Loud jets will scream overhead to salute healthcare workers early this afternoon

You are mad. This idea of a flyover serves as displeasure in a matter of your personal opinion. Your feeling matters to us all. I shall call to have the flyover cancelled.

I've seen comments/questions like yours before and the justification in response is that the pilots require a certain number of hours of flight time anyway so all they are doing is shifting these "training" missions to include a flight path over the city. I'm not saying it's worth it, but that's the response I've seen in the past to claim that it isn't really any extra spending.

I totally agree with all of the previous posts - this administration has (and continues to) worked to do nothing more than gaslight the American public. The plan here is clear, shift all blame to State and Local government and just keep telling the same lie over and over, that the Federal response was “perfect”.

Just to note, today’s flyover is being tacked on to already scheduled training flights. While it’s an unnecessary stunt, at least it’s not huge of a waste of taxpayer funds as the Blue Angels doing flyovers of Manhattan.

Still, how a jet burning $25k worth of fuel an hour is a tribute to front line health care workers who still lack sufficient PPE is lost on me. Where are the tests?

.... about loud ominous sounds overhead, jet fuel exhaust and the possibility of another crash like the one in 2014?

because they were already in the habit of buying flowers daily, they just routed some to you this time.

only much more sad and stupid.

Flyovers and parades may make people on the front lines feel slightly better, momentarily, but they do nothing to actually help those people do their jobs, or to protect them. If the effort and resources spent on these feel-good displays were instead spent on things that do help and protect them, I'm sure no one would complain.

It's like thanking me for my service. It does nothing for me; but I guess it makes the speaker feel better.

I have mixed feelings about these sorts of displays, so I partially agree with you. That said, if the official messaging is to be believed, today's flyover didn't cost us taxpayers anything more than the what we're already spending on our military's training exercises.

My girlfriend and I walked down to the Allston footbridge over the Pike to watch it, and we were not alone. We were all practicing social distancing, though. The only people who were not separated were obviously families and close acquaintances, like my gf and I. There was plenty of spacing between the groups, plus we were outside with a nice breeze, and everyone I saw was wearing a mask. There were a few kids trying to get passing trucks to honk their horns, and they were elated every time a trucker obliged. Overall, it was a safe and pleasant experience. Nice to get out of the house for a change.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Please note that it's the proponents of these displays who claim that it's doing several things at once: "honoring" "first responders" or health care workers or somebody, giving people a show, giving pilots flight time, etc. Not exactly "just a cigar" then?

But they train in places like Yankee 1 & 2 MOAs (Military Operating Areas) over New Hampshire and Vermont, or Panamint Valley MOA near Death Valley National Park. These training areas are far away from heavily populated areas for very good reasons, reasons like noise, maneuverability, less of a risk of collateral damage when things go wrong. Personally, I'm indifferent to it, but I can't think of any legitimate reason that flyovers like this are the least bit helpful. As far as it being a "feel good event", I find it extremely doubtful that any overwhelmed hospital staff are going to run outside to try to see this, never mind give a rat's ass that it's happening at all.

On Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

I took my lunch break to check it out.
it was nice to be out watching for a few
they literally turned around right before us
it was a nice diversion.

So, you liked it, so no one else is allowed to not like it?