Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg (aka Alfred E Newman), made a rather stunning statement during an Axios interview today.
When discussing domestic travel and transportation as it related to COVID-19, the transportation secretary said: “there is an active conversation within the CDC now” about requiring COVID tests prior to air travel inside the United States.
This ridiculous position was unfortunately one of the issues CTH predicted might happen.
COVID is not a virus inasmuch as it is an opportunity to achieve social-change goals advocated by the far-left. Remember, one key element within the Green New Deal was to ban airplanes altogether.
The kindergarten class of tree-shouting, algae-cake-eating, everything must be sustainable and stupid, ie. leftist moonbats, are the ones offering actual policy suggestions.
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1359137022972207114
WARNING […] Think about who in Washington DC then takes control of what types of business interests are allowed to operation…. who determines the winning and losing.
Think about how Federal COVID-19 regulations can be used to put the multinational corporate world back (the globalists) on their former financial pathways, even without TPP and TTIP trade deals.
[Every domestic regulation weaponized against Main Street USA is a win for the Wall Street multinationals.]
Think about how much China and Europe would love to see our economy knee-capped in a Biden regulatory stranglehold; essentially achieving the same objectives as the Paris Climate Treaty.
Think long and hard about how far the tentacles of achieving the Green New Deal (pdf of GRD below) can extend under the auspices of federal COVID-19 mitigation.
Remember, those who are working on this don’t care about the middle-class and they have not for decades. The visibility of the ‘rust belt’ is the reference. This is about government bureaucrats using their DC power-base to control trillions in economic value and sell their ability to influence the winners and losers to the highest foreign bidder.
Look at what blue states have already done to seize power and control. Now think about that same manipulative intent spread throughout the entire country by weaponizing federal agencies with advanced regulation.
That should start to frame the reference point going forward. Remember, within totalitarian states religion is a risk… the assembly for religious worship is always considered a risk to by those who demand control over free-thought and lives.
The national legislative priority will be entirely focused on retention of that power system by generating an entirely new form of congressional representation. New states, new senators, new election systems, and funding for the needs of the executive…. that will be the focus of the facilitating legislative branch.
Those behind the executive branch; those controlling Joe Biden; will harness and weaponize the power. The legislative leftists will attempt to ensure the new systems they create under the guise of COVID-19 are never in a position to be withdrawn. (read more)
5) Key part though people is bit in fact sheet that explains why resolution is not immediately banning fossil fuels or demanding zero-emissions across economy. Because "we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast." Note "fully."
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) February 7, 2019
Everytime I see these incompetent a-hats, who could not function in the private sector, issuing mandates, it makes my blood boil! Would welcome the opportunity to “educate” this pos! I promise you, it would be an intensive session that would be clear, concise and one he would retain for a long time.
If you can’t tell – he’s a programmed clown.
CIA communist….and pedigreed!
The orcs of the left cannot be educated–they are beyond reason or logic.
I don’t not care to fly anymore. Europe looks just like us if not worse. I’ve been there many times before the invasion. I still have family that lives there. I’ve been telling them to come home but they think that we are doing worse than they are. Time will tell. No interest from Mexico down or North of us. Asia does not interest me either.
I am at the other end of the spectrum; 65 y.o., and have NEVER flown, although I have traveled much, and by many different modes.
I figure I got by without flying for 65 years, I can get by for another 65 without, as well!
Obviously, you’ve never been referred to as the “Flying Dutchman.” I’ve always enjoyed flying as I get where I want to go rather quickly. But being retired means my wife and I have plenty of time to do what we want. If they put this idiocy in, I’ll just drive my car or maybe buy/rent an RV and just enjoy myself on the way to wherever.
But if enough of us respond in that manner, telling them to shove it, next they’ll have border crossings at each state line where they instill the same requirements.
We may not have to worry about travel in the near future. At the rate the radical left is going, conservatives will be banned from all modes of public transportation or even moving about the country on their own. And I do not say that ‘tongue in cheek’.
We used to take the train from Boston to Richmond a couple times a year, and our daughter’s family at least once from Virginia. Now it’s either drive or stay home. We don’t like the damned masks.
I wrote up a proposal for Amtrak to free up some cars for those of us who hate the face diapers, which I call Freedom Cars. Not bloody likely, it seems, but if you’d like to read it, go here:
No way we’re flying, either. Tell the airlines you’ll get back on when they have Freedom Planes.
