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Very well said. There are a lot of steps and very true that there's no need for personal information to be handed over to the gov't. It's none of their business if someone owns a firearm and thankfully now none of their business if people are carrying them. Loads of unwarranted burdens and red tape and big brother tactics.

Agree. The 2A is ours and we shouldn't have to jump through hoops to carry a firearm in a vehicle even for simple things like trips to the range or a friends house to go shooting, etc.

One of three that get flown. Both brothers, my father and several uncles all served our country and were proud to do so.

Love the truck and support the cause!

Kinda new to the group and glad to be here. Many thanks to Ben and others who ported over the CR Forums. Hopefully the fun and contacts continue. I was a member there from 2006 to it's close but been in contact with many from the forum well before that dating back to the mid to late 90's. I've contacted Ben about possible sponsorship here as I did there. My side hobby and gig to help my kids learn to connect and run things is a detailing service. Started years ago with my son, who has since moved on to college, but in 2022 my daughter stepped in and as she turns 16 now is helping out and learning the ropes! Proud Papa checking in here. I'll provide more information once sponsorship is set up but until then, here are our personal vehicles. Sons in college so nothing fast fun or expensive as priorties shift but they are what we have in the stable. Hit me up with any questions or needs from interior steam extraction to ceramic coatings. Happy to help. My Daughter has a 2010 CR-V with just under 70k miles My Son rocks a reliable 2014 Corolla with 98k miles Soccer mom is in a 2018 CX-5 with 53k miles Dad is sporting a 2019 Accord Touring 2.0 that just broke 28k miles -tim

Looks awesome. Great balance of performance, EV life and price.

There's definitely going to be a little rock in pit of my stomach once it shuts off and I get the no site found 401 error

Perhaps my last post on CR Thanks for all the good times!

Well said. I didn't join the forum until 2006 and since have met hundreds of people from this forum personally, including most here in this thread, and can honestly say nearly every single one has been super cool and fun to banter with online and in person. It will be missed. I was late to the FB Crowd too but even that isn't the same. It is good to have though. Been a great ride, pun intended, and let's hope to keep in touch as we've all some good times for sure. Hopefully those good times will continue at CC&C too.

The end of an era. Kinda like moving away from Listserv back in the day.... Chris, will sponsorships, etc. for vendors still be available and expected? I fully support kicking in some money to keep things rolling there. Just let me know.

Sad news indeed. Loved his F-Body and remember it from my days of Pontiac Love.

You still like to weave in your own opinions and BS. You see Kerry, it's not hard to see you do that with consistency with everyone. You are a contrarian at heart which is why you enjoy doing what you do. If you want to go around thinking people who are fat aren't unhealthy and aren't impacting their own chances of severe illness or death from Covid and that it's all simply a DNA thing then you're the one taking a gamble on falsities. Hey, being an outlier is part of the luck I mentioned above right?

I haven't followed every post but I don't see it being made binary dead vs alive. If it were, the alive part would be like 99.5+ %. I see most people here realizing the grey area is where we are, have been and will be for quite a while. Haven't seen any indications we're about to eliminate a Corona Virus from the earth so let's no act like we're on tract to do that. It can be the goal but let's not place a false goal post in place only to move it yet again. We're already in year 3 of 2 weeks to flatten the curve. In terms of side effects, the longer term things are not new. Today's "long hualers has been around and known as “post-viral syndrome,” since the days of the Spanish Flu. It's not new or unique to covid. viral pneumonia and TB have similar after effects. Chronic disease present long term serious lingering issues too. I dont' see people dismissing any of them, just learning to live with the risks and no longer living in fear. Meh, reasons are like opinions and assholes, we all have them. Can't worry about who does what or why. Again, had the powers that be on all sides been upfront, clear transparent and HONEST they might have built up some solid credibility and trust and not driven so many to the extremes. Mandates, lies and bullshit spread far and wide isn't helping so they need to stop that crap. It's not about being physically fit, it's about overall being healthy. There are a lot of physically fit people who aren't healthy. Leading chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic pulmonary disease, and diabetes are among the top ones, and are driven mainly by lifestyle and the top two of those kill more in one year in the US than covid has in to date. Some believe genetics plays a role in loading the gun but what we eat, expose ourselves and bodies to tends to pull the trigger. It's past-time for people to get healthy and as I've noted, if they choose not to then, that's on them. Yep, again, no direct line and never will be. Kids die of cancer and healthy athletes have their hearts fail too. Not everything is clear-cut or binary as you note. Risks, odds, chances and luck fill our lives. We're just at a point after 2+ years that many of us are moving with our lives. Life is short as it is and I'm personally not going to waste any more of my life in fear. Good luck. We're not going to slow the spread and 2 years is proving that. Many would argue we're doing more harm than good too. We have therapeutics, vaxes and plenty to run with to help. Time to leverage them and learn to live with our newly introduced risk. Thanks China. I agree that the burden on hospitals can be bad. Let's work to ensure there are no unnecessary ones being put on them but then we've seen some mandates do just that......all in the name of science right? Best thing every single person can do is to be smart, get healthy and heal the divide. Continuing to argue and threaten isn't going to do that nor build trust in anyone that calls themselves a leader.

My plans are to hopefully get out and DRIVE! Company "said" January 18th will mark the day but with the state of the world and being California based, I may just have another low mile year. Let's hope not!

Case in Franklin County (Columbus) are up way more than that. Most of the summer was fine. August we ended with just over 322 cases per day. September was a blip up to 540 per then October a drop of about 41% to 306 per day. From there it's been climbing. Up 30% in Nov to 400 per day and December a whopping 190% over Nov. to over 1,100 cases per day. That said, the number of people hospitalized has had the opposite. It's dropped 3 months in a row from and the rate of hospitalizations per-case has also dropped. (Sept-Oct were flat at about 150, Nov 135 and December only 119 in all of Franklin County. In fact, December marks a record low at only .3% of cases resulting in a hospitalization (again, a Franklin County Stat) although the entire state finished Dec. at 2.4%, also a record low for Ohio. So they say and while I believe them, the ODH needs to start publishing vax status on their .csv file released daily. They have told me they aren't going to but won't say why. Ugh. That doesn't speak to transparency or trust. That aside, the largest groups impacted grow based on age. Both in terms of hospitalizations and most clearly deaths. Great news is the vaxes clearly show effectiveness in the 70-79 and 80+ groups. Their rate of death per cases early in 2020 was upwards of 50%. Then it made a crash to low double digits this year and in December it's mid 5% or so. Lots of reasons involved but no doubt the vax too. The elderly still make up 75-82% of all deaths though. Not surprise and nothing new here. Meh....point still stands, if you're overweight, it's on that individual and they are at greater risk and the vaxes aren't as effective on them. Society as a whole needs to get in shape. I'll argue it's more the unhealthy having a negative impact on the systems today than the unvaxed or non mask wearing, etc. 3:1 margins in fact.