I don't like seeing so many people post that they are 74, or 78, or 85. This is a photography forum, and unless someone is disabled by age in some way, age is irrelevant. When I look online for camera recommendations, they are generally grouped by price, not by the age of the user.

How can anyone tell someone who is 70 what kind of camera to buy? Will he have to get a different camera when he's 75 and then a another one at 80? I just turned 76, but that doesn't have an effect on what I buy or how I live, and I don't introduce myself to people by telling them my age. I think part of my annoyance at the mention of age is the fact that I am in that age group, and I don't like to think I have limitations in photo gear or anything else.

My son ordered a bike for me for my birthday - one I picked out. A rail trail just opened up near me, and I'll ride it there. And I'm 76!

We already have thousands, probably millions, of people going to work every day to help the rest of us keep going. They are the health care workers and the people that provide the food we put on our tables, not to mention those that keep the power plants running. The list goes on and on. Fifty years ago I was asked to put my life on the line in service to my country, and answered the call. If I was called to help out today I would answer the call again.

Too many people want to leave it to the other guy, and that is sad.
Yes, they are out there performing necessary functions, and many of us would put our lives on the line to help our country and our fellow human beings. That’s different than putting lives on the line in order that big business make more money.
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First a few facts, regarding risks. THose undr the age of 70, are at lower risk. The co-morbidities that increase risk are. Vascular disease, Lung Disease, and diabetes. Therefore not having any of those problems further rdeuces risk. As a group if you consider all those reductions of risks, the likelyhood of dying from the virus is something like .02% So, getting back to work need not all at once. Parts of thyeworking public can return to work immediatly. Anothyer part a delay, and the rest after the last delay. In other words , it need not be all at once. Think of it as a light bulb. On all at once or like 3 way bulb. One more thing to consider. Since healthy children are not in any of those high risk groups school can begin immediatly. The death rate from the panic as a result of increased opioid overdose and from suicide in depressives is on the increase as a result of the panic. So we may be entering that time where the cure is worse than the disease..

T is clearly smarter than everybody. His experts and advisors warned him of what was coming, yet he delayed implementing mitigation efforts for weeks for political purposes. Now he wants to fire Dr. F***i for speaking the t***h. Real smart... Trump's incompetence is out in the open for everyone to see. Yet, he will blame everyone else for his failings and point to his too-little-too-late efforts as proof of his greatness.

I expect to be flamed for this, but the heat will not extinguish the t***h.

A fairly insightful opinion piece by Bill O’Reilly . . .

http://www.livetradingnews.com/wake-up-america-172331.html

China’s Bio weapon, and Nancy Pelosi…

By Bill O’Reilly

My wife Angie will tell you that I study history and world events fluently every day. I have studied China for many years. To get answers I need to question, I call many I know in Washington on Capitol Hill from my tenure on 2 P**********l campaigns and P**********l talks and I ask them for straight answers to better understand what affects us as a nation.

Well, in 2016 America elected a new Sheriff: Donald J. Trump. For decades the Chinese walked all over America but the new President said “not anymore”. He strangled China’s economy to the point their economy was in its worst free fall ever. He negotiated a new trade agreement. He had President Xi by the balls.

America’s economy was on fire and unstoppable. President Xi Jingping knew he could not beat the US militarily and he knew any domesticated economic attack would fail as our economy was too strong.

He had to act, but how?

Enter the USA democrats led by Pelosi and Schiff. Impeachment.

A h**x!


Nutty and bogus, as you can tell by the very first sentence.

A distraction for our people and President. Xi Jingping and his thugs see this. They are not stupid. They have very intelligent intellectual thinkers in their government.

You must understand, the Chinese regime are truly Barbarians. Notice I did not say all Chinese. The Chinese people are a good people. I enjoy my interactions with them.

The C*******t regime has millions of its own citizens slaving in gulags simply for speaking against the government or openly practicing Christianity.

Knowing they could not attack us openly they needed to be coy, like a deceptive fox.

In my opinion, I believe the regime released a biological weapon upon the world that does not k**l everyone, but k**ls “enough,” especially the elderly and infirmed. Back in WWII Hitler thought the same way. He got rid of what he considered the useless and rejects of society.

President Trump’s task force uses models to figure things.

Xi used and uses “models” too.

China’s President figured that if he k**led a few of his own (a few hundred thousand to them would be a few out of 1.4 billion people) and spread the v***s to other nations, especially to the USA, they would “level the economic playing field” and not have fired a shot.

