R.I.P. Chuck Yeager, A Model American

Chuck Yeager, First to Break Sound Barrier, Dies at 97 | Military.com

The inspiration for Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff and the subsequent movie, he said, “You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.” 

Fauci and Co. could use a little of The Right Stuff.

So what is “the necessary job?” Controlling the virus, some might say.

Poppycock.

The necessary job is keeping the country strong.
The necessary job is keeping people employed in their businesses, and the jobs within those businesses, to support their families.
The necessary job is ensuring the sanctity of our Constitution and our form of government.
The necessary job is to keep people safe in their homes and on their streets.
The necessary job is growing our children into full, learned, balanced adults.

The necessary job is to live The American Way to earn to The American Dream. To remember how we became the great, free land that we are and not lose that. To dance with what brung ya.

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Medical people are by nature risk averse. It’s a good trait to have when performing research and saving lives. It’s not a philosophy for running a free country. People like that aren’t happy until risk approaches zero.

In real life, risk is never zero. Chuck Yeager worked with scientists daily. He certainly asked questions and made suggestions to ensure the best available risk mitigation in the prototype planes he tested. It was life and death for him. But excessive risk concern hinders thinking, creativity, and performance. As a team, their objective was speed - speed as a measure of technological and military advantage in the interests of national defense and accomplishment. A noble Cause, with a capital C.