Flying Binghi

Onetrack, re the China virus apart from the B12/iron aspect, I don’t know if the vegan diet has any real relevance at this time. Of the three people referenced in news articles that were quoted in this thread only one is a maybe - the sick athlete. The young lass who died I don’t know as yet because I can not research facebook. The third chap had asthma. Hardly enuf info to make a decision on. I may have to join facebook to do further research..? I thought I’d put the comments re B12/iron up there anyway because if yer past 60 years old and maybe not eating a B12 and iron rich diet it is probably prudent to have a steak and eggs every day until we have a vaccine. If you get the virus its probably best to at least have the blood working 100% at getting ‘oxygenated’ because yer lungs will not be providing much. In passing, I been hearing there’s research out there suggesting high cholesterol is an anti viral..? .

Looks like India is asking questions about the China virus. Via an Indian news service: .

I dunno. When I first flew ultralights yer just hopped in and flew - just not over public roads or above 300’ or so. I didn’t have an altimeter so took a guess. Nowa days yer can cheaply fly an own-built basic aircraft around ninety plus percent of Oz . Caint help but think fer all the sins of what is now called CASA that many of them CASA people have been looking out for their fellow Australians and looking at ways to make personal aviation available to all - Not just the wealthy, like fer example, Dick Smith..? .

First up - I am NOT a carnivore. I am NOT a herbivore. I is an Omnivore..? “Source for this claim...” ??? 3 seconds of google gives me this: Via: What Every Vegan Should Know About Vitamin B12 “...B12 is an exceptional vitamin. It is required in smaller amounts than any other known vitamin. Ten micrograms of B12 spread over a day appears to supply as much as the body can use. In the absence of any apparent dietary supply, deficiency symptoms usually take five years or more to develop in adults, though some people experience problems within a year. A very small number of individuals with no obvious reliable source appear to avoid clinical deficiency symptoms for twenty years or more. B12 is the only vitamin that is not recognised as being reliably supplied from a varied wholefood, plant-based diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables, together with exposure to sun. Many herbivorous mammals, including cattle and sheep, absorb B12 produced by bacteria in their own digestive system. B12 is found to some extent in soil and plants. These observations have led some vegans to suggest that B12 was an issue requiring no special attention, or even an elaborate hoax. Others have proposed specific foods, including spirulina, nori, tempeh, and barley grass, as suitable non-animal sources of B12. Such claims have not stood the test of time. In over 60 years of vegan experimentation only B12 fortified foods and B12 supplements have proven themselves as reliable sources of B12, capable of supporting optimal health. It is very important that all vegans ensure they have an adequate intake of B12, from fortified foods or supplements. This will benefit our health and help to attract others to veganism through our example...” Seems the vegan/Vegy crew understand the basics. ...OK, nonsense out of the way. Back to the China virus... One thing I took on board at the start of the ‘pandemic’ is our current medical researchers/practitioners in the virus related fields are overloaded at this time. I dont expect them to have all the answers for some time to come. I’ve never been one to let the government hold me hand ...So, what I can do to inform me-self of what I can do to help me-self is a priority. If yer ever played them shooter video games yer’d be familiar with the idea of health points. Do a certain thing, or eat a certain thing, or wear a certain thing and your survivability rate goes up by percentage points. If by doing a bit of back ground research on the apparent outliers that have suffered from the virus and identifying possibilities of adding health points to my armour then thats what I do...? If one has ever read my comments reference aircraft crash’s then yer’d see how I like to look at things fairly in depth and work from there. Just because I bring up any particular point don’t mean I think thats the correct ‘answer’ to any investigation of the subject..? Nuff fer now.. the a-noon beckons..? .

Hmmm... “Realestate bubble”...... I suppose if yer an ‘investor’ from China it will be a buyers market..? As the old timers say, the world belongs to those that keep their head in a crisis...? Ben Shapiro has been interviewing and talking to some of the same people Trump talks to re the China virus. Here’s his latest grab bag of what things look like at the moment... “The Coming Storm | Ep. 981” https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Coming+Storm+%7C+Ep.+981 .

