaming CoVid-19,  adding another nail in the slow-death-economic-coffin for Pocatello.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, October 2020.

CoViD-19 fearmongering restrictions kill-off more restaurants in Eastern Idaho (some of those fearmongering restrictions are the fault of the restaurant owners themselves, one Asian style buffet in Pocatello is now open only four days per week and requires you to wear a mask, except when you are actually shoveling food into your mouth, and if you don’t have a mask they force you to buy one of theirs)

                                                                                                                                                          Pub owner in Western Idaho tries to be responsible in the age of CoViD, resulting in the permanent shutdown of the popular Irish gathering spot after 18 years “of fun”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Coronavirus Cases Rise In What Is Called Idaho’s Third Spike (Wave)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    State officials already developing CoViD vaccine distribution operation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Even god can’t stop the mormon owned BYU-Idaho from possible shutdown due to an invisible virus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Arrests made at church’s ‘psalm sing’ in Moscow, Idaho, over coronavirus violations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Man shutdown Idaho high school football game by refusing to wear a mask, yet in the photo you can see that even the responding cops, as well as other people, refused to wear masks!                                                                                                                                                                                                          Leftist group warns of new anti-pandemic lockdown organization based in Idaho                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Washington DC; President Trump gets experimental antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      President Trump is correct about suicides versus CoViD-19: “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                                                                                                                                                                                                            VENEZUELA: Thanks Russia for 2-thousand experimental CoViD-19 vaccines
CoViD-19, April 2020:  ‘EXPERTS’ ADMITTING TO WHAT I ALREADY WARNED ABOUT, MASKS CAN’T PROTECT YOU!                                                                                                                                                                          March 2020: CoViD-19 fearmongering shuts down WINCO’s 24 hours grocery operations in Pocatello, Idaho

Once a Red Coat, now a Blue Angel

The retired ‘Fat Albert’ C-130T, brought out for public Pandemic moral display. (Texas Air National Guard photo by Julie Briden-Garcia, 06MAY2020.

On 06MAY2020, the retired C-130T Fat Albert was brought out to help fight CoViD-19 at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas.  After 30-thousand hours of flying in support of the Blue Angels demo team, C-130T Fat Albert was retired to static display duty in 2019.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 28JUL2020.

The new C-130J Fat Albert on second functional check-flight over Cambridge, England, 28JUL2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 28JUL2020.

The ‘new’ Blue Angels Fat Albert is actually an old British empire Royal Air Force C-130J, which underwent rebuild by Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group in United Kingdom.  A Forbes report says it cost U.S. taxpayers $29.7-million.  (which isn’t too bad, considering that in 2014 a new C-130J would cost between $67-million and $167-million depending on options)

Video by Marshall Aerospace, dressing the bare-metal C-130J in its new Blue Angels uniform:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 06AUG2020.

On 06AUG2020, C-130J Fat Albert arrived on Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas.

Video, by Petty Officer Second Class Cody Hendrix, C-130J Fat Albert flying over algae bloom off the Atlantic coast of Florida, 17AUG2020:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Cody Hendrix, 17AUG2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Cody Hendrix, 17AUG2020.

Nobody is on the beach, what is this, CoViD-19 lockdown?

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 1989.

This is a photo I took of a C-130T Fat Albert at the Vandenberg AFB air show in California, Spring 1989.  Notice that it is not painted blue and white.

Bare Metal: C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

 

C-130T, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, 04MAR2014.  Photo by Staff Sergeant Oscar L Olive the Fourth.

C-130T promotional video by Staff Sergeant Oscar L Olive the Fourth:

CHIKrisk 2021: U.S. Army continues to warn of new pandemic

29 July 2020 / 02:08 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Mordad 1399/08 Dhu l-Hijja 1441/09 Gui-Wei 4718

“A person who has acquired the chikungunya virus is infectious in the first week of illness, which means that the infected person can transmit the virus to another person through a mosquito bite…”-DTRA warning from 27APR2020

Since the end of April 2020, the U.S. Army’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has been warning of a new pandemic for 2021, based on a new computer program that analyzes historical data of past pandemics, as well as using ‘real time’ data like climate anomalies and mosquito activity.  The real time data is coming from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the U.S. Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch.

