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Such as the advice that this was not going to be anything to worry about and we shouldn't adjust our day to day activities? That excellent and sound advice?

And shutting down an entire country for an extended period of time isn't? Just as a small case sample. The area I live in is a small community with probably about 75% of the adult workers working what's deemed "essential". These people are going to work, exercising what precautions they can, I doubt many wear mask but are probably working in smaller shifts with hand washing efforts etc... My town has had 2 cases since this has started and they are fully recovered. There hasn't been a new case here in weeks. So should this entire area remain locked down for as long as it take

No, what most of the herd immunity supporting scientists are saying is that you should have had about a 2 week lock down to stave off the rapid spread. Then following that you release the younger people with no underlying health issues for another period of time and allow them to become less likely host. Those will be less likely to have severe reaction to whatever virus is still on the move and much less likely to spread it further after they've contracted it and recovered. You do that for about a month and then you slowly voluntarily allow the other back in with precautions, the same precaut

Right, so because some scientist disagree with other scientist and you choose to think one group is right that makes the other group wrong? I don't think YOU understand science if that's what you're saying. It's not like herd immunity is some crack-pot theory thought up by mad scientists. There are a lot of infectious disease specialists saying exactly the same thing. If you want to get people immune from a disease, you have to have the populous build up immunity. This isn't like I'm saying something non-scientific. But it doesn't jive with what you've heard soo....it's anti-intellectualism? T

OR it could be that there is scientific data of differing view points (i.e. herd immunity vs isolation) and both sides will want to skew their view point in order to capitalize on the data showing what they WANT to happen. Not saying one is right over the other or one side is trying to skew facts more than the other. Both sides will try to get the end results they want. But just because some are calling for opening things up doesn't mean they are not trusting science. They are possibly just listening to scientific views that are different from your "common sense". Personally, I think it's goin

Is WNW still a project of the director Peter Jackson or is he not involved any longer?

Looks fantastic!

My wife found some today as well. It's like winning the lottery! Who knew? I told her we should stash a roll as an investment. Might be able to sell it to buy the house we've been wanting.

I think ridicule falls in to the exchange of ideas category. I'm not saying it should be done. But you cant take jabs at some people under the blanket of humor....and then turn around and say ridicule is out of the norms of discussion. But anyway....

Not to be picky, but I don't think you really understand the meaning of a truly open discussion. Open means EXACTLY what you're complaining about. Being able to say something and then having others be able to mock you, compliment you, ridicule you, disagree, agree or whatever they want to about it. It's not a play nice thing at all. Should people play nice? Absolutely. But that has nothing to do to with a free open discussion forum.

Oh look, it's the same pot stirrers saying political stuff "in fun" and then complaining when they get called on it and say drop the politics.. Not much changes here. People be nutz I tell ya. But as luck would have it, we have some of the smartest people on the planet right here that can call out everything the country and its leader is doing wrong and correct it all with a snide cute funny post in a non-political forum. Good job guys, you are the BEST!

Here's a shot I've found on my phone of the Tamiya color on my falcon.

Well, its not really white, it's actually a light grey. They call it white because I believe it's designed to represent the weathered underside of a 70's era white bottom USN jet. It's a pretty good match for the Star Wars ships with a very slight tan-ish tint to it. Almost creamy grey...

Butt hurt? Nah not really...I just find if funny. It's typically (not always but more often than not) the sign of a very immature young person who thinks they know better than the adults in the room. That's all. I don't necessarily think that's the case here because I THINK you have at least a little respect for what the veteran here might know. But I do find the term comical really.

From what I've found in my quest for Star Wars colors is that Tamiya spray can Insignia White (Tamiya AS-20 Spray Insignia White (USN) 3 oz TAM86520) is a pretty good match for a base color on a LOT of their ships. I've read somewhere what paint they probably used but I think it's an out of production paint line.It's a very light grey color and I've used it on my Millennium Falcon build and after weathering it looks pretty spot on in my eyes. The good thing about it also is that being a good lacquer paint, any weathering you do can be wiped off pretty easily if you go overboard or make a mista

AHHH...BOOMER, there it is, the mark of an intelligent come back. Why don't you just call him daddy-o, or pops or something nickname snotty-nosed youth would call the older generations from times passed. Perhaps one day, the know-it-all generation will figure out that they didn't really know much of it after all.

Because Top Gun is going to come out...and I feel the need.....the need for speed! Goodness gracious great balls of fire! Bill

That's why I believe these are likely screen printed. Similar to the raised screen printing they've been doing to make movie super-hero costumes. That's my guess anyway.

Look I apologize for being so harsh perhaps. But I am a bit tired of people taking EVERYTHING and making it seem offensive. Are there ignorant people who are going to look down on Chinese because of this? I'm sure there are. But that doesn't mean that every time someone uses a term it's intended with malice. But people seem so high strung lately that you practically can't talk without being labeled. The outrage culture is getting really old, really fast. And no offense, but your neck of the woods is ground zero for that attitude.

Perhaps the ignorant and pathetic thing is assigning hatred to an innocent use of terms. But good on you to feel so much better looking down on people for the use of a term. I'm sure you're MUCH better then anyone using that term. good grief people!

So is the Zika virus offensive? It came from an area around the Zika forest. And the Ebola Virus was named so because of it's geographical location of the origin. If anything, to just lump an entire continent to "black" is pretty offensive if you ask me. It's not like this is the first virus to be named for the location of origin. But hey, whatever, must be racist because...well because they said so.

Not to step too deep into a subject I'm definitely no expert in, but couldn't giving such a status report outside of the chain of command also be considered a pretty big security leak? I mean granted it's very far fetched scenario, BUT if someone were to be wanting to attack a naval ship, wouldn't a piece of information like a portion of the crew is sick be a sensitive classified thing that could put the ship at greater risk of attack? Yes, I know NO ONE is dumb enough to attack a modern super carrier....but still.

Not surprised...whatsoever.

What!!? You mean there isn't supposed to be outrage over every little possible misunderstanding of a potentially offensive statement? I thought that was the new norm. You MUST be offended by EVERYTHING or else you're not doing your part to prevent the spread of hatred....oh and probably spreading Covid-19 as well.

I believe all the pics I currently have are on photobucket so no longer show up. I will try to get a shot of it this evening when I get home. Edit, I found an old one on my phone. It's in the background but you can see the tank on the left of the desk. This is vomit brown. I'll have to see if I can find out what the new name of it is.