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Our government has ordered diesel powered submarines that wont be delivered for 10 or so years................. .

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More and more we see the beat-up statistics...? “...Counting of the dead in Austria The government revealed this secret at a press conference on Thursday. Do you also count as a corona dead if you are infected with the virus but died of something else? Yes, say Rudi Anschober and Bernhard Benka, a member of the Corona Task Force in the Ministry of Health. "There is a clear rule at the moment: Died with the coronavirus or the coronavirus," Benka explains. All these cases are included in the statistics...” https://www.heute.at/s/osterreich-bei-corona-todesstatistik-sehr-liberal-48665863 .

Why cant we fly till Xmas ?....?

An interesting article I translated from a German news service. As there do not appear to be any online English versions I reprint it in full... ====================================== In Heinsberg, the virologist Hendrik Streeck searches for the coronavirus on remote controls and doorknobs. What he finds could decide the end of the shutdown. 6/4/20 Interview: Jakob Simmank and Florian Schumann Hendrik Streeck sits in a school in Gangelt in the district of Heinsberg, one of the centers of the German coronavirus outbreak. Behind it a panel with a map of the world and the planets of our solar system. He wears a blue coat, the breathing mask dangles next to his neck. Together with his team, the virologist from the University of Bonn is currently studying people here for the largest German study on the spread of coronavirus to date. The school, which is not used because of Corona, is the headquarters. During the video conference, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet writes him a text message and the caretaker comes in and asks if he wants to eat something. TIME ONLINE: Professor Streeck, what is your mood? Hendrick Streeck: Thank you, good. The medical students who support us in the study here are incredibly motivated. And the Gangelter are great. The teachers of the school bake cakes for us and within a few days everything was equipped with Wi-Fi and a computer station was set up below. TIME ONLINE: You are actually an expert on the HIV virus. Thanks to the new coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, you are now a sought-after expert as a virologist. How is this for you personally? HENDRIK STREECK has been Professor of Virology at the University of Bonn since 2019, succeeding Christian Drosten. He is also director of the Institute for HIV Research. Streeck: Sars-CoV-2 determines every day. I can't remember ever having dealt with anything else. And that's right. Covid-19 is getting closer and closer to all of us. Almost every one of us now knows someone who is infected. TIME ONLINE: Many people are staring at the number of cases every day and wondering: Is the curve finally flattening? What do you think of it? Streeck: The fact that the figures are going up and that the capacity limit of the clinics has not yet been exceeded is a good thing. It is a sign that our health system can do a lot. Fortunately, we have not yet got into a situation where we have had to decide which people can still be treated. For me, the number of free intensive care beds is the most important thing anyway. It shows whether we still have treatment capacity for the severe Covid-19 cases. TIME ONLINE: And what about the death toll, which is still quite low in Germany so far? Streeck: We will only be able to answer in retrospect whether and how much the monthly death rate increases due to Covid-19. I took a closer look at the cases of 31 of the 40 deceased from the district of Heinsberg – and was not very surprised that these people died. One of the deceased was more than 100 years old, and a normal cold could have led to death. But as I said, the study is still ongoing. TIME ONLINE: Should we look more closely at what really killed people? Streeck: I think so. It is often very important to know whether people have died from viral pneumonia, or covid-19, or something else. In one of the Heinsberg patients, Sars-CoV-2 was detected in the throat. But he had no pneumonia, but died of cardiac arrest. TIME ONLINE: There is a public debate about whether politics listens too much to individual experts. How do you classify yourself? Streeck: At the moment, too much is based on model calculations. But these models are full of assumptions that no one has tested. And often there has to be only one assumption wrong or one thing is not taken into account and the whole model collapses. TIME ONLINE: Do you have an example of this? Streeck: In Imperial College's – really good – model studies on the progress of the epidemic, for example, the authors assume that 50 percent of households where there is a case do not adhere to voluntary quarantine. Where does such an assumption come from? I think we should create more facts. TIME ONLINE: That's exactly what you want to do in Gangelt. You have just started the most comprehensive study on Covid-19 in Germany to date. What is your goal? Streeck: For the first time, we are testing whether they are or were infected with the coronavirus in a sample of the population representative of Germany. This is done by smear and antibody test in the blood. In this way, we can also estimate the number of infections. In total, we examine 1,000 people from 500 households. They all come to our school, twelve households per hour. Here we ask them, for example, whether they were at the carnival meeting from which the outbreak in this region is said to have started; whether they have pre-existing conditions or take certain medications that are suspected of aggravating the infection. Then we take blood and smears from the throat. For Tuesday we have invited all participants of the carnival meeting. Even if you don't believe it, they haven't all been tested yet. In addition, my doctoral student is currently reconstructing the session. He asks the participants where exactly they sat at the cap session and who they talked to. TIME ONLINE: Can this be used to reconstruct the chain of infection? Streeck: Hopefully. We started to record who might have infected whom. Time and again it was also suspected that the rinsing water did not properly disinfect the beer glasses and that people became so infected. But that is probably not true. Most of the people at the meeting drank bottled beer. And other things don't fit either. TIME ONLINE: Which one? Streeck: We are surprised that many people got sick immediately after the carnival, often a day later. This does not fit with the incubation period of several days that we assume for Covid-19. And there are other traces: at the end of January, an entire school is said to have been more or less paralyzed. Almost all children and parents were sick. We are now looking into whether these people have antibodies. If so, we will investigate. "Until now, we have never been able to grow the viruses from the doorknobs" TIME ONLINE: Do you examine people again later? Streeck: We are discussing this. We see that the number of infections in Gangelt is no longer increasing. Here you are already over the mountain. This is the best time to examine a sample. But if the measures were to be relaxed in Gangelt first, we would like to accompany this as a project. TIME ONLINE: Right after the outbreak in Heinsberg began in February, you have already examined the households of infected