Flyby -- Thunderbirds and Blue Angels' thank you to health care workers:
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Description of Pictures: The military’s two elite aerobatic squadrons—the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels—commenced a joint flyby of the metro area today to honor healthcare workers and first responders on the frontlines of the current crisis.
I went to Tenleytown to see them. The two jet teams fly by once together and then the Blue Angels flew by again on their own, somewhat farther away this time. That was it. I figured the flyby was mostly an attempt by the president to distract us from thinking about his screw-ups in the handling of the Covid-19 crisis. People also argued that most people, who were staying at home as recommended by the medical authorities, would never see the jets. Plus the money spent on the flyby would have been better spent actually helping the healthcare and first-responder workers -- buying PPE or providing bonuses to them.
It was interesting seeing people actually coming together to watch something again although it was disturbing that I didn't see many masks in the crowd.
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FLYBY_200502_28.JPG: The Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels did a flyby over Washington DC on Saturday to honor healthcare workers and first responders on the frontlines of the current crisis. I suspect it was also an attempt to distract us from the president's continual screw-ups in the Covid-19 crisis. It was interesting seeing people actually coming together to watch something again although it was disturbing that I didn't see many masks in the crowd.
FLYBY_200502_87.JPG: I talked to this couple during the fly-over.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11.
The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year!
Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995.
Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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