When it really happens: SHTF...

[Aragorn243]

This years high school rifle team:

Finally got some guidance on how the season is happening. Unlike other sports, we actually don't have to physically meet the other team so we are all shooting on our home ranges this year and the coaches are exchanging targets so they are scored by the same individual. This is not ideal as part of the High School experience is meeting your opponents and traveling to compete. But this is better than nothing. My school has been proactive in getting me additional equipment and supplies to get through the season. My local lumber yard has been supportive and provided me with four barriers so I can get more kids on the line at a time. It would have been three with social distancing, with the barriers I can get five, six is normal.

Team size is 15 which is very small for me. I usually have 24-28. I have 12 returning and 17 new that have to tryout for 3 slots. Normally, no where near the 17 actually show up but I'm still going to have to cut a lot of kids this year.

Prior to practice, they all have to sanitize their hands, they have to fill out a self certification which I have not seen yet but have been told there is a list of symptoms and if they have two or more they cannot practice. There is also a contact question which can also result in no practice and they must have a water bottle. Now in other sports, this makes sense, for me, not so much but we still have to adhere to it. My kids don't get dehydrated.

They must wear masks except when shooting, they must wipe down any shared equipment which for us is the rifles and the scopes. Everything else, jacket, glove, glasses, pellet box, sling and mat they each have their own. They are kept together with the exception of the mat inside the jacket and are hung on a hanger with a garbage bag over it all.

I'm the only one touching the targets this year from start to finish. Every day is going to be like a match day. I can't touch the kids or help them with their equipment which will make it difficult for some of the girls. Some always seem to have trouble with their slings, getting them tight and getting them on and off the rifle. I can hit them with a big stick, LOL, which isn't extremely helpful. Basically I have to figure out how to use the stick to get their elbows, knees and legs where they belong. Technically, the 12 already know this so I only have 3 to worry about. They will also have assigned times to shoot so only 5 are on the range at any given time.

I'm to space out the best shooters because if one is quarantined, probably all five in the group will be quarantined. If I am quarantined, the team is shut down until my return.

Should be a fun season.

[Ovidio]

A few minutes ago our mayor, a long time hard core communist, walked past my home with his deputy. In the middle of the road. A few months ago the community police put a letter in our boxes saying that parking on the other side of the road was prohibeted and would be met with fines.
There is no sign telling that it is prohibited, plus, on my side of the road, we have a three meter wide pedestrian and cyclist track. And not a single parking slot for 400 meters, other than the neglected other side of the road.
I wrote an email to the community police, mayor in cc, reminding them that we have that wide track almost no-one uses, so, maybe, they should fine or educate (better choice, I wrote) those who don’t use it. And that’s the vast majority of people!
Then we have plenty criminals driving at foolish speed and also overtaking in front of my home, in the middle of homes. Never a cop to be seen in those circumstances...
I, obviously, never received any answer.
So, tonight, waiting for the cell to be sealed (we’re getting into lockdown tonight), I just looked at them and reminded them that we had a great, wide, safe pedestrian and cyclist track.
The deputy tried to answer in a badass way, but the mayor, talking on the phone, told him to get on the track and shut up.
I was so upset intimately, that I was looking for a discussion...
That’s not good at all...

[Aragorn243]

It's really amazing at how fast and how easy some people just go full dictatorship on you and that the masses seem completely willing to allow them to do it. I don't know what would happen if they tried that here in the US. Probably quite different reactions between the cities and the towns and country. Cities would probably break down into two groups, those that hide and the rioters. Towns and country are going to ignore the orders, dare them to enforce them and fight back if they try. My perception anyway. Always be some sheep no matter where you're at.

[Aragorn243]

I may have to change my assessment I made yesterday. I think war may very well be coming. Large Trump crowd peacefully protesting in the capital today and as they broke up and were going home, Antifa started assaulting them all over the place. Targeting families with kids even. Antifa didn't dare approach when they were together but like animals, they know enough to divide the herd and assault the weak. People won't put up with this anarchy much longer.

[Aragorn243]

They are deliberately driving the panic again. All you hear now is the massive record number of new cases and how some hospitals are being overwhelmed. Schools are shutting down again and going to remote learning.

I had a neighbor come up to me yesterday and tell me Philadelphia had 1000 deaths over the weekend, I said I doubted that and he said he didn't know but it had to be bad because he saw them taking the body bags out of the hospitals. He also said they shut Philly down. That was about the only part he got right.

But all it is is the numbers, 1,000,000 CHILDREN have now tested positive. PANIC, PANIC, PANIC. Right in the middle of all this is how the transition to Biden will result in more deaths if it doesn't start now. He hasn't won the election yet. He is NOT the President Elect even though the media is calling him that. He may become President Elect but he is not President Elect yet.

This all smacks of more propaganda to push this election result.

Meanwhile, the truth. It has become much more difficult to find out how many people actually are dying. You would think this would be the priority. Pennsylvania, the entire state, has been on a downward trend since November 7th. In the last 7 days they reported, the high was 20 and the low which was also the last day reported was 3. How do you get 1000 out of that for one city?

[browningautorifle]

They are deliberately driving the panic again.

This all smacks of more propaganda

It has become much more difficult to find out how many

All this is the same here. Never let a good panic go to waste, sell news at all cost. It will be interesting in a few years to see what this is all actually about.

[Ovidio]

All this is the same here. Never let a good panic go to waste, sell news at all cost. It will be interesting in a few years to see what this is all actually about.

The same question I'm asking to myself in these days...

[browningautorifle]

The sad part to me is I wore the uniform for 35 years to allow these very people around me to make their own decisions, freedom of choice. Now they're knuckling under without a question or protest. Wonder what the guys that went under before us would think? It may take several years, maybe after I'm gone...but it'll come to light.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Wonder what the guys that went under before us would think?

Not very much.

[Ovidio]

The sad part to me is I wore the uniform for 35 years to allow these very people around me to make their own decisions, freedom of choice. Now they're knuckling under without a question or protest. Wonder what the guys that went under before us would think? It may take several years, maybe after I'm gone...but it'll come to light.

Although I had a very limited service period compared to yours, I understand that perfectly.
If I think of my dad, who saw the war, or my grandparents, who really lived it (and my granddad father’s side fought in both), I can’t do anything but agree. Even us, guys from the late 60ies early 70ies, we are just... different from the new generations. We had a free childhood. Something which most people can’t imagine anymore now.
Today, my great joy was my youngest daugthter when we came to her school. The kids can’t touch each other, they can’t even lend each other a pencil!!! But when we got to 50 metres from school, one of her friends ran toward her and embraced her shouting like crazy. I felt so gooooooooooooood!!!!
When another kid said that it was not allowed, i winked and she ran into the school building, happy!
There is a limit to everything!
God save the kids!