In May I wrote how Thailand reported more than 10-thousand  Chikungunya infections, over a four months period.  It was in May that DTRA began warning military units of an expected Chikungunya outbreak in 2021.  Just like Coronavirus, there is no vaccine and no specific treatment.

On July 15, DTRA issued the following video warning:

According to DTRA, Netflix made a documentary about the coming CHIKrisk pandemic, as part of Netflix’s Connected series, to be aired sometime in Autumn 2020.

U.S. Navy warns the people of Dominican Republic of CHIKrisk threat, October 2019.

While the U.S. Army has been warning of a chikungunya pandemic since May of this year, the U.S. Navy has been making warnings since 2014.  Here’s a much more detailed U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery explainer and warning video from September 2014:

U.S. Navy mosquito trap in use in Honduras in March 2018.

SOUTHEAST IDAHO PANDEMIC ROAD-TRIP

“INSIDIOUS” INFECTION ONBOARD USS KIDD, CREW REPLACED?

Going Viral: NEGATIVE PRESSURE FLYING HOSPITALS?

Going Viral: “A STRANGE, ABSURD SITUATION.”

OPERATION JUPITER: MILITARY’S SECRET FLU IMITATING VIRUS EXPOSED, VACCINATIONS FOR MILITARY ONLY!

From 2016: NOW DEADLIER THAN ZIKA, CHIKV (chikungunya) KILLS 15 PEOPLE IN 5 DAYS! CHIKV infections were first noticed in 1955.  It was not considered dangerous as it was rare if an infected person died.  In 2005 CHIKV had mutated and began rapidly spreading around the world, and it became stronger.

Southeast Idaho Pandemic Road-Trip

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?

Pandemic Overflight: The Sandman Enters

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

Drunken Cobra Recovery: Pre-Pandemic N95 Mask wearing?

AH-1W (Alpha Hotel-One Wiskey) Super-Cobra.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Carley Vedro, 17OCT2019.

Checking for booby-traps planted near an abandoned AH-1W Super Cobra.

USMC photo by Corporal Carley Vedro, 17OCT2019.

Aircraft recovery training at Twentynine Palms, California, 17OCT2019.

USMC photo by Corporal Carley Vedro, 17OCT2019.

Interesting, this recovery training took place in October 2019, yet all the Marines in this pic are wearing N95 masks! The information that came with these pics did not explain why they are wearing N95 masks.  N95 masks are not just for medical use, they are also used in various industries for protection against microscopic particles.

USMC photo by Corporal Koby I. Saunders, 09MAY2018.

Recovery ops, Twenty Nine Palms, May 2018.

USMC photo by Corporal Koby I. Saunders, 09MAY2018.

USMC photo by Corporal Koby I. Saunders, 09MAY2018.

USMC photo by Corporal Koby I. Saunders, 09MAY2018.

USMC photo by Corporal Koby I. Saunders, 09MAY2018.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Kowshon Ye, 07NOV2017.

Aircraft salvage and recovery/refueling training at Twentynine Palms, 07NOV2017.

Video, Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 373 explains Viper recovery training during Integrated Training eXercise 3-17:

The Super Cobra in this video was the subject of a Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel mission (TRAP mission) in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in June 2011.  The AH-1W had one of its two turbines quit working and a new engine was installed.  The video is of the start-up and take-off after the new turbine was installed:

Most U.S. Marine AH-1W Super Cobras were ‘retired’ by the end of 2019, being resurrected as upgraded AH-1Z Vipers.

RECOVERING UH-1 SKELETONS

MIL 17 CRASH & BURN

CH-47 CHINOOK COLLECTS MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES

“Insidious” infection onboard USS Kidd, crew replaced?

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.