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Hurlburt Field (Ft. Walton Beach, FL) is on minimal staffing. They broke us into to teams. One team comes in one week and the other works from home, the next week we switch. I assume most military bases are doing something similar. The good news is that traffic is easy and parking is no problem now.
Not here Seabee's and students are wide open still training and standing in formation shoulder to shoulder. My clinic has some1 at the door that is it. What I am doing if my command won't protect me I am protecting my self by not working the front windows and staying in the back at my desk, if they don't like it send me home, I am older and higher risk. My wife contacted our congressman yesterday about the lack of protection by my command. It is unbelievable that this is going on when every other Medical office and Hospital is taking precautions but not here.....
Hey PG, I'm just over a 100 miles east of you off Hwy 98. Been noticing some very strange military air traffic the last few days. Quite a few V-22 Ospreys along with many various fighter jets on maneuvers. I'm assuming the Ospreys are out of Hurlbert but its the first time I've noticed them over this way. Makes me wonder whats up as we navigate these uncharted waters.
Birds aren't real
I've had a place in Destin for several years and seeing those Ospreys up close, over the water, just off the beach is a really cool sight. Impressive aircraft.
Well, Nicaragua now has it's first confirmed case.
I just left Hurlburt a couple years ago. Its just normal training flights. The unusualness of the pandemic is making it seem nefarious. The military aircrew have to maintain their qualification statuses which requires certain tasks to be completed every so many days. Could also be a unit that is getting ready to deploy or a guard/reserve unit that have to hit specific training requirements which necessitate a different route to check all the boxes. The government is reeling just like the rest of us. They are trying to figure out how to keep the mission going with as few people as possible. Its been a ghost town at my work. Only skeleton crews and contractors are working but we all have to maintain mission readiness so they rotate in out to keep current.
funny little story with those. The landing gear is notorious for not locking into place on landing (they land like a helicopter). So when they come in to land airmen have to run out and throw mattresses out to cushion the landing. Maybe they got it fixed by now but the maintainers I knew always complained about that.
Update in Indiana: Glad I started work from home last week. Found out a coworker has been diagnosed with COVID-19 which means my social distancing has now become a full blown 14 day quarantine. I work in a large office for a huge company, and they dragged their feet closing the office, and now a whole lot of us have been exposed. So far, no one in the house is exhibiting any symptoms, but I have a 9 month old baby with a respiratory condition that makes him high risk. Naturally, we are taking every precaution. We have made our doctors aware, and are monitoring him closest. The forts we built over the weekend still stand. Kids have no yet implemented the lord of the flies rules, so I am safe for now. I have been instructed to continue to work until we suspect someone in the house is sick, at which point we are to focus on recovery and isolation. Unreal how these processes work out in real life. Stay well out there my dawgs.
Your name and that comment remind me of the only German I know, because my dad used to say it all the time as a joke, "Vas ist los mit der Luftwaffe!?!"
we've had to update the song. "Nothing will stop the US Air Force except lightning within 5 and covid 19"
Keeping you and your newborn in my prayers (!)
I like some was skeptical at how bad this was, realizing that my son has an autoimmune disease(eczema but still) and that he could be at higher risk caused me to take 2 weeks vacation. I work in the service industry and our stores are staying open. I’m staying home for the 2 weeks but not sure what I’m going to do when the 2 weeks is over. It’s either go to work and separate from my family or go without pay. My wife is a school teacher so thankfully she’s able to take care of our son. Hopefully they can find a cure quickly. Say what you will about this administration but I think closing travel from China 10 days after reports likely prevented us from being much worse off now. We may still get there but hopefully people take this serious and we can knock it out quickly and get back to normality.
Also I got a bunch of socks with no match if anyone is running short on **** paper. $25 a sock /s
Testing is key.
On the Georgia Department's website only around 1500 people have been tested for Covid-19. From this group we have all our confirmed cases.
But that probably also means that there are many thousands more Georgians infected but currently asymptomatic roaming about.
I'm not so much concerned for kids and young adults, most of them seem to have mild or no symptoms at all. Who I'm concerned about are their middle-aged parents, and grandparents. My parents and inlaws are up in age, and looking at the mortality rate among the elderly is a little frightening.
If they contract the virus they have about the same chances of surviving it as surviving a game of Russian Roulette. The chances the wife and I, being middle-aged, is pretty good, but still I'm not liking the exit numbers from the confirmed cases. I realize that's not a great way to determine mortality rate, but when you're seeing exit states resulting in not insignificant numbers of deaths its a bit unnerving.
I expect the numbers here to really spike over the coming weeks. I hope I'm wrong.
Maybe this has been discussed, but it has been reported a 31 year old member of the UGA athletic dept has tested positive. My wife says they said on news they are hospitalized and on a respirator. Though, can’t confirm the last part.