Makes me wonder if they are trying to kill the airlines??? I don’t know anybody who wants to fly.
Sure, “Green New Deal”, no air travel for serfs. Back to the stone age to honor Gaia.
This gets more ridiculous by the day! So, First Class and business class only. smh
Path to one state-owned airline for essential travel.
It was the early days of the internet, but you may be able to still find the policy paper and map. Clinton’s secretary of interior Bruce Babbitt was a member of some environmentalist group that advocated something similar to Green New Deal. In their plan there were air corridors to some select hubs – NY, St Louis, LA… and that would be the only airspace allowed for civilian air transportation. That plan morphed into Agenda 21, now the Great Reset.
Hmmmmm! Why am I not surprised? I don’t recall that, though I remember, vaguely, Babbitt.
Yes, more jobs to kill to ensure enslavement via UBI.
All but John Kerry. He is so important that he has to fly his private jet. The rest of us pions can walk or crawl.
I don’t think the bully attendants realize that this is also about busting their union. Same with the NFL whose owners have underfunded the players’ pensions.
I feel the same way. No mask travel for me… at least not at this point. I won’t lie…long enough pain and I could break. I really can’t fathom having to drive or not go anywhere ever again. I’m a terrible distance driver..will fall asleep at the wheel after 4 hours max no matter how much caffeine or rest. It puts me in a trance.
The first question that needs to be asked is how in h3ll is this legal?
Thank you!! I tried asking that question back when TSA first started requiring that we all separate our damn toiletries and walk into their cancer-causing peep show booths but almost no one saw a problem with it because it was “to keep people safe”! No, actually it was NOT…it was all about gaining control and taking away our civil rights and freedom to move around in a unrestricted manner unless the government could show a legal reason why we should not be allowed to do so! And this is just one more step on that continuum and they will just continue to take and take and take…until we have no more rights left and then will everyone finally wake up and realize that we were NOT crazy when we tried to warn them what was coming?
And watch for people carrying gold in the lining and hems of their clothing.
As bad as the TSA is, it at least had the imprimatur of Congress approving of what they were doing. Edicts from the CDC do not have even that. They are not a governing body. If they indeed have such authority through some emergency powers act, that act, like those in the various states, needs a total overhaul. COVID is not an emergency. The emergency is the destruction of our free society.
Congress could not care less about us losers. They only gave it an imprimatur because the hate us and want us to suffer.
Well,until you get control of the ballot counting and get rid of the corrupt judges that you have,you will either suck it up or fight.But whatever you do get yourselves organized if you are going to fight because you can bet they will use the cops and the military against you.
They are not even a purely gov’t body.
Congress loves all of this executive orders stuff. They all keep their cushy jobs and never have to do a single thing except bloviate. Recently, Chuck Schumer said he hoped Biden would declare a similar national emergency for climate change enabling him to act without any congressional action. They aren’t on the line for any of the blame when things get screwed up, and all they have to do is collect their salaries, enjoy their perks, and go to cocktail parties with all the other beautiful people. Living the dream!
It won’t be too much longer until the sticker shock sets in. Then all the clowns will scratch their heads and say, “what happened? It wasn’t supposed to be this way”. The other day I heard one of the union workers growling about the lay-offs. His friend asked him, “what did you expect”? He said, well I didn’t expect this. Sheep that are easy to be led are soon to be slaughtered.
Anything is legal in a banana republic. And of course, everything is ILLEGAL if you’re not in the Ruling Class.
And such luxuries as air travel powered by fossil fuels will never be eliminated… still available to the elites, but banned for the proles. If for no other reason, just to remind us who’s boss.
exactly
At this point, since it is inevitable that this system is being forced down our throats, we must use any means necessary to make it work for us.
What I mean is this; it is well known that the evil people intend, God intends that it is used for good. We can take that very outlook and apply it to our advantage.
Put another way, as an example, President Trump was famous for owning the downside and making lemonade out of lemons.
As was stated earlier by someone, or maybe it was on Rush’s show, with the stand-in host, Ken Matthews, we are a brilliant people and we have amazing engineering talent. Let us utilize our natural and skilled talents and beat these evil oligarchs at their own game.
Not that we stop fighting, no, never, but we shouldn’t be caught flatfooted (again (as in the election fraud (we all knew it was going to happen, yet we weren’t prepared for it, even though all of the signs were there.))) We MUST NEVER underestimate out enemy again, otherwise, we, as a people, will face genocide and be abolished (you can see the signs of it already, that is what they are preparing.))
