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LETTERS, continues frdrn page A-5
Well done, people
Editor, the Journal,
I know very well how conservative
Mason County is, so I’m writing to tell
you howimpressed I was at Safeway
in Belfair. Every single person in the
store was wearing a mask. President
Donald Trump doesn’t believe in
masks. Well done, Mason County!
Greg Dallum
Shelton
High vibrations
Editor, the Journal,
Where have our rights to life, liber-
ty and the pursuit of happiness gone?
Why have our religious freedoms been
suppressed?
My religious belief: the coronavirus
and a human being are both organ-
isms with magnetic Vibrational fre—
quencies. They have both been stud-
ied, measured and photographed. The
coronavirus has a vibrational frequen-
. GUEST
cy between 5.5 hertz and 14.5 hertz.
The human being is the organism
that has a wide range of emotions.
Emotions are also organisms with
magnetic Vibrational frequencies.
These emotions have been studied,
measured and photographed. Love
and hope at 500 hertz, joy and hap--
piness at 540, and gratitude at 600
hertz. How does this fight a‘virus?
Science can determine the force
needed to push a man in a wind
tunnel down the tunnel. Why have
we not been told how much hertz is
needed to push a virus away? Is 500
hertz, 540 hertz or even 600 hertz
enough to push a virus away? This is
my religious belief. If we live in fear,
frustration, insecurity, anxiety, anger
or rage, we will in fact be using mag-
netism to draw the virus in because
these are low vibrational frequencies.
If we live in love and hope, joy and
happiness, and gratitude then we will
in fact have a better chance to push
the virus away then a vaccination
because these are high-vibrational
frequencies.
Keeping us in lockdown keeps us in
low vibrational frequencies so when
you release us from the lockdown the
virus will always find a home to bond
to us. You will never release us from
lockdown or give us our constitutional
rights back based on these beliefs.
This information can be proven by
a physicist, not by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention or
the pharmaceutical companies. They
want us left in lockdown.
Ted Kyllenon
Shelton
Salary raises
at Timberland
Editor, the Journal,
Subject: TRL administrative sala-
ries
Did you know that your Timber-
land Regional Library property tax
dollars provided huge salary increases
to a few TRL administrators? Whop-
ping increases in fact.Comparing 2019
to 2020, one of these administrators
saw an increase of 23%, bringing her
salary from $84,975 to $104,509.
In just one year, we should all be
so lucky to have a job during a raging
pandemic and get a 23% pay raise. By
comparison, those lucky enough to be
a Social Security recipient received
a 1.3% increase for 2020. Worse still.
some of our neighbors are looking at
unemployment or reduced hours and
reduced paychecks.
Don’t be surprised that you didn’t
know about this generosity. The
Mason, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Pacific
and Thurston county commissioners
appoint the TRL Board of Trustees. '
This seven-member board was made
aware nine months after the execu-
tive director awarded the unbudgeted
salary increases that will continue to
grow with longevity and cost-of-living
increases.
Why'does this matter?
If you are a TRL patron expect
a long-term impact to core services
(like new books, fewer open hours
and libraries being closed), there will
be consequences to TRL’s unbridled
generosity for salaries and benefits. If
you are a property tax payer, don’t be
surprised to see a levy lid lift in the
not so distant future.
.Brenda Hirschi
Shelton
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turers have been clobbered by the coronavirus
planes’ bellies.
half of the world’s air freight is flown in passenger
which is rapidly expanding its fleet and plans to
have 80 freighters flying by June 2021. Analysts
It’s no secret that airlines and airplane manufac-
pandemic. Particularly hard hit are interna-
tional flights traditionally flown by jumbo
jets. Borders are closed and people aren’t
flying.
There is a small silver-lining. Just as
restaurants started take-out service to sur-
vive, airlines are filling planes with freight.
US. airlines are reeling from the pan—
demic and have lost more than $20 billion
combined in the last two quarters. Even
with the surge in air freight rates, cargo
revenues aren’t enough to make up for those By DON
BRUNELL
losses on their own, especially with capacity
still limited, CNBC’s Leslie Joseph reported
earlier this month. “However, it has become
a more important revenue source with many pas-
sengers still forgoing flights.”
Before the coronavirus, decades of a long aviation
boom spawned a network of nearly 50,000 air routes
that traversed the world. In less than a year, the
pandemic wiped almost a third of them off the map,
according to Angus Whitley of Traveller.com.
In late January, 47,756 operational routes criss-
crossed the world, more than half of them in the
United States, Western Europe and Northeast Asia,
according to OAG Aviation Worldwide. By Nov. 2,
there were just 33,416 routes on global schedules.
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cargo business in September, the air travel
recovery from the coronavirus pandemic
is stalling, Eric Kulisch, Air Cargo editor,
wrote. If airplanes are grounded, so it car-
go. It is that simple.
Air cargo sector has retained 92% of its
business while almost 90% of passenger de-
mand has evaporated because of travel fears
and government restrictions. Further im-
provement in cargo volumes could be capped
by the ongoing shortage in passenger
flights, even though the sliver of good news
is Cathay Pacific is resuming 777 flights
between Hong Kong and New Zealand start-
ing on Nov. 27. '
Many carriers started taking their jumbo jets out
of service before the pandemic. They parked 747
and A-3803.
That loss of cargo capacity opened up business for
companies such as Cargolux, the Luxembourg-based
cargo operator, which has 30 747s. Cargolux is hop—
ing that Boeing will make a freighter version of its
777X the new composite wing aircraft.
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. just an-
nounced third-quarter 2020 net income of $74.1
million, a stark contrast to United ($2.4 billion) and
Delta ($2.1 billion) losses for the secOnd quarter.
Atlas leases 737 and 767 aircraft to Amazon
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believe Amazon’s air fleet, combined with its mas-
sive network of truck trailers and vans, could one
day position it to rival UPS and FedEx.
Amazon’s $1.5 billion air hub in northern Ken-
tucky could help give it an edge. The hub, scheduled
to open in 2021, is designed to have capacity for 100
Amazon-branded planes and handle an estimated
200 flights per day. CNBC’s Annie Palmer reported.
While some analysts project it may take up to
five years before passenger flights return to pre-
pandemic levels, air freight is steadily growing in
importance.
Korean Air forecasts high demand casted for
traditional air cargo such as semiconductors, auto
parts and e—commerce supplies and also believes it
will benefit from urgent medical supply demands
associated with COVID—19. Its executives believe
the lack of trans-oceanic container shipsgopens even
more opportunities for air carriers.
Hopefully, the increase in air freight will led to
new airplane orders for Boeing. '
That would be a shot of good news for Washington.
I Don C. Brunell is a business analyst, writer
and columnist. He recently retired as president of
the Association of WashingtOn Business, the state’s
oldest and largest business organization, and now
lives in Vancouver. He can be contacted at
theBrunells@msn.com.
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