{"id":30558,"date":"2022-03-01T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=30558"},"modified":"2022-03-01T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:53:49","slug":"breaker-breaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=30558","title":{"rendered":"Breaker Breaker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is it just me, or does the KOLD News 13 staff seem giddy with excitement? I mean, check this shit out<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – A convoy of truckers demanding an end to coronavirus mandates is coming through Tucson this week.<\/p>\n

The convoy is expected to pass through Phoenix around 9 a.m. Thursday and Tucson about two hours later. The group is called \u201cAmerican Convoy I-10 Division.\u201d Their Facebook group can be joined at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/659737228500794.<\/p>\n

According to an Eventbrite post, supporters are meeting at 3346 South Sixth Avenue. It is a commercial parking lot that is a \u201cshort distance to the South 6th Ave Bridge\u201d that overlooks Interstate 10.<\/p>\n

Attendees are asked to bring their flags and signs and wear patriotic gear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I’m thankful we don’t have to deal with 40-mile-long Russian convoys of tanks, BMPs, rocket launchers, missile carriers, and support vehicles. Just little fifth-column agitprop convoys, organized by home-grown useful idiots, funded (probably) by Putin.<\/p>\n

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The CDC says the Covid threat level in Tucson remains high, although most people you see in stores and restaurants no longer mask. City, county, and state buildings … libraries, schools, DMV offices … still require masks. At a doctor’s office last week the receptionist handed me a disposable surgical mask and asked me to put it on in place of the cloth mask I was wearing. Funny thing was, for the past four or five months I’d only worn surgical masks; the day I went to the doctor was the first one in a long time I’d felt safe going back to cloth.<\/p>\n

I think, even if Arizona follows California’s lead and ends mask requirements, they’re still going to be required wear … at the very least in hospitals and doctors’ offices … for a long time to come.<\/p>\n

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A former squadron mate plans to fly to Tucson in late March for a visit. In his Piper Cherokee. I haven\u2019t seen him since the early 1980s, when he and I flew F-15s at Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands. Even though the folks I worked with in the military were pilots, with many going on to second careers with the airlines, only a tiny fraction own their own aircraft. There’s just three I can think of right off. The friend who’s coming to visit later this month, who has both the Cherokee and a Chinese aerobatic two-seater he flies in airshows; another Netherlands squadron mate who’s part owner of a MiG-15, which he also flies on the airshow circuit; and a man I taught to fly during my Air Training Command instructor days, now a rich stockbroker with a Cirrus. All three struck it rich in their post-USAF careers. As much as I love flying, if I had their money I\u2019d collect classic cars and motorcycles instead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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