Your Fear of Flying

I am talking to YOU, pilots.

Actions speak louder than words, they say. I think it is true. A person can talk all he likes about what his motivations are, what his plans are, how he is going to accomplish this or that. But when push comes to shove watch what a person does. He cannot fake that. By his actions and not his words you will know the real person.

Many pilots adopted wearing masks early to protect themselves from the corona virus. Then altruism reared its ugly head and mask wearing was demanded to show you "cared" about others. It became a propaganda statement rather than a protective measure.

Wearing the mask says I am afraid. Afraid of catching a cold.

When it comes to the corona virus if you deduct all the unnecessary nursing home deaths, the gun shot victims classified as a corona deaths, the heart attack victims classified as a corona deaths, the deaths that were not reported until months after they occurred thereby jacking up the death rate for the month they were reported and the deaths that doctors guessed were caused by corona because their hospitals are reimbursed at three times the flu rate you are left with a disease that is marginally worse than the flu.

So pilots are clearly afraid of the virus. Their employers are forcing them to appear fearful to the public. Passengers see pilots with their masks on. They get the message that pilots are afraid of the virus.

In the general population the chance of death from the virus is about 40 per 100,000 people. The occupational death rate for pilots and flight engineers is far higher at 58 per 100,000. Thus it follows that pilots must be far more afraid of flying than they are of the virus.

Do you think anyone wants to trust their lives to a pilot that is afraid of flying?