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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

  1. Jerry-atric

    Jerry-atric Well-Known Member

    My friend, that was his very good point!
     
  2. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    They certainly learned, as all states did, what not to do with nursing homes. But you’d have to consider that a mistake for it to have been worthy of learning from.

    It’s a little like how rallies and gatherings by the bad people spread the virus, but rallies and Halloween parties by the goods were no big deal.

    Covid is a morality play, and has long been. The burden of guilt has shifted from Trump to the general population of bad people. One of the reasons that I hate Trump, is that he’s made this shift possible. The class warfare that awaits won’t be between economic bands. It’ll be teachers and nurses against small business owners and factory workers. Government officials against youth sports parents. It'll suck.
     
  3. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    People bitched about Halloween parties *constantly* in my parts of the world. Personally, I think trick or treating was fine, but that was not a popular opinion in liberal circles.
     
  4. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    They need to take a number ... I've been bitching about Halloween parties for 30 years.
     
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  5. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  6. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Trick or treating? No. College and young adult Halloween parties? That spread it pretty well.

    What you haven’t seen is mass guilting over Halloween. You saw it for Thanksgiving. The begging and pleading for weeks on end from teary-eyed medical residents did not come for Halloween, the great millennial cosplay event.
     
  7. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

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  8. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    A week before Halloween, our 7-day rolling average was 64k cases per day. A week before Thanksgiving, it was 170k.
     
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  9. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Of course, it was a week before the election, too.
     
  10. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    ... Are you asserting that people were *less* likely to be vocal about COVID before the election than after?
     
  11. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    The reason it wouldn't pass: Your boy from Kentucky has been unwilling to negotiate at all. He has done nothing. He hasn't said, "Come on. Some of this stuff is non-germane. Let's do something that a relief bill in a time of crisis is supposed to do." He has let it sit on his desk because he knows that inaction plays well enough with enough people in his backward, SEC state to benefit him personally.
     
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  12. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    Great story. What a guy
     
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