The China Virus... maybe it should properly be called the Chinese communist party virus..? The more we find out will change opinions... http://joannenova.com.au/2020/03/chinese-company-flew-80-tons-of-medical-masks-suits-to-china-in-feb/ .

?......? Apparently my few posts have been blown up into something............. So far basically I’ve looked at the possibility of low blood oxygen in some virus victims and pointed out media hysteria mongering... plus attending to some inane comments..? .

And yet not all media that i read re the chaps demise noted his pre-existing health conditions - fear mungering..? Just because there is a shortage of medical staff do not mean you put a doctor with lung ailments to serve China virus patients! The chap were guaranteed to get the virus and he were also guaranteed to need intense medical care - taking up valuable bed space. If those in charge knew of his lung conditions then stupidity it were. Imagine if it happened in Italy where they were letting people over 65(?) die because they had insufficient medical facilities. That chap would be treated because he is under 65. I’m wondering what this “state of denial” is i’m Under..?..? .

He were relatively young so I did a brief search to glean a bit of back ground... “...An assistant nursing manager at a New York City hospital, who told his family he believed he had contracted the coronavirus after being exposed at work, died Tuesday evening, his sister told NBC News. The death of Kious Jordan Kelly, 48, was confirmed by Mount Sinai Hospital. It comes amid an escalating crisis in New York in which hospitals are faced with surging numbers of coronavirus patients and shortages of crucial medical equipment and protective gear for staffers. Kelly suffered from severe asthma... ..He was born with a hole in his lung...” http://ahealthynews.com/2020/03/26/theres-only-going-to-be-more-nyc-nurse-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus-nbcnews-com/ Very sad. Though you got to question just why he were allowed to be at that particular care area ? .

There were mention that when they were checking/cleaning one of the infected occupant cruise ship cabins they found viable China virus at 17 days after pax departed. Found a link: Coronavirus can survive on a surface for 17 days, says the CDC .

How do we know she “had no health issues” ? All I can see from the limited info available is she had no known health issues. Do we have an autopsy report yet? I’d be checking to see were she vegan? Might be mentioned on her facebook page - I’m not a member so can not check. Vegan/vegetarians are notorious for being unhealthy low in B12 and iron - thats the stuff that gets oxygen to the blood. .

I recalls when I were a young-un talking to me mum about how her pantry were small and yet both me granny’s pantry’s were very large and well stocked. Not just with a lot of boring food stuffs (ie, not cakes and chocolate) but with a lot of pickled bottles of stuff and numerous empty jars etc. Mum pointed out the many young visitor mouths to feed, though also mentioned both granny’s had been through (when young) the trying times of WW1, the Spanish flu, the Great Depression, and the worry and shortages of WW2. ...I guess it’d be the same story with many here. When the current Woohan flu came to me attention I remembered me granny’s experience and stocked up on what I would find hard to survive with-out. I went to the shop and got a years supply of Moccona coffee and powdered milk. Driving around the paddock yesterday I took note of me larder. Chooks, Goates, Rabbits/hares, wild Pigs, Deere, Cattle... .

Recalls, back about 1985(?) at MKT there were an aircraft burned from a 20 litre drum fueling mishap. I seen the remains, though weren’t there at the time of fire so don’t know the specifics. .

Heh, I tell pax the black knob is the volume control - push forward for more noise...? Well, I thought the thread title described what the subject matter is.....?....although, around here threads do wander a bit..? Re Spanish Flu: Via YouTube. “The History Guy” channel is on my weekly listen list. Apart from much aviation related history he has also touched on subjects such as “History of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic” and a video on “The Australian Slouch Hat”..? .

An apparent outlier... “A super-fit cycling fanatic is fighting for his life in hospital as his wife begs younger people to ‘understand you are not invincible’ from the deadly Coronavirus... ...Being fit and healthy and young is not a get-out clause...” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8146985/Super-fit-cycling-fanatic-40-battles-COVID-19-wife-tells-young-people-not-invincible.html .

