OTIS Drops Covid?

I didn't plan on writing tonight, but I have been accumulating steam to make some serious and almost certainly controversial assertions.  I have been mouthing off about AC traction since its inception in 1990.  It was not until a few year later I discovered what it was, and that was by accident.  Diligently I was using OSU's Sound Synthesis Lab to research the "Taos Hum."  Six months later I had found the source of this phenomenon, but no nobody was interested.  It was more fun to speculate on its source.  Many theories existed, and they ran the gamut from logical to absurd.  The interest in the source of the hum fueled the fire, but it didn't solve the problem for the residents of Taos.  They were miserable, and some were sleeping in pump houses, tool sheds, and hammocks in the garden.  Alas they could not escape the veritable low churning sound and vibration of this "hum."  That is because it was being transmitted through the earth from a tunnel engineered by the GE corporation for a local Molybdenum mine.  A government study said it was mining equipment causing this disturbance, but that was neither sexy nor commercial.  With all of the hoopla quietly the hum was quelled when the company declared bankruptcy from repeated environmental violation fines.  China is the go to source for many natural resources including minerals.  The Taos company could not compete, and the mine and refinery shut down.  Several moly mines still exist in Colorado near Columbine.  The technology that actually produces the hum sound and vibration is complex and simple.  It took until 1990 for man to conquer the alternation current motor, and it was with the use of the personal computer.  Semi conductors, namely an insulated gate bipolar transistor, in conjunction with a software program run on a Hewlett Packard computer allows the operator to slow the motor down by changing the frequency of the alternation current.  I have been writing about this for twenty years, and no one cares.  The more operative concern is when this technology is applied to traction in the railroad industry.  Small AC drives on a conveyor belt in a tunnel in new Mexico are one thing, but they disturbed a great number of honest, law abiding, hard working citizens.  These people, as is the pattern in America, were deemed the sacrifice for "the greater good" which really was corporate profit for a mineral company.  Donald Trump is a major proponent of this philosophy, and his methodology is to pay people off to not complain.  When large corporations pollute the local environment at their plants by tainting water or fouling the air, he feels a monetary payoff should be enough to stop their vocal complaints.  It is of no consequence they do not possess the means to move or pay for health care for their resulting maladies.  This is the America in which we live, but not always has it been this way.  Major changes have transpired in America, and I have been thinking about them.  The first major assertion I have is the socioeconomic system of Capitalism has died.  I was trying to pinpoint its year of demise, and the most logical date is 2008.  It was the "Financial Crisis" of 2008, "The Big Short."  What was this phenomenon?  It began with Bill Clinton running for President with a campaign slogan consisting of, "Everyone should be able to own their on home."  Recently as we saw with Donald Trump, when a United States President feels strongly about something, the country climbs aboard.  More specifically core components of our economy, certain businesses, are liberated to exploit the President's desires.  In Bill Clinton's case, financial institutions abandoned traditional policies such as vetting of financial capability, and began handing out high interest loans with little culpability.  The real estate industry desperately wanted to sell these homes to Americans, all of them.  Despite whether they financially were capable of paying their mortgages each month for the duration of the loan, savings and loans and banks dolled out mortgages to anyone and everyone.  While realtors collected their fees, and financial institutions earned interest on their loans, Wall Street flourished with the Hedge Fund.  They pooled these high risk mortgages and sold them at great profit.  This is how recent wealth was accumulated on Wall Street, and it was extremely risky.  It was get rich quick.  Without the knowledge of potential home owners, these mortgages were written so that monthly payments down the line would escalate.  A few savvy Wall Street investors read these mortgages, and they were the only people that knew of the oncoming financial melt down.  In turn they created and invested in new financial instruments actually that bet on this collapse.  They bet against America.  The consequences of this bet predicated that Washington, DC bail out the rogue gamblers.  They lobbied George W. Bush, who created the Troubled Assets Relief Plan (TARP).  The federal government paid off these renegade Wall Street investments, because Hank Paulson declared we would have a second great depression, and we could not let Capitalism collapse.  Consequently the large corporations, instead of shoring up their own lost capital, paid great bonuses to their CEO's.  Not unlike much federal relief money, it was squandered.  My feeling is Bush should have let Wall Street sink.  From this time on most of America's money disappeared into overseas banks shielded from the IRS.  This practice has continued, and most of the huge corporate conglomerates continue to pay no federal income tax.  This cannot occur for Capitalism to function.  The combination of reckless investing and outsourcing manufacturing to much cheaper foreign labor markets has killed our American socioeconomic system.  With the flourishing of the World Wide Web and E Commerce, social media, and digital streaming of audio and video, America never will be the same.  Covid struck its own possibly more powerful blow to America's traditional work methodology.  Because manufacturing will not return to American soil in terms of tangible plants and product produced, and because technology (or more specifically internet) has become the vehicle of choice for commerce, for Capitalism to live in America the system must be rethought and revamped.  The Democrats actually have tried to do this, and Joe Biden's green energy plan isn't a bad idea.  What it is though, like Bernie Sander's free health care and college with a paid wage, is radical.  It is to abrupt a change for America on which to sign.  The transition of Capitalism has to be more subtle and gradual.  Suggesting the entire private health care system must sacrifice their profits for the greater good is a losing proposition.  Many people have grown rich from health care, and they are not about to forfeit these lifestyles.  What is most important is how to provide the middle class jobs America needs.  Not flipping burgers or stocking shelves at Walmart, Americans want and deserve better jobs, middle class jobs that once became important in the American Dream.  My second assertion is most unpalatable, and it is the grim realization that Covid was no accident.  It was a designed, engineered, and manufactured pathogen purposely unleashed on the world to kill off those draining the entitlement system in America.  Trump reiterated this concept time and time again.  He wanted to get rid of annoying immigrants, needy geriatrics, and incarcerated criminals.  He was very verbal about this desire.  More disturbingly this deluge of deadly pathogen still is being released.  The method of dispersion necessarily is by aircraft.  Fort Detrick, the military's base for biological defense in Maryland, is no stranger to biological weapons.  Simply they changed the name of the facility to "defense" rather than "weapons" to ease and cloak their palatability.  If one reflects on such things during the Viet Nam era with Agent Orange or the simple concept of crop dusting, it easily is understood that C130H aircraft used for aerial refueling easily could be modified to contain and release any airborne pathogen.  Paradoxically the military's aerial maneuvers have continued unabated during the Covid outbreak.  It is easy to disguise any aberrant flight with routine activity.  This is what the military do when we are not at war.  They train.  I would suggest finding out exactly what OTIS is up to.