Posted on 03/16/2020 10:07:59 AM PDT by Mariner
thread # 17 is here...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3824800/posts?q=1&;page=1
You need to pull it together.
America has made it through as bad if not worse and we have the president that I trust to lead us through it economically better than any president in history.
It’s going to be a rough ride for a while, maybe even a year or two, but I firmly believe we will come out better as a nation. In fact, I think it has the potential to change people for the better.
You’ve never been on the Gulf Coast when Jim Cantore says a hurricane is coming?
All we know for sure is some countries have hit the pause button.
No evidence? China, newly reported cases: 20. 20! New deaths, 13! Now we probably have good cause to doubt China's reporting. But let's look at South Korea vs. USA:
South Korea Total Cases / New Cases / Total Deaths / New Deaths:
8236 / 74 / 75 / 0
USA Total Cases / New Cases / Total Cases / New Deaths:
4667 / 987 / 87 / 19
Of our 87 deaths, 29 are linked to the Kirkland nursing home. So there is some indicative evidence of "turning the corner" when you look at how the number of new cases in China and South Korea has been contained by measures taken. Will they ultimately have the same quantity of cases? Maybe, but then if all we are doing is buying down a longer crisis then I think there may be better ways of doing that. As I offered earlier, we could do extreme measures for those who might otherwise be cases that would stress healthcare services.
Anyway, looking at the numbers you wonder