Winter and COVID finally got the best of me

[steingar]

Didn't go flying today.  Beautiful weather, but cold.  Had to move a few inches of ice built up in front of the hangar.  Were it warmer I probably would have.  Had I a passenger to go somewhere I probably would have.  Had I somewhere to go, I probably would have.  But just to go up by myself to do some landings, it was just too much.  Bought a bottle of booze instead.

[Ross Statham]

Bummer.  But I’ve come to believe that some days/weeks/months/years are best put behind me, or sometimes just used as a contrast to look back on later when things are going “ok”.  Not going necessarily great, mind you, just “ok.”  Had one of those cold rainy days today in the Florida panhandle.  Spent much of it in the shop trying to get myself motivated.  Mixed success.  Got a couple of new cabinets bought and spray painted anyway.

Hang tough, bubba.

[0TreeLemur]

I have an hour flight planned for tomorrow to keep the oil freshened up and the parts wet.   Plus, I watched the SocialFlight webinar by Mike Busch last week where he pointed out the utility of doing mag-checks in cruise to diagnose the health of the ignition system using the engine monitor data logs.  Since I'm going in for annual here in a couple of weeks, I thought that would be a good thing to do tomorrow.  Supposed to be a nice day here in 'bama.

[Planegary]

Ya know sometimes you just have to say to hell with it and open the bottle and throw away the cap.no every day mind you but sometimes you just have to decompress and I think we have all been in an emotional vise for the last year and need some mental down time.

[steingar]

By the way the booze was really good.  A local distillery that made really good high end bourbon closed some time ago, and I think I might have got the last bottle.  Paid less than half price too.  Definite silver lining to that one. Once the wx warms up I can at least mask up and take a passenger. Can't even do that now, mask fogs my glasses in the cold no matter what I do.

 

[Danb]

Biden’s TFR here in Wilmington keeping us grounded, going to be a long four years. The rules are ridiculous apparently we’re all   deadly. The guys in West Palm must be glad there nightmare is over.

[MooneyMitch]

22 hours ago, steingar said:

Didn't go flying today.  Beautiful weather, but cold.  Had to move a few inches of ice built up in front of the hangar.  Were it warmer I probably would have.  Had I a passenger to go somewhere I probably would have.  Had I somewhere to go, I probably would have.  But just to go up by myself to do some landings, it was just too much.  Bought a bottle of booze instead.

Some days are just not meant for flying...... better and brighter days ahead for you.  Your beautiful Mooney is always there waiting for you.

[jaylw314]

3 hours ago, steingar said:

By the way the booze was really good.  A local distillery that made really good high end bourbon closed some time ago, and I think I might have got the last bottle.  Paid less than half price too.  Definite silver lining to that one. Once the wx warms up I can at least mask up and take a passenger. Can't even do that now, mask fogs my glasses in the cold no matter what I do.

 

If you have a good N95 mask, that's the place to use it (in the cockpit, not while drinking bourbon!).  Despite the filtration, N95's are more breathable than cloth masks, so if you get it fit correctly, it shouldn't come out the top and sides to fog up your glasses.

[Yetti]

One day I am grabbing a SCBA off the trucks and going grocery shopping.  Cloth masks aint stopping microbe.

[steingar]

On 2/7/2021 at 11:54 AM, jaylw314 said:

If you have a good N95 mask, that's the place to use it (in the cockpit, not while drinking bourbon!).  Despite the filtration, N95's are more breathable than cloth masks, so if you get it fit correctly, it shouldn't come out the top and sides to fog up your glasses.

The problem isn't breathability, that never bothered me.  No matter what humid air comes out the sides of the thing and fogs up my very cold glasses.

[ilovecornfields]

You’re obviously wearing the wrong mask. This is the one all the cool kids are wearing:

https://narwallmask.com/products/narwall-mask

 

Edited February 9, 2021 by ilovecornfields

[aviatoreb]

10 minutes ago, ilovecornfields said:

You’re obviously wearing the wrong mask. This is the one all the cool kids are wearing:

https://narwallmask.com/products/narwall-mask

 

Dang!

[Hank]

On 2/7/2021 at 10:58 AM, Yetti said:

One day I am grabbing a SCBA off the trucks and going grocery shopping.  Cloth masks aint stopping microbe.

The cloth mask you wear isn't intended to protect you--it's intended to minimize aerosol & droplet dispersion from you to protect people around you in case you are sick.

[Andy95W]

1 hour ago, ilovecornfields said:

You’re obviously wearing the wrong mask. This is the one all the cool kids are wearing:

https://narwallmask.com/products/narwall-mask

 

500 years later, and things really haven’t changed much.

[Hank]

8 minutes ago, Andy95W said:

500 years later, and things really haven’t changed much.

Except during the Plague, the mask had a "snout" so that various herbs could be put inside to protect the wearer. We've moved beyond that now, and know what is causing our disease and that breathing through dried flowers and leaves won't do much for it . . . .

[Yetti]

36 minutes ago, Hank said:

The cloth mask you wear isn't intended to protect you--it's intended to minimize aerosol & droplet dispersion from you to protect people around you in case you are sick.

