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The pandemic isn’t over. But America sure seems over it.
Washington Post ^ | May 29, 2020 | Dan Zak

Posted on 05/30/2020 6:29:22 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

We’re over it. The masks, the kids, the Lysol. Over it. The tragic hair, the diminished hygiene, the endless construction next door, the Zoom meetings from hell, the mind games with the unemployment office, the celibacy, the short tempers and long evenings, the looking forward to the mail, the feeling guilty about the mail carrier working double time, the corporate compassion pushing products we didn’t need even before the world went funky and febrile.

The now-more-than-everness, the president-said-whatness. Over it. Does 99.1 count as a fever? Over it. Some of us have reached the outskirts of Netflix, and we’re over it. Some of us can’t make rent; over it. And so we are deciding to have a summer after all, it seems. A summer of playing freely, of living dangerously. One hundred thousand dead, 40.8 million jobless claims. Not past it, but over it.

“We can’t keep fighting the virus from our living room,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), clearly over it, said Wednesday. . . . None of us are afraid, because we have God in our souls and God in our hearts. And we don’t watch CNN.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: corona; coronavirus; lockdown; pandemic; reopen
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"And we don’t watch CNN.”
1 posted on 05/30/2020 6:29:22 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Yep...The plannedemic is over...


2 posted on 05/30/2020 6:32:43 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Well, they will shift smoothly to social unrest, now. The virus has become a less necessary part of the narrative to achieve the Deep State’s goals.


3 posted on 05/30/2020 6:34:51 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Mr. Jeeves

WuFluCoup Part Deux


4 posted on 05/30/2020 6:36:03 AM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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To: Iscool

The scamDEMic is finito. Well except where our lib buddies are concerned. Mask shaming and judginess of ones political leanings based on your choice to wear or not to wear. The stoopidness is YUGE. But if you feel better sucking in your own halitosis, bacteria and loads of erf destroying CO2, have at it. Or simply stay home until you feel it’s safe to venture outside again. Please.


5 posted on 05/30/2020 6:37:12 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Pandemic?
What pandemic?
I never saw any pandemic.
All I saw was stupid, mindless lockdowns and unwarranted economic destruction.
Don't know even one person that got coronavirus let alone die from it.
6 posted on 05/30/2020 6:38:25 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Lol. Liberal thugs successfully terminate liberal media’s pandemic fearmongering


7 posted on 05/30/2020 6:38:58 AM PDT by granada
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When it became apparent that Blue States were actively murdering elderly people in Nursing Homes I think the average person stopped caring.


8 posted on 05/30/2020 6:39:57 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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From all of your mouths to God’s ears.

Unfortunately, a virus doesn’t give AF what WE think of it.

It ain’t gonna kill us. But it is going to gum up the works come labor day.


9 posted on 05/30/2020 6:40:38 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: SmokingJoe

I live within a 1/2 hour of metro Detroit and I don’t know anyone that got the virus.


10 posted on 05/30/2020 6:43:55 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

In a legitimate pandemic, there wouldn’t be a need to pad the numbers.


11 posted on 05/30/2020 6:45:30 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

The plan
1 Russian collusion hoax.
2 Impeachment hoax.
3 “Pandemic” hoax
4 Riots looting mayhem arson and murder
5 ??
6 ??
7 ??
8 ??

Expect more carefully planned “crisis” in the run up to November.
President Trump needs to remove Wray, replace him with Ric Grenell and come up with a plan to preempt and anticipate these well manged crisis and deal with them before they happen.


12 posted on 05/30/2020 6:47:33 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Sgt_Schultze

In Wisconsin, they reported 599 new cases on Wednesday, and 733 on Friday. The numbers keep going up here, but I don’t know any of them.


13 posted on 05/30/2020 6:51:03 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Iscool

I was over it in March. I suspected a govt/media collaboration that was all due to it being an election year.


14 posted on 05/30/2020 6:55:57 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Back on April 12th, I predicted the lock-down would be over by the end of May, one way or another.

One way was the state governments would simply declare victory and end it.

This is a version of the other way. I was hoping We The People would simply peacefully ignore it.


15 posted on 05/30/2020 6:56:44 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

im in Detroit and dont know anyone that got it...


16 posted on 05/30/2020 6:58:48 AM PDT by basalt
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To: escapefromboston; LouieFisk
When it became apparent that Blue States were actively murdering elderly people in Nursing Homes I think the average person stopped caring.

LouieFisk found this gem:

There’s what’s called “depraved heart” murder - from Findlaw cuz I don’t trust my memory right now:

“Often the intent to kill (or malice aforethought) element of murder can be satisfied by showing that the defendant showed extreme indifference to human life. These are also known as “depraved heart” murders.

Acting with extreme recklessness and knowing that act is dangerous to human life (i.e., firing through the floor of your third-story apartment) and ending a human life may satisfy this intent element, even if the person never intended to kill anyone. This has been argued in fatal DUI cases in which the driver was far too intoxicated to form any intent.”

It seems to me that forcing nursing homes to accept patients infected and still infectious people while safe alternatives were available would be an act of a "depraved heart".

17 posted on 05/30/2020 6:59:45 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I have an African American employee who has many overweight older relatives who live in New York; both her aunt and grandmother died of it.

And I have another employee whose older son (in CA) with diabetes got it, was in the hospital for a week and recovered.

Other than that, I personally know of no one who got it—unless my fever and coughing in late Feb was covid.


18 posted on 05/30/2020 6:59:48 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: virgil

out of what,,10 to 12 million people....


19 posted on 05/30/2020 7:00:06 AM PDT by basalt
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Got that right, after these riots,when do the ones start for the attempted coup of our President?


20 posted on 05/30/2020 7:08:28 AM PDT by ballplayer (By)
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