Losses of his own people were acceptable costs of a new war. When China’s own doctors attempted to sound the warning, they were immediately silenced. In fact one died and another has simply disappeared.

President Trump and the other allied leaders know this is what happened.

They have under reported their own deaths. President Trump knows he cannot outrightly seek retribution. His news conference recently showed me this when he balked publicly about no outright retribution over Xi’s handling of this and he immediately brought up the “trade deal”.

However, President Trump was not being weak, he too was now being coy. We know this was a biological weapon. The bat in the wet food market story is BS.

President Xi knows we know it.

President Trump also has announced he sent 2 battle groups of destroyers and other ships to sea to fight drugs and rogue actors like Iran should they try anything.

I say he did this to show President Xi he knows what has t***spired, as we have the greatest intelligence assets and that the Chinese should rethink further action.

Politics is premier.

We cannot overtly attack China for what they have done as we would also suffer greatly. We all know this.

China has temporarily achieved its goal.

America was literally consumed by the phoney impeachment of President Trump brought on by the ultra-left Democrats supported by democrat rank and file and 1 elite Republican, Mitt Romney and Xi Jingping saw an opening. He took it.

President Xi did what Trump usually does. He walked onto the world stage and threw a grenade into the “room” and left. It exploded in the form of this worldwide p******c. It brought the USA and the rest of the world to its knees and leveled the economic playing field.

Our economy is now near depression.

President Xi did not fire a shot. Now President Trump needed to up his game and putting our Naval ships to sea was his next move. He said he is a “Wartime” President, and he is.

But now on not 1 but 2 fronts: the c****av***s and the Chinese c*******ts.

While the Saudis and Russians are screwing with Crude Oil prices they are not overtly doing what this p******c is doing.

The drug smuggling story for dispatching the Naval Force is BS and the world knows it. I am of the opinion President Trump can bring us back from this catastrophe but with a changed playing field.

President Trump is a genius at game theory and financial matters. And he has become a champ at international politics too in a short time.

I am sure he can once again lead the economy to even stronger strength and greatness the it was. He can do it quickly I am sure of it. He has proved it.

Xi Jingping needs to be sent a message loud and clear, “NEVER AGAIN.”

America must bring all of our critical manufacturing back from China beginning with our medicines they were recently threatening to withhold. We can do it immediately.

Again, another reason for Trump putting to sea such a sizable Naval Force, he sent President Xi a clear message.

We must ride out the next few weeks. Then we and the world pick up the pieces and move ahead.

The Democrats who have given President Xi this opening must pay a heavy price in November as they truly have cost and continue to cost America precious lives by the phony scandals.

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) continues to help the Chinese by her daily shameless attacks upon the President and meddling in stimulus packages as she did this last weekend and continues to do.

Her statements are appalling and the lowest of low. I did not think she could go any lower. What a disgrace she is to our nation.

But, putting Nancy Pelosi aside, make no mistake, China must and will be taught a lesson the likes they have never seen before and President Trump is the man to pull the trigger.

We the People must teach the Democrats the same lesson at the polls. They are radical and are the enemy of a free America, I am certain of it.

The entire democratic party of our forefathers is dead.

Remember people, President Trump warn us of the C****av***s in his State of the Union Speech, he spoke of it, he said he was on top of it.

Recall, that after he spoke, Speaker Pelosi ripped up the speech calling President Trump’s words “a manifesto of lies”.

She disgraced the country and all of our fellow honored citizens present in the House Chamber.

Well, she now has American blood on her hands. She is directly and morally responsible for the needless deaths as well as the Chinese, she and Adam Schiff (D-CA) alike.

The left and democrats laughed as she tore up President Trump’s SOTU speech. And, as they laughed the disease he just spoke of in that address came to our shores.

Republicans and Democrats alike are now sick and dying.

Your family members and mine.

Our grandparents and middle aged citizens alike. Bodies are being loaded in trucks with forklifts in Brooklyn outside of hospitals. Lots of people are not safe.

Our liberty has been suspended. As we bury our dead without proper funerals from this calamity let us drive nails into the coffin of the Democrat Party as well in November.

It is time People.

Stand up for your rights and your country!

Our Liberty and survival is at stake!

I am praying for God’s blessing on our nation. God gave us the ability to think for ourselves and it it time we placed blame for all this death where it belongs: on the doorsteps of Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Xi Jingping directly.

Wake Up America, WAKE UP!

Dennis