So if I am taking my temperature every hour and am not sick then wearing of a mask creates a greater risk to me of sinus infection.  I will present to you Japan that has 100% compliance with mask wearing and still has virus spread.   People not picking their noses would be better prevention.

 

[Hank]

44 minutes ago, Yetti said:

So if I am taking my temperature every hour and am not sick then wearing of a mask creates a greater risk to me of sinus infection.  I will present to you Japan that has 100% compliance with mask wearing and still has virus spread.   People not picking their noses would be better prevention.

 

That's where "wash your hands" and "don't touch your face" come into play . . . .

Just like watching only your ASI won't guarantee a good landing. It's more than 1 step to success. 

[ilovecornfields]

46 minutes ago, Yetti said:

So if I am taking my temperature every hour and am not sick then wearing of a mask creates a greater risk to me of sinus infection.  I will present to you Japan that has 100% compliance with mask wearing and still has virus spread.   People not picking their noses would be better prevention.

 

Please don’t start up with this. Absolutely not true and has been thoroughly debunked. 

[ragedracer1977]

3 hours ago, ilovecornfields said:

You’re obviously wearing the wrong mask. This is the one all the cool kids are wearing:

https://narwallmask.com/products/narwall-mask

 

Unless you want to fly.  IIRC, Delta United recently kicked someone off for wearing one of those and insisted they wear a crappy cloth mask instead.  

No mask:  Get the hell out.

Extremely effective mask:  Get the hell out.

Cloth gaiter of dubious effectiveness:  Welcome aboard!  Feel free to remove it when we bring peanuts and drinks by!

 

edit:  Sorry it was United.  https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/man-kicked-off-united-flight-for-wearing-scuba-inspired-mask/

Edited February 9, 2021 by ragedracer1977

[aviatoreb]

2 hours ago, Hank said:

Except during the Plague, the mask had a "snout" so that various herbs could be put inside to protect the wearer. We've moved beyond that now, and know what is causing our disease and that breathing through dried flowers and leaves won't do much for it . . . .

Thanks for mentioning those plague masks "doctors" of the era would wear.  I have wondered about them.  Why the long snout and you just explained it.

But I wonder if there was still a small benefit since perhaps it did isolate the air a bit, like a crude medical mask like we wear today?

[Hank]

2 minutes ago, aviatoreb said:

Thanks for mentioning those plague masks "doctors" of the era would wear.  I have wondered about them.  Why the long snout and you just explained it.

But I wonder if there was still a small benefit since perhaps it did isolate the air a bit, like a crude medical mask like we wear today?

The Plague was rarely airborne, except for the pneumonic strain which was highly fatal. Bubonic Plague is typically transmitted through flea bites. Wearing things on your face offers no protection against them.

[aviatoreb]

16 minutes ago, Hank said:

The Plague was rarely airborne, except for the pneumonic strain which was highly fatal. Bubonic Plague is typically transmitted through flea bites. Wearing things on your face offers no protection against them.

Thanks for educating me!

Was bubonic plague the only main historical plague that was around during the period of those bird masks?  

flea bite born plagues clearly not much help.

 

[Mark89114]

We are ignoring the eyes completely.  I was always told the flu got in through their as it was nice warm moist spot for viruses to live.  How it gets from there to the rest of the body is beyond me.  Yes the flue isn't COVID, but in my uneducated opinion it is close enough.  I guess i should google it.  

[flyboy0681]

On 2/7/2021 at 10:57 AM, Danb said:

Biden’s TFR here in Wilmington keeping us grounded, going to be a long four years. The rules are ridiculous apparently we’re all   deadly. The guys in West Palm must be glad there nightmare is over.

I'll bet you a weeks salary that Joe doesn't shutdown your airspace nearly as much as Trump did mine, which was over 350 days. But to answer your question, yes, we are glad it's over.

[Hank]

50 minutes ago, aviatoreb said:

Thanks for educating me!

Was bubonic plague the only main historical plague that was around during the period of those bird masks?  

flea bite born plagues clearly not much help.

 

The Black Death hit Europe periodically beginning in 1347, when it claimed at least 30% of the population. Daniel Defoe wrote an account of one of its milder returns in 1665, ended by the Great Fire of London.

The infection caused lymph nodes to swell painfully and turn red and/or black. People called these dark swellings "buboes;" never heard why. Thus "Bubonic Plague." In the age where breathing pleasant odors was thought to defend a person from disease, nobody is sure just what was going on back then. Some good detective work has been done when construction revealed plague pits across Europe, hastily dug mass graves to hold sudden thousands of bodies . . .

There are still several cases most years in the American southwest, caused by flea bites that have earlier bitten infected rats. Modern antibiotics cures it quickly unless treatment is deferred for too long.

All very "not applicable" to our current pandemic, although we seem to have developed a milder form of social unrest and belief in alternative therapies. London found that bonfires on every streetcorner didn't drive away the disease either. What's your favorite COVID conspiracy theory? I like the "vaccinations just enable government to control your mind" myself. If it was that easy, they'd just add it to city water supply or spray around town . . . .