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Dem2

(8,178 posts)
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 12:20 PM Dec 2020

Ugh, we just hit 300,000 deaths, or 100 9/11's

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

It is insane that people are attempting to downplay this.

We lost our newly elected (Republican) Speaker of the NH House this week.

New Hampshire's GOP governor blasts anti-maskers after House speaker dies of covid-19: 'Don't act like a bunch of children'.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/11/dick-hinch-dead-speaker-covid/
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Ugh, we just hit 300,000 deaths, or 100 9/11's (Original Post) Dem2 Dec 2020 OP
K&R, but if 4 people die from an attack its time to have 11 different investigations related to it uponit7771 Dec 2020 #1
100 x 3,000 = 300,000 Make7 Dec 2020 #2
Ooops Dem2 Dec 2020 #6
Remember those are only the ones they have counted rurallib Dec 2020 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author rurallib Dec 2020 #4
I would like to see President Biden immediately organize DeeNice Dec 2020 #5
Heckuva job, Trumpy. Heckuva job. Initech Dec 2020 #7
K&R Klaralven Dec 2020 #8
I can't even ... FakeNoose Dec 2020 #9

uponit7771

(93,072 posts)
1. K&R, but if 4 people die from an attack its time to have 11 different investigations related to it
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 12:22 PM
Dec 2020

... and for no convictions or even slaps on the hand.

This is horrible, the republican party as a whole in DC is a dark force

rurallib

(63,898 posts)
3. Remember those are only the ones they have counted
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 12:26 PM
Dec 2020

probably at least another 100,000 more that weren't counted.

Merry Christmas from your local Republican Party.

Response to Dem2 (Original post)

DeeNice

(579 posts)
5. I would like to see President Biden immediately organize
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 12:43 PM
Dec 2020

a National Day of Observance for the victims of COVID-19. Including living, deceased, unemployed, driven out of business etc.
I would hope we as a nation could come together (in thought, not physically) for that.

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