Hmmm... I hadn’t given it any thought before..? ...just using the term “China virus” because people I deal with day-to-day outside of forum land use the term. I do now see some benefit to the term..? Kgwilson, imagine a new Corona virus type were first noticed in Australia and the world called it the Australian virus - would you then say those using the term Australian virus were racist ? ...Spanish virus perhaps... Kgwilson, if you can offer up a coherent argument re the Australian virus scenario and racism then I will reconsider using a term I hear on a daily basis..? Me and a few million Uyghurs await an answer... Meanwhile, back to considering why oxygen in the blood might be important to those suffering from the China virus... .

An interesting link there - “Super-fit cycling fanatic...” Read the article and find that his wife is a ‘nutritionist’... ? Search “Anna Schuchman” and she comes up. Cross check to photos in the “Super-fit” article confirms. It would appear to me that she advocates a plant heavy diet - brief search does not see any direct no-meat claims though she lists many fruit piccys... https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/food/healthy-habits-you-can-stick-to-in-2020-from-ace-lifestyle-1.495199 She pictures a bowl of fruit as healthy! ? ...looks more like a sugar bomb to me..? Is any of the above relevant to the China flu..? ..may-be not, though yet another interesting factoid adding to our knowledge. Of note: what do vegetarians and vegans lack - “Vitamin B12 and iron are also essential for the production of haemoglobin which carries oxygen in the blood...” .

Haven’t used 44’s in years though I’ve still got the drum pump with its attached water trap/dirt filter. Water you can drain out though grit mainly just sits all over the bottom of the tank until stirred up by flight. Far as I’m concerned, after using drummed ‘farmer fuel supplies’ and seeing the dirt coming through the pre-flight fuel drain checks, it were mandatory to bring me own filtered pump system along - strapped it to the skids..? .

First I’ve heard of private flying being affected. Re the spread of the China flu - What’s the difference between me driving my car or me aeroplane ? .

That looks like corrosion? Perhaps you were lucky being forced to do a rebuild..? .

A look at who actually dies from the Chinese flu... “...Out of the 2,003 deaths, seventeen were people under fifty, and only 5 people under thirty died, while almost two hundred deaths were of people over 90. I’d read that the people dying in Italy were old, but I didn’t realize quite how old they actually are … One thing I learned on this voyage was that the Italians distinguished between dying FROM the virus on the one hand, and dying WITH the virus on the other. Once I looked at the state of health of the Italian victims, however, I could see why they had to do that. Figure 3 shows the generous apportionment of serious diseases and conditions among the unfortunates...” “...it got into the medical system. Doesn’t matter how. But once there, it was spread invisibly to other patients, in particular the oldest and weakest of the patients. It went from patient to patient, from patient to visitor and back again, and it was also spread by everyone in the hospital from administrators to doctors and nurses to janitors. In many, perhaps most cases, they didn’t even know they were sick, but they were indeed infectious. And that’s why the pattern of the Italian deaths is so curious, and their number is so much larger than the rest of the world. It’s not a cross-section of the general population. It’s a cross-section of people who were already quite sick, sick enough that they were already visiting doctors and having procedures or being bedridden in hospitals. It was 85-year-olds with three diseases. And it’s also why the death rate in Italy is so high—these people were already very ill. I can see why the Italians are distinguishing between dying FROM the virus and dying WITH the virus...” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/24/the-italian-connection/ .

Probably the same people who are watching all them bush walkers, push bike riders, back road drivers, and power boaters, etc, crossing the borders... .

With all the good work MAF do they wont be down for long..? Interesting 3 minute video explaining, amongst other things, how the new 208 fleet will be good for all them short fields... .

Flight shaming' and the ethics of recreational flying? Far as I can see the thread is entirely on topic. If yer want to understand WHY somebody might have “shame” about flying then yer need to get back to the basics of where that mind-set came from - and is the mind-set justified. Perhaps there were just a bit of ‘panic buying’ of a media doomsday message..? ...or, perhaps there are other reasons...? .

Under an STC you can instal an Aspen and remove the original dial Altimeter and VSI. Aspen use vertical tape indicators. .