Stand up. Stand strong. Look to God in heaven. Support one another as brothers and sisters, as family, as fellow patriots, as fighters, as if your life depends on it, because, it does.
God bless.
Correct. Whether or not the weak GOP sees it, we are at war. And in war, the rules of civilization are, and must be, temporarily set aside in order to defeat the forces arrayed against civilization itself.
Only when those evil forces are defeated can the rules be reestablished. Claiming that “sinking to the level” of our opponents will make us forever like them is to lack confidence in your civilization and flies in the face of our history. We dropped atomic bombs on Japan and fire-bombed Dresden but rebuilt out of the terrible ashes.
The left loves to hear us say that we won’t fight. We must remember that Christendom has developed the concept of a just war. The Founders knew of it. We wouldn’t have our country without it.
Thanks for mentioning the Christian just war and the link. Not sure where any of us go from here, but remembering who we were and are is necessary. As is always acknowledging that our Creator God is in control to establish His will.
Read the article. A just war is waged by legitimate authority, not private citizens. Non-authorized violence is just sedition, and is seriously immoral, especially for Christians
I did read it. I didn’t say we were yet at the point of a just war, but merely that Christians are not obligated to sit by and be persecuted.
And the just war theory, while in the Christian tradition, is not dogma and is not perfect in addressing all instances of oppression. However, there are many scriptural supports for violent opposition to evil. The admonition that there is a time for peace and a time for war doesn’t say anything about legitimate authority, though it implies authority from on high.
I am merely arguing for a muscular Christianity.
We, as Christians, must take the bull by the horns. We have a terrible problem with the GOP today. They cannibalize themselves. Turkey-neck McConnell today almost cheered when 6 Republicans joined ranks with the diabolical demwit democrats in saying that it is Constitutio0nal to impeach our President Trump. We need to purge the ranks of the GOP before the next election. These olds reprobate establishment Republicans are going to kill conservative politics. The impeachment is so clearly against the Constitution. Impeachment is to remove someone from office. Trump is no longer in office.
How about mandatory TB tests to cross the southern border?
Also polio and measles tests.
And Ebola and leprosy tests.
Pregnancy tests – we already have too many anchor babies.
Well in a short time one of those Anchor Babies will be President. I cannot imagine what we are in for then….even worse than Beijing Biden. No GOP will dare say NO to the intersectionality of Camela. She checks off 4 boxes……black, Indian,woman and Anchor baby!
I don’t actually think she’s black, although she claims to be.
Hell, they aren’t even requiring the covid test! Let them swarm across!
Oh well live with it,you did not see a problem with the TSA or passports for domestic flights,
“New York (CNN Busines)The proposal to require domestic airline passengers to prove they have tested negative for Covid-19 is a “horrible idea” said Ed Bastain, CEO of Delta Air Lines.
Bastain told CNN’s Poppy Harlow Tuesday that the proposal being discussed by the Biden Administration would drain testing resources away from people who need it more. He said the number of confirmed Covid cases transmitted during air travel since the start of the pandemic has been “absolutely minimal.”
“It will not keep domestic flyers safer,” he said. Planes have hospital quality air filters on board and exchange fresh air into the cabin every few minutes, reducing the chance of transmission.
“In fact [there are] very, very few documented cases globally, not just domestically,” Bastain said of air-travel related infections. He added that the domestic testing requirement would take “about 10%” of the resources the country needs “to test sick people away from those people.”
Covid tests are required for some international travelers in an effort to stop new variants of the virus from spreading more rapidly in the United States. Tests are also required before boarding flights to Hawaii but not for most domestic flights.
Bastain said adding the requirement would be a “logistical nightmare” that would be a body blow to the already struggling airline and hospitality industries.
The CEO is a fool. His ‘business’ depends upon people using airplanes to travel and every airline trashed, insulted and humiliated Trump Supporters on the trip back from DC. Hope all of them lose their jobs and their businesses. The waitresses on the fights I had to take in October were mean, nasty people. And I still had to jump through 20 hoops to get on the plane including letting TSA Union Employees paw through my clothes and shampoo.
