PCN High Life: Mark's Remarks

High Life Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adw772km7PQ&ob=av2e

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Dear PCN (of over 2600 subscribers),

I hope this past Easter / Passover season was a great one: Despite that this was probably the most unique holy season you have ever experienced, I hope it was really a meaningful one. There are no special days like these, and besides coinciding with the Spring renewal within our natural scene, this time represents hope, life and power. Hoping this past Easter was a very happy one for all the PCN!

Half way through “30 Days to Slow the Spread”

Well, we are about half way through the “2^nd” stay at home order and on day 31 of the American shutdown, so I was wondering: How are you doing? To be honest I am going a little stir crazy. I finished almost all of my ‘honey do’ list and looking for jobs to do. What are you doing to pass the time? What are your thoughts about the whole shutdown? Share your thoughts about the 4 time reduced model predictions of total fatalities? What do you think about the sacrifice/harm to our economic engine to fight this pandemic? All opinions are fair and all will be shared if you send ‘em in.

Pandemic Personal “Musings” RETRACTION:

Ok, I’ll think twice about sharing my musings if there will ever even be a next time.

I WAS WRONG……TOO OPTIMISTIC…….about the therapeutics changing the outcome to a mild pandemic. It now looks like fatalities will be under but close to the losses from the flu in the last season. That is a significant event! AND ECONOMICALLY THIS THING IS KICKING OUR BUTTS!

First, I hope you are all well and safe from any illness including Sars_Cov_2 as referred to by the medical community. If you were wondering, Barb and I are doing fine, and trying to keep busy with jobs around the house.

The numbers that early on had been bantered around as a morbidity outcome were more than sobering. Fortunately, it looks like those numbers will not materialize. I know, I will keep my optimism to myself, even though the majority agree with it our most vociferous minoritywithin our group, object. Despite any of our personal opinions and thoughts, we will all see some amazing effects results from therapeutics that have helped turned down the curve in state after state.

While we are at near “full” mitigation, there are many good signs to be happy about, we still have a rough few weeks remaining. Stay safe you all and God Bless.

One Group to Thank in These Tough Days

My ode and thanks to farmers who feed America:

https://www.facebook.com/mark.sztanyo/posts/10223058138981725?comment_id=10223059463094827&notif_id=1586393524064534&notif_t=feed_comment

Tax Day Shift:

Yes, this High Life is coming to you on the traditional April 15^th Tax Day but as you all know it has been moved to July 15^th. Yeah!

PCN subscribers:

I certainly do not need to tell you that since we formed the PCN that we have lost a lot of good people of whom many were subscribers. 1554, is the number of those whose death notice has been archived on the PCN Flight West page, as of this post. That is a lot of very very fine people that we have lost. Our goal is to notify our group and provide a lasting tribute in honor of their life at PCN Flight West.

Well, with that said, some of you may wonder how our level of subscriptions has been impacted. In a very real sense the numbers of subscribers, 2670, has remained virtually the same as it was shortly after the merge forming the PCN of my old Retired Slug Network and David Robert’s list back in 2009.

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New PCN subscriber Sign Up:

As you most of you know our PCN is a private subscribed to online community. We maintain a list of that virtually eliminates spammers or other online undesirables from joining with a simple sign up procedure, so the applicant can be screened. I am very happy with how this has worked as we can be assured that everyone on the 2670 member list is legit.

If you know of a pilot who wishes to join our community and receive our notices they can easily and painlessly become a subscriber for FREE by simply filling out the SIGN UP form. If a current member vouches for a friend and simply sends in their former Delta position and email, I have always considered this an appropriate vetting and added them directly to the list.

Thanks for helping the PCN remain the largest retired Delta pilot online community and for helping keep our mailing list made up of all legit subscribers.

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PCN sends out the High Life in 2 ways via a Blog page and a PDF file. But the PCN also has a website with helpful information archived. Check out some of the elements of the PCN Website like:

Home page: http://pcn.homestead.com/home01.html

About us: http://pcn.homestead.com/About.html

Retiree benefit page: http://pcn.homestead.com/RetPilot.html

Survivor Info page: http://pcn.homestead.com/DLSurv.html

Links page: http://pcn.homestead.com/Links.html

Pilot Authors: http://pcn.homestead.com/Authors.html