people. Do you do that again now? Streeck: Yes, from Tuesday the hygienists will go into the households of the people we have recently tested positive. There they collect air and remove remote controls and doorknobs. We have already taken samples in 70 households, but we want a larger sample, although I can imagine what comes out of the investigations. TIME ONLINE: What? Streeck: We found viruses on objects or doorhandles. Also once in toilet water, if someone had diarrhea. In no case, however, have we succeeded in instilling intact viruses from them. This at least suggests that most people do not get infected via surfaces. However, we have now refined the methodology. I am sure that this will give us more refinement. TIME ONLINE: Let's talk about the symptoms you've seen in those infected. They were one of the first to describe an almost complete loss of smell and taste. Are there any other new findings? Streeck: Our data so far show that about one third of patients have diarrhea, even for several days. That is more than previously thought. Moreover , as we have not yet noticed, but we have heard it many times – deafness and dizziness may occur. All these things were not taken into account at first, because they do not fit a respiratory disease. TIME ONLINE: However, they fit with case reports in which scientists describe that Sars CoV-2 infection can cause symptoms related to the nervous system, including headaches. In some cases, researchers even found severe brain damage in deceased patients (Radiology: Poyiadji et al., 2020). Is it known that Sars viruses are capable of such a thing? Streeck: It is not in the textbooks anyway. Sars-CoV-2 is a fairly surprising virus. One that can apparently cause symptoms in several organ systems, and sometimes has a two-phase course, i.e. first affects the throat and then the lungs: all this is not known from other pathogens. TIME ONLINE: Another big unknown is why some people are severely ill and others are barely noticeable. Streeck: This depends on various factors. Pre-diseases play a role and the reaction of the immune system. However, much of this is not yet understood. We were recently surprised by a study whose authors found virus in their blood (Jama: Young et al., 2020). We examined this in all of our first 70 patients and never found viruses in the blood. We have also communicated this to the Paul Ehrlich Institute, which has a relevance for blood donation. And now we are wondering whether the virus may only pass into the blood in the severe gradients, but not in the light ones. We want to investigate these issues. TIME ONLINE: When it comes to severe histories, could it be that a part of the population is protected because these people have cross immunity from another coronavirus infection? Streeck: It is a very exciting question whether there can be an already existing immunity, i.e. a kind of cross-immunity. After all, besides Sars-CoV-2, there are four other coronaviruses that have been going around the world for years, but usually have very mild histories. Only rarely are there heavy histories. This is what we noticed this winter, for example, in some of the staff of our institute. Now we check if their immune system can partially detect Sars-2. "I would find it bad to lock people away from risk groups" TIME ONLINE: Questions of the immune response are fascinating, but they are unlikely to help policymakers. A decision will soon be taken on how to proceed with the existing, rather strict measures after 19 April. We hope for quick results from you and your study. Streeck: Of course, because with our data you will hopefully get a better impression of which measures work and which do not. But we have to wait and see when there are results. The biggest mistake we can make would be to draw conclusions and give advice. Just to have to revise them afterwards. Hopefully, around or after Easter, we can make concrete recommendations. I am in close contact with the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia and Prime Minister Armin Laschet. The state of NRW is thankfully funding our study. TIME ONLINE: An important question will be how the virus is transmitted in the first place. Shops and shops are closed, people should stay at home. And you are sitting with Markus Lanz recently and say that so far no infections have been detected at the hairdresser, while driving a bus or while shopping. Are the measures too harsh? Streeck: If there are still individual transfers, for example in the supermarket or at the hairdresser,, that is not good, but also not a big problem. It has always been said that our aim is not to completely contain the virus, but to remain below the capacity limit of hospitals. We would not be able to contain the virus if we did not want to sit at home for two or three years. It is also really time for us to invoke data. TIME ONLINE: What do you mean? Streeck: Our preliminary data at least give indications that the virus is not transmitted via surfaces, but in close contact. And the case at Munich, the first in Germany, points in a similar direction. During her visit, the employee of the car supplier from China only infected colleagues with whom she worked quite closely. There was no transmission in the restaurant, the taxi driver has not become infected and no one on public transport. This is despite the fact that this woman seems to have been highly infectious. TIME ONLINE: Do you see that in Gangelt? That the infection chains can be tracked and that the newly infected know those who infected them? Streeck: In Gangelt almost everyone knows each other anyway. But yes, we can usually understand what it was like. TIME ONLINE: In addition, the current restrictions have certain side effects. They have consequences for the economy, unemployment is also increasing and possibly domestic violence and suicides. Do we take all this seriously enough? Streeck: As a virologist, I cannot say what the economic and psychological consequences will be. TIME ONLINE: But for other reasons, you have spoken out against a strict curfew. Why? Streeck: One reason is that we are doing everything that is bad for our immune system. We hang around at home and don't go out in the sun. Sitting on a blanket in the park is already forbidden to sit on a blanket in the park. But again, we are not looking at the facts. Sars-CoV-2 is a droplet infection and not a droplet infection that is transmitted through the air. If it were measles and we all had no immune protection, I would also advise avoiding public transport. I would also behave differently with smallpox. TIME ONLINE: When we talk about how to proceed, dealing with the risk groups is a central issue. What might it look like? Streeck: It is mainly about the elderly and pre-sick people. Ideally, hospital and nursing staff could be tested every week. And for the relatives and visitors, there would be a machine in front of the entrance that allows a quick test. If the test is negative, then they are allowed to come in. If this is not possible with the quick test, you have to consider other possibilities. But the worst thing I would find would be if we were to simply lock certain people away. TIME ONLINE: Whether in the Berlin Club Trompete or at the apricot ski in Ischgl: major events have often been the starting point for outbursts. Should they remain banned for the time being? Streeck: We want to create facts and not speculate. ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder imPUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl. .

