Manufacturing Shock Absorbers in 1976 - USA!

One of the manufacturing businesses I worked at in the 70's made Shock Absorbers for aftermarket major customer.

Shocks were shit in the 60s/70s, as was steering. We had 2 automated lines that created the hydraulic piston tube for your typical shock The production line was custom built by Swanson-Erie carousel of multi-stages requiring human input. And - don't fuck up because it creates a problem downstream. Flow is key, personal defects be damned. 20,000/day x 2 lines x 2 shifts - 80.000 per day. But, what if you find a latent, serious defect? Lots of scarp. Weeks worth.

My small voice on US manufacturing and thinking in the 70's.

Testing is the key.

All Americans need to sign up. Do the necessary testing that helps figure this virus out. Get tested.

If not sick / not infected...why?
If not sick/infected......whats your tracking profile?
If sick/infected......what's your tracking profile?

The faster we provide individual data, the better we can target response.

Trump pressers 2 weeks from now.

How's he gonna do 'em?

So what changes do you think we will see

in our social/economic/political/religious transactions going forward?

Economic:

I see Big Business opportunity will be in product distribution and factorization/consolidation of our food delivery system. Same with fastfood. All trends indicate even less future jobs as these consolidations happen. Amazon will be the capitalistic model/version of a command and control system. The cost to enter the free market ring will be prohibitive.

Economic/political:

A new energy economy that employs millions in rebuilding our power infrastructure. Labor intensive jobs in sales/marketing/installation and repair to build decentralized energy delivery via solar/wind/battery technology. Democrats should be pushing hard on this - give people a vision of a better future. True energy independence. Let Republicans maintain their dead-end vision of giving Big Oil whatever it wants. Bonus - A major reduction of military funds needed to keep the flow of oil to world markets. Let Big Oil pay for their security plan and cost it into the price of oil.

New Immigration policies:.

We are going to need a lot of people to deal with climate change, particularly on the costs and major waterways.

Religion:

Continued decline in the Evangelistic Business model. An increase of people looking for more community based churches that are non-dogmatic and humanistic in their religious philosophy.
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So I watched a 1976 replay of a Celtics-Pheonix championship game last night.

It was pretty fascinating. The old Boston Garden was rocking. A 3 OT nail-biter. Pre-Larry Bird/McHale/Parrish. Jojo White was on fire and totally exhausted at the end. Dave Cowens was a monster on the boards and in the paint. No 3 point line. The late John Havlicheck playing his stellar game, near the end of his career. Tommy Heisohn was coaching the Cetics back then. Paul Westphal and Dick van Arsdaie playing an incredible game for the Suns. They somehow made it to the Championship round with the worst record. Talk about peaking at the right time!

I had forgotten that Charlie Scott played for the Celtics. Could he move the ball up-court! His vertical jumping was really impressive. Paul Silas was such a fantastic offensive rebounder.

I was a year out of college and my dad passed away later that fall, so it was really a great remembrance of times passed.

Final note, the short shorts both teams were wearing....lol.

Should the Blue States band together to fight CV-19?

It appears that the fed government is abandoning it's role to coordinate a fed response to this pandemic.

Would it make sense for NY/NE/Virginia mid Coast/West Coast all Blue States to marshal their resources and coordinate targeted responses?

I would certainly also consider shutting down travel between blue states that are fighting this pandemic actively and seal off adjacent states that are run by Republicans who haven't bothered to take this seriously.

What's on your musical stream?

Its the end of another week of real-life Trump hellscape. All by myself, can't get more self-isolated then I am, I think.

So I'm finished with emptying my late, ex-wife's BR. A perfect chose for another gloomy weather day.

So, I'm having a couple of Sammy Adams and listening to the Dead's Cornell University, 1977 show.

Here's a link to 5 Dead shows, that this author links to -. at least 1 in every decade from the 60's through the 90's.

https://wxrt.radio.com/blogs/marty-rosenbaum/5-of-the-best-grateful-dead-shows-of-all-time

Call the refrigeration containers what they are - the Trump Hearse. nt

Given the events of the last couple of weeks,

the next couple of months are going to be something that this country is not prepared for. At all.

The acceleration of victims and deaths along with an imploding economy makes it impossible to game out how this ends.

Cleaned out my garage yesterday.

And I found a half-dozen masks. The Home Depot kind you find in the store's woodworking department.

I suppose these are nowhere need N95, but may be somewhat protective? I want to give a couple of them to my 2 kids. This is getting mighty surreal, mighty fast.