I have lifetime flying privileges on Delta so I am praying this does not happen. Bastain is a virtual signally lib like most CEO’s these days. I am glad he is finally standing up for his employees and customers unlike the United CEO who wants mandatory vaxes for everyone. I don’t want my friends to lose their jobs, and I have lots of trips I want to take! The international testing rule is bad enough. If you misconnect, your 72 hours could be up mid trip. Plus some countries are charging big bucks for the tests. It is killing international travel. Listen, I know all the security checks are bad and often make no sense. But this is much worse.
Borders wide-open no masks no testing but American citizens forced into mask slavery…
It’s always that way. You land in any airport coming from abroad you have to declare your goods and you are not allowed to bring certain things. But drugs across the border. Sure!
Don’t you dare bring a fruit that was served on the plane, into the US, it could have some disease. But, you can do that if you cross the border illegally.
Illegals cross w no passport no med exams they carry whatever they like.
But US citizens? The authoritarian police state cant allow an opportunity to jam a microscope up your posterior, and slap you around a bit, to go to waste.
The harassment at customs is ridiculous and out of control. 99.99% of returnibg travelers are not drug smugglers or criminals. Yet, they must administer Sovietesque interrogation intimidation and abuse to every citizen. Welcome home.
Our govt has become a full on police state.
Klaus Schwab is running the US by proxy.
Even the eyes match.
Meanwhile, the friends and family of those having the discussions on airline travel requiring Whuflu tests are buying put options on the major US airlines.
Follow the money!
This is everything.
So much of the GOPe, Romney logic is these people must still be reasonable, must still be reachable.
No.
The opposition, the enemy is anarchist.
If America were brought down, if America were ended, the world would be a better place.
Start there. They do.
And yet no test for those coming across the border illegally many coming from countries with high infection rates and have been living and traveling in massive crowds. Just turn them loose into the country.
Alfred E. Newman has soooo much experience with transportation issues……his expertise is invaluable. ?
Not sure if we’ve descended into a Maoist state or a freaking comedy sketch.
His expertise is in installing communism for the masses. He is an elite manager. here is no plan for allowing the vermin slaves to travel, why would he need any expertise in THAT????
Who pays me back if I book $1800 is airline tickets for my whole family for our vacation then we get to the airport and one kid gets a false positive, preventing us from our vacation?
Then who pays back what I owe to the hotel or property owner?
These idiots think people will book vacations with a risk of losing, at the absolute last second, 1-10K people paid for vacations? Sounds insane…no one would ever book a trip! You’d have to be fabulously rich.
To say nothing of having your hopes dashed after all the prep and wait of your big vacation only to be told “no way, Jose” at the airport.
This doesn’t seem workable at all. I would buy stock in anything RV related, but then again if they ban fossil fuel that eliminates most RVs…so I guess I better keep my pool in tip top shape because doesn’t look like they want to let us out of our cells, at all.
You are assuming of course that is not the next plan,covid check stations at the state boarder. Sundance already warned all of us.
Then county? Then township? Then subdivision? Then front door, then your bedroom?!
Bet your bottom dollar.
I’m guessing the DOT favors the anal swab method COVID test?
Remember when that company was re-using the endoscopy and colonoscopy tubes in CA?
“I’m COVID positive and pregnant?”
Is it time for rope and lamp posts? I’d say it’s way past that time. In fact, it’s the only solution we have left. Change my mind!
The Southern boarder is wide open, no COVID test but hey make your own citizens obey. It is sickening.
I was thinking the same thing. Time for a class action discrimination lawsuit.
“ The kindergarten class of tree-shouting, algae-cake-eating, everything must be sustainable and stupid, ie. leftist moonbats, are the ones offering actual policy suggestions.”
Reply from Isaiah 3:12
“As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.“
Would you be prefer to be governed by a manly man like the Donald or an insipid puke like
this A E Neumann clone?
The Butt-Pig is a bona fide expert in transportation. After all, while serving in Afghanistan for 6 months he was the official driver for a General Officer.
Toss this into the covid mix
“Pathogenic Priming & Autoimmune Risks“https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2021/02/09/pathogenic-priming-autoimmune-risks/#comment-139453
Thank you. I was going to do a web search on that topic tonight. You must have read my mind.
At least 36 people develop blood disorder and a doctor DIES after receiving Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines – as experts probe potential link between shots and the rare condition
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9241027/36-people-developed-rare-blood-disorder-covid-vaccination.html
Is Sundance Miss Cleo?!? Another case of I read about this on CTH months ago.
Happy my mom and dad are flying out to visit me (and the kids) next week- we prolly won’t see them for a while after that.