Can hysteria kill people ? Via the Medical Journal of Australia... “...On Monday 21 February 2005, Australian media broadcast news of a mysterious “gas leak” which was blamed for causing breathing problems, dizziness, nausea, headache and vomiting in 57 people in the vicinity of a terminal at Melbourne’s domestic airport. An investigation by Victorian emergency services personnel identified no leak, and the results of air quality tests were unremarkable. The incident disrupted a third of the domestic passenger flights over 2 days and cost a commercial airline company an estimated three million dollars, not to mention the financial burden borne by responding emergency services and government agencies. In response, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks asked Emergency Services Commissioner Bruce Esplin to “investigate and analyse any matters pertinent to a comprehensive understanding of the incident”.1 The Esplin report, issued on 24 March 2005, concluded that the illness cluster was a mystery.1 However, in my opinion, the most obvious diagnosis in the circumstances — mass psychogenic illness — did not receive due consideration...” https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2005/183/11/mystery-illness-melbourne-airport-toxic-poisoning-or-mass-hysteria .....? Add a few other health conditions to the mixture and I wonder what would we get...? .

Bit of a pukker flight over all them trees getting there though...? .

Chinese curse - “May you live in interesting times”.....? .

Them Pigs used to look good on afterburner...? .

I woulda thought having an extra licensed driver in the house were essential....? .

Yeah!..... yer not thinking of the added gyro effect of fast spinning wheels. After wheels spin up to max revolutions, touch one brake slightly to add a sudden sideways movement to the aircraft which makes the resulting gyro effect fling the aircraft into the air thus allowing time for the propellor effect to aid with adding forward motion, and off yer fly.................... ? .

