This site has become an absolute dumpster fire of idiocy. I think the mods have actually done a disservice to the pilot community in Canada by entertaining the loons. This last decade has brought so much change to our information consumption habits. It's unfortunate that so many can't seem to handle...

Curiousflyer wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 3:37 am
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Need a kidney transplant? That’s coming by air
Need new clothes? That’s coming by air
Need new electronics? That’s coming by air
Need pharmaceuticals? That’s coming by air

Don't need Coronavirus? Too bad, that already came to us all by air.

Coronaviruses are common colds and have been known about for at least 90 years. This is basic 11th grade biology (well, maybe not in inner city schools), not to mention . Just like many colds and influenza, a respiratory infection can develop. The at-risk demographic is similar to influenza (and ma...

You’re in too deep. Tip: If your “news” sources like to use terms like “MSM” and you find yourself reiterating those same talking points on a professional pilot’s forum you’ve been propagandized. Take a break from the net and go strike up some conversations with some real people outside of your soci...

Shayne, I see real problems that we as a society are ineffectual at dealing with because there is a huge schism in our informational spheres. The problems aren’t insurmountable, but divisive rhetoric and nut balls like you are only hindering our ability to act rationally as a team. It’s a breakdown ...

Ranting and raving about blue pills and red pills and sheep and the gestapo is not conversation. It’s a kind of poison injection into the civil discourse of our society. And there is so much of it. It’s impossible to refute or address it in any meaningful way. Our continued ability to converse is ju...

More likely, a renewed appreciation for local supply chains vs. global ones - particularly in medical supplies. Can already see politicians using our current situation to stoke the fires of isolationist and protectionist tendencies. A more distributed supply chain obviously makes us more resilient ...

We have reached peak idiocy, it seems. The tinfoil hat wearing, rebel news brigade has descended upon the thread. I fear meaningful discussion is at an end. On a personal note, I am so sick of this shit. I wish Facebook and Twitter and YouTube never happened. This kind of opinionated deluge of intel...

You are right. Stopping travel from China ONLY would not have stopped it 100% and we will unfortunately never know how much it may have helped. A worldwide travel ban would have been 100x better. However, common sense would dictate the first country you should ban travel from would be where patient...

the bungled response was not stopping travel (movement of the virus) SCIENCE. because of political correctness, economics. IDEOLOGICAL. Who was sowing division......its science. Thanks for the encouragement. I would agree that NOT stopping all international travel was a mistake. But is that what yo...

The virus DID follow political ideology; it followed inclusiveness and tolerance. We should just find the root cause. We should be coming together to deal with this with the tools of science and evidence-based decision making. Not sowing division. I encourage you to think about that instead of purs...

How does anything I said not have anything to do with science. I accept the science and have come up with a solution that minimizes lives lost and prevents economic disaster. Once again...show me where I said anything that is not backed up by scientific reality. Expect nothing folks. Listen to your...

Fox news is not reality. Reality isn't "fair and balanced". There are not two sides to the story. There is fact and there is fiction. You can blather about which side is right and wrong, or how both were wrong and share equal amounts of blame. It doesn't matter. The reality of this DOES NOT CARE. Th...

Pelmet.

You are part of the problem.

Stop.

Taken in the context of the political climate at the time, I think it was naive to think that banning Chinese flights would have been that effective. We have the stark examples of the US and Italy being some of the earliest nations to do just that, yet they are some of the hardest hit nations. I thi...

You think someone who lost their job, are worse, a couple, both of whom lost their jobs, don’t care about several thousand dollars they have in a paid vacations ? Right now it is the airlines looking bad for not being able to reimburse the unused tickets (airlines worldwide) for if they did, they w...

Nice text. I don’t disagree with it. But..... What if the government aid package was conditional on reimbursing all the passengers that had cancelled flights, many of which had not yet even left Canada ? For now, they, not the airlines, are paying for it. The question of reimbursement is obviously ...

I think I have a problem with the question, fundamentally. Like so many parts of the western world's decision making process in the midst of this crisis, you're framing the question in economic terms, when we're dealing with a problem that transcends that. The more fundamental concern at play is the...

There's going to be a bunch of conspiracy bullshit floating around on social media and even the mainstream media for years to come. All of it is going to be inflamed for political gain by both nations. It wouldn't surprise me if the bat piss story was something that was leaked to the media by the US...

Tell me honestly that even 1 month ago anyone would have envisioned the events of the past 10 days. Laying off an entire company of pilots (and other employees) all at once has never occurred in this industry outside of a company shutdown post 9/11. https://i.imgur.com/J1cOpxJ.jpg Just sayin'...