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In reply to the discussion: I am at my dads house - he does NOT believe in the Coronavirus. [View all]Duppers
(28,094 posts)49. Early onset dementia perhaps?
He's not reading enough sources?
He'll eventually come around to acknowledging the truth in a few months. Just hope he'll extend that mea culpa he owes you.
But if he's like the 2 very obstinate PhD physicists I deal with in my immediate family, I kinda doubt you'll get an apology. I know how tough it can be plowing through their stubbornly held but wrong assumptions on subjects outside their fields of knowledge. My condolences.
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limbaugh has been calling it a hoax, overblown, another liberal scam. ask him
certainot
Mar 2020
#85
What do you want him to do that he isn't? Is he independently living, going out and mixing
Doodley
Mar 2020
#83
Likely the community where she is living will curtail trips outside, and will do
No Vested Interest
Mar 2020
#72
a physician relative told me recently that Big Foot was an alien. She learned it from
Maraya1969
Mar 2020
#16
I know someone who's a long, long-time Coast to Coast listener. He's a successful engineer.
chia
Mar 2020
#55
Does he still live in Albuquerque? I would let him continue not believing. He will be happier
Quixote1818
Mar 2020
#19
10% of the human race has been quarantined, anyone intimating this is no big deal is in denial now
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#21
Tell him if he says it one more time he gets shipped to the Life Care Center in Kirkland WA.
grantcart
Mar 2020
#22
I sincerely hope he is correct and it is nothing. But the entire nation of Italy would disagree.
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#24
my uncle is the same way...ugh...these old farts. Just wear a mask around your dad..
samnsara
Mar 2020
#58