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Tue Jun 30, 2020, 07:59 PM

Tink41 (425 posts)

53. I will admit

I was lulled for a minute into believing things had "cooled off". Now I remind myself every few days that nothing has changed. It terrifies me that Dr's are recommending schools open in the fall, airlines are going back to full capacity. Is someone crazy???

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77 replies	Author	Time	Post
I didn't believe it at the time, but it's looking more and more likely... [View all]	Wounded Bear	Jun 2020	OP
My niece got married last Sunday	leftieNanner	Jun 2020	#1
That is just plain stupid but people everywhere are	leftyladyfrommo	Jun 2020	#13
I hope your family remains healthy, but seriously	jayschool2013	Jun 2020	#25
Well, back then FDR was President and he set the tone.	SunSeeker	Jun 2020	#29
So true. NT	jayschool2013	Jun 2020	#30
setting the tone	bdamomma	Jun 2020	#52
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Jun 2020	#46
In the eight decades since then	misanthrope	Jun 2020	#49
I think we're experiencing a perfect storm here in the US...	Hekate	Jul 2020	#68
I think the civil unrest only seems more widespread	misanthrope	Jul 2020	#69
Good point	Hekate	Jul 2020	#70
All that advertising about what you deserve	treestar	Jul 2020	#73
Oh, completely	misanthrope	Jul 2020	#76
I'm sorry	Danmel	Jun 2020	#61
I have another friend whose daughter was married this summer	leftieNanner	Jul 2020	#75
I know exactly how you feel, Nanner	Hekate	Jul 2020	#67
It will easily be a total deaths well above 200k by November.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jun 2020	#2
And barreling down on us without slowing it's pace, is climate change.	CrispyQ	Jun 2020	#7
Appears the sheets are going to chafe a bit	misanthrope	Jun 2020	#50
My drummer got married 2 weeks ago. ON ZOOM. No reported infections!	BamaRefugee	Jun 2020	#3
With so many...	Newest Reality	Jun 2020	#4
Well it took 4 months for us to get to 126,000...	MontanaMama	Jun 2020	#5
And that's when the numbers were lower than they are today ...	aggiesal	Jun 2020	#35
Father's day	Tink41	Jun 2020	#6
Best wishes to your father...	Wounded Bear	Jun 2020	#8
Some of us have been shouting this at the top of our lungs.	Ms. Toad	Jun 2020	#11
I was out shopping today and ran into one my siblings at the market.	Blue_true	Jun 2020	#51
There's a particular irony in the sibling with the comorbities	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jun 2020	#63
I told him to go get his damned mask. I honestly don't think that people think about	Blue_true	Jul 2020	#77
I will admit	Tink41	Jun 2020	#53
Lots of someones.	Ms. Toad	Jun 2020	#56
I'm still sticking with...	Alacritous Crier	Jun 2020	#9
Yup. We're 126 days from Nov. 3. We're at 130k dead and losing 1,000 a day.	SunSeeker	Jun 2020	#31
Deaths have been declining, still	Ms. Toad	Jun 2020	#10
On That Point...	ProfessorGAC	Jun 2020	#12
There are things a lot worse than death..struggling with the aftermath of Covid is one of them	Thekaspervote	Jun 2020	#16
Absolutely. I bring that up everytime someone suggests the 40 & unders	Ms. Toad	Jun 2020	#21
We don't yet know the long term effects	sarge43	Jun 2020	#43
Well and people who survive are often left with	leftyladyfrommo	Jun 2020	#14
I am wondering if just being infected by Covid, even if you survive it, will make people more	smirkymonkey	Jun 2020	#22
That's a really good point.	leftyladyfrommo	Jun 2020	#23
I read that too. "Ground glass" opacities showed up on asymptomatics' lung scans.	SunSeeker	Jun 2020	#36
Covid-19 really, really likes lung tissue....	paleotn	Jun 2020	#45
What was seen with SARS was that people that required hospitalization	Blue_true	Jun 2020	#55
That is what is so frightening about this virus.	smirkymonkey	Jun 2020	#58
We might just as well be Sweden without the healthcare system they have	Thekaspervote	Jun 2020	#15
Yup, worst of both worlds!	SunSeeker	Jun 2020	#37
With the way the GOP and Trump have been messing with the numbers	Jarqui	Jun 2020	#17
THIS	SunSeeker	Jun 2020	#38
And it won't even be Halloween	Cartaphelius	Jun 2020	#40
Link to evidence of that.	former9thward	Jun 2020	#59
I do not have time to cite all the articles	Jarqui	Jun 2020	#64
Thank you for taking the time to post all that!	Hermit-The-Prog	Jul 2020	#71
You are cut/pasting headlines of stories that have no meat in them,	former9thward	Jul 2020	#72
Gov Newsom is saying, "Do not have any family gatherings!!!"	BigmanPigman	Jun 2020	#18
Family gatherings is the simple source, but ...	aggiesal	Jun 2020	#41
Newsom is going to enforce new restrictions announced tomorrow.	BigmanPigman	Jun 2020	#44
I just hope Newsom closes the beaches	MR. ELECTABLE	Jun 2020	#57
Big jump? ...	aggiesal	Jul 2020	#66
I've thought 250,000k by election day since we hit 100,000k	lettucebe	Jun 2020	#19
That was me I predicted between 230 and 250 k	Garion_55	Jun 2020	#20
250k by November if we are lucky	AlexSFCA	Jun 2020	#24
I predicted 350K in March.	plimsoll	Jun 2020	#26
The top asshole does not take responsibility.	warmfeet	Jun 2020	#27
Back of the envelope numbers say at least 205,000 by then	Maeve	Jun 2020	#28
I believe we will see 200k by August	Woodwizard	Jun 2020	#32
More like 200,000 by Labot Day.	niyad	Jun 2020	#33
Trump just got us banned from Europe.	SunSeeker	Jun 2020	#34
we are outcasts in the world.	bdamomma	Jun 2020	#54
Just take 1918 and multiply it for population growth and raise	bucolic_frolic	Jun 2020	#39
Is there a betting line in Vegas on number of deaths?	BarbD	Jun 2020	#42
there will be a lot of nervous people	Roc2020	Jun 2020	#47
I must b the most pessimistic person here.	marie999	Jun 2020	#48
some of the big states have someone at the wheel (NY, CA for example)	Demovictory9	Jun 2020	#60
Jesus, take the wheel!	Sogo	Jun 2020	#62
175,168 COVID-19 deaths based on Current projection scenario by October 1, 2020	progressoid	Jul 2020	#65
Mitch and the GOP own this catastrophe. We can't let trump's enablers get away with this	ecstatic	Jul 2020	#74

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