Years ago when I got some bushwheels outa the US they’d turn up with a stack of peanuts packed in the tyre centre hole..?. New owners stopped the practice..? .

I did not say you can run an aircraft on methane. .....well, yer can, though the problems are as pointed out..? Take note the Germans in WW2 ran aircraft on coal....... processed coal. My thread starter comment again: “...Methane hydrate is basically an unlimited source of material that can be converted into aircraft fuel...” .

The other part of the reason he died were talking to the world about a dangerous ‘new’ virus. Probably from “proximity” to the barrel of a gun..? Meanwhile, another Chinese doctor whistle blower ‘disappears’.... .

“...In an article on the website of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Jefferson and Carl Heneghan, director of the centre and editor of BMJ EBM, write, “There can be little doubt that covid-19 may be far more widely distributed than some may believe. Lockdown is going to bankrupt all of us and our descendants and is unlikely at this point to slow or halt viral circulation as the genie is out of the bottle. “What the current situation boils down to is this: is economic meltdown a price worth paying to halt or delay what is already amongst us?”.....” https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1375 .

I’ve flown the boxed bungee gear Maule and wondered if the spring gear would be an ‘improvement’ With the spring gear I would be worried about the tendency of the gear to tuck under in a side ways slide situation - ie, the beginnings of a ground loop ? .

Good point...? .

Now that we know cats and dogs can spread the virus it will just keep going on and on and on..... “...The only thing that stops it is herd immunity...” “...Professor Knut Wittkowski, for twenty years head of The Rockefeller University's Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, says that social distancing and lockdown is the absolutely worst way to deal with an airborne respiratory virus. Further, he offers data to show that China and South Korea had already reached their peak number of cases when they instituted their containment measures. In other words, nature had already achieved, or nearly achieved, herd immunity.. ..Professor Wittkowski urges that the schools be open now, so that the virus may spread harmlessly among the young, and thus shorten the amount of time the elderly and immune compromised must be sequestered. Our current course, he warns, will only prolong the crisis and likely guarantee a second wave of infections...” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg

“...Specialists who keep industry and business going could be considered essential as well in circumstances where performing their service was time critical...” Heh, if yer caint find a reason in that list yer deserve to be turned back...? .

Government mandated idiocy on steroids. .

Big cats got it now... :...A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the US or a tiger anywhere, a zoo spokesman said...” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-06/tiger-at-new-yorks-bronx-zoo-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/12124410 ...well, so much for the poorly informed lock-down now...? Next the family dog will have it. Then what we gunna do? Shoot all the dogs and cats...? .

“...New evidence has emerged from China indicating that the large majority of coronavirus infections do not result in symptoms. Chinese authorities began publishing daily figures on 1 April on the number of new coronavirus cases that are asymptomatic, with the first day’s figures suggesting that around four in five coronavirus infections caused no illness. Many experts believe that unnoticed, asymptomatic cases of coronavirus infection could be an important source of contagion. A total of 130 of 166 new infections (78%) identified in the 24 hours to the afternoon of Wednesday 1 April were asymptomatic, said China’s National Health Commission. And most of the 36 cases in which patients showed symptoms involved arrivals from overseas, down from 48 the previous day, the commission said. China is rigorously testing arrivals from overseas for fear of importing a fresh outbreak of covid-19. Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist and honorary research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, said the findings were “very, very important.” He told The BMJ, “The sample is small, and more data will become available. Also, it’s not clear exactly how these cases were identified. But let’s just say they are generalisable. And even if they are 10% out, then this suggests the virus is everywhere. If—and I stress, if—the results are representative, then we have to ask, ‘What the hell are we locking down for?’” Jefferson said that it was quite likely that the virus had been circulating for longer than generally believed and that large swathes of the population had already been exposed...” https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1375

Yeah, I gots many bad habits...? .

Yep. And practice all techniques of operation that the aircraft offers - even bouncing. What yer going to do when you bounce it landing on that one-way no go-round strip and all you’ve been taught and since practiced is to power up and go round after all bounces...? There’s even some tough ultralights let you practice ground looping - anyway, thats what I were told he were doing..? .

Jo Nova has a bit more about it... “...But to show how fickle these things can be, even though it made it to phase III clinical trials against Dengue in Thailand, and it reduced the viral count in vivo, it still didn’t produce a clinical benefit.....” Continues: Another possible cure from coronavirus, found in sheep dip: Ivermectin « JoNova .