The Covid scare was designed for the coming election fraud, and Puppet Joe’s Deep State handlers were behind it.
Besides shutting down a booming economy, it made orchestrated rioting possible and led to calls for a mail-in election.
President Ford’s “Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States” documented that the CIA instigated and coordinated riots across the United States during the 1960s. Leftist CIA officers were behind the riots. My book has the details.
Leftist CIA officers revived orchestrated rioting in 2020 to make it seem like anti-Trump sentiment was widespread in America.
President Ford’s Commission on CIA Activities also documented that the CIA intercepts U.S. mail.
Leftist CIA officers promoted the Covid scare so they could force a lockdown, damage the economy, and orchestrate riots while they pushed for a mail-in election to make their election fraud seem legitimate.
Leftist CIA officers have been building up control in the government for decades. They are bent on destroying America.
Read “DESTROYING AMERICA: The CIA’s Quest to Control the Government.”
Leftist to describe what is going on here is the wrong word. They are Communists.period.
And don’t forget Papa Bush!!!
[Every domestic regulation weaponized against Main Street USA is a win for the Wall Street multinationals.]
I’m avoiding participating in this globalist economy like the plague.
I do support local, small business. For most part, that is it.
Amazon, what’s that?
I never used Amazon until the swamp started to shut everything down and I was buying everything online. Specially due to shortages of products locally.
But now, after about 8 months of Prime. I’m done with them. No more.
Great time to clean up your house, declutter and sell everything you don’t use.
2 benefits of selling used items:
1- Move cash around locally.
2-It keep people from buying new stuff at the store. Buy used, get what you need and starve the corporations. “Underground economy”.
Local Farm Markets are also great, some even deliver.
The road to tyranny; take ALL the basic neccesities, people depend on; energy, both electric and transportation, food, shelter, jobs, medical care, etc.
Create SHORTAGES, and make citisens dependant on the Government to obtain, while sewing DIVISION.
Require citisens to relinquish liberty, as the cost of access.
BINGO, Tyranny achieved.
“What, Me Worry?”
Yes, me worry….
Everything is destruction with these people. They probably won’t allow an antibody test, so people who’ve had it will test positive. I guess this is another way to force a vaccine.
They act like they actually understand what their staffers wrote for them.
Please build a bridge to Aruba because we’re not flying anywhere any day soon.
Pete’s daddy was a marxist.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto
First thought that came to mind … Stuck on Stupid.
We’re closing in on the point of no return. We need to get our 80 million patriots organized quickly so we can make our voices heard. At this point who cares what politicians think, do or say. They do this to keep us distracted and divided. Are there groups popping up yet that are trying to amass the 80-100 million pissed off people in the US? We need to focus our anger onto things we can do in a concerted and coordinated effort to affect what we can where we can ASAP (no politicians please). With 80 million people on board we could have masks eliminated in no time by all agreeing to not wear them. Once this starts to take affect it’ll show who’s with us and who may be against us when you go to stores, restaurants (which we can also deem to re-open and frequent), etc. We can also target the monopolies like Walmart, Amazon, You Tube Twitter FB. 80 million people not using or frequenting their services would put them all out of business or at least know we mean business. F___ the politics for now and focus on putting a hurt on those pulling the strings. Politicians are great at dividing people by creating hot button issues that in reality affect our daily lives very little but are great to seperate into sides. We need to use our 80 million strong to organize and pick the best actions that obviously may be a bit of a sacrifice by shopping local, getting off FB etc but seems a small price to pay. It’s now time to make some sacrifices in creature comforts in order to save our country.
What about starting right here and now with these great followers of CTH. If we flood social media with a message that doesn’t involve political issues or politicians we have a better chance of people joining our cause. I loved Trump as President but he’s much to polarizing a figure to get a larger demographic involved. We pick a couple issues such as doing away with masks and frequenting places that don’t require them then we could extremely quickly start to change the narrative and it wouldn’t involve violence. 80 million strong. Sundance, you’re a wordsmith, how about allowing us to use this platform to get the ball rolling. We need a a concise message we can bring forward. Hopefully this can spread to other boards we all frequent. We don’t have time to waste. What do we have to lose.
Though I understand what you were saying about the hyped up, untrained intellect of those perpetrating the Impeachment of No One, I lightly resent them being called kindergarten people. Kindergarteners are wonderful people who love to learn. When they’re corrected they redirect themselves. They love to play fair and know when someone is out. They also know that they cannot cry and pout if they don’t get their way or what they think they want. They know that one minus one is zero. And they all tend to love life unless they’ve been hurt in some way and then we talk , cry a little, and get on with life. They are not at all like these aliens who hang their diplomas on the wall but can’t remember what they were taught in the law.
They do not correct themselves and have been off on a deviant path for four years, unable to forgive or forget that they didn’t get what they wanted. They don’t understand that a president can’t be impeached if he is no longer in office? The only way they can do that is if they bend, break, distort, twist, and pervert the laws of the game. Any Kindergartner knows that that’s a bad way to try to win. The question on the playground always is:
Will the rules be enforced by an authority figure or will the lawless get away with it? How are our authority figures doing in the public arena these days? Anyone on this site could answer that question in spades. What we need is someone who trumps them all.
Coworker said he supports this. I said I support demanding that C19 survivors be required to give convalescent plasma. “Why are they so selfish to keep their own blood? Don’t they know they have the power to save lives?”
I thought I heard something crack in there. He had nothing to say. Or maybe his jaw was broken, as his mouth was wide open.
Nice!
/s
Are ‘the tests’ going to double as a dna test – for the untold, big brother, data bases
(for nefarious purposes…for uhhh… the greater good [ and whom is that, that gains ] )?
I do not know
imho
Mayor Pete Is Chomping At The Bit For The Chinese “Butt-Swab” Tests.. It’s Gonna Be 3-Mask’s And And The Q-Tip To Fly Coach….
here’s the good news about being a banana republic. when we take control someday…..and we will eventually take control again….then we can simply unimpeach him.
Pete Butt-gig’s father translated the poisonous writings of Antonio Gramsci into English. The father of PC Cultural Marxism. Did you know that?
At least 36 people develop blood disorder and a doctor DIES after receiving Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines – as experts probe potential link between shots and the rare condition
ITP is an auto-immune disease
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9241027/36-people-developed-rare-blood-disorder-covid-vaccination.html
They’re trying to kill the airlines, then it’s onto combustible motor vehicles. Then bicycles and skateboards with 2-stroke engines.
If we fully rid ourselves of all the “farting cows” that would mean all of these pathetic pieces of human debris would be gone. And I have nothing against actual cows. These people much more resemble the lead characters in “Animal Farm,” but even referring to them as swine poses a stretch objective for them.
Aren’t wolves a protected species? I’m not sure why, but I sense we’re going to start seeing a lot of silent lone wolves venturing around in the night. Hey Pete, is there something howling behind your house?
I KNEW this was coming. COVID= Certificate of Vaccination ID. Then it WILL be the same if you want to shop ANYWHERE. Prepare for ” Halt! PAPERS, PLEASE”
Not sure if this could happen but my prediction is IF this insane measure passes there is going to be a huge black market for fake Wuhan China Virus testing. Same goes if the actual vaccine is required for air travel. Other than that people will find other ways to travel or simply not travel by air at all.
Research his tenure as Southbend mayor, it won’t surprise you.
There is an article about Germany on zero hedge this a.m. discussing the fact that the sun is not shining and the solar panels are covered with snow, to boot – so forget that source of energy. The wind is not blowing and the windmills are not turning but are using electricity (from where?)to keep the movable parts from freezing in case the wind does blow. Germany is depending on coal and gas these days because of the weather. Germany is waiting for the gas pipeline from the big R to be completed. IMO, 100% clean energy, unless you include nuclear, is a recipe for freezing to death especially when you consider that it is not getting warmer but colder. Oh well.
The idea of putting politics before science is exemplified by this process of having the push for domestic pre-flight China virus testing originate with the pols and not the doctors. One can only imaging that the sole holdup is how the pols can exempt themselves from the requirement (and exempt their donors who travel by private plane and charter) without getting stomped by the negative publicity. It goes without saying that the dems will find a way to bail out the airlines when business drops further based on objections to mandatory testing. Aren’t people already double masking on flights? Is that not working to prevent the alleged spread?
Speaking only for myself, I do not want the TSA shoving a Q-tip into my sinuses, and if this is going to be mandated then I will not ever board an airplane.
HE says …What me worry?…
Looking at the Covid-19 vaccination response from the present administration, I’d rather take my chances with the dirty air which is primarily tainted because of a lack of restrictions in China and India. Something that’s failed to be addressed by Pete or his minions.