Why do you presume to speak with such certainty about which plan to repair the plane would be faster? Or about how skilled labor is distributed across the airports of the United States? The system is complex and fairly well thought out but mistakes will happen from time to time. The issue is not really about whether…

So, I have not seen anyone else reference this, but to me the coming winter seems to parallel the Little Ice Age (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ic…) pretty closely. And the recurrence of “long winters” occurs on roughly 1,500 year cycles in our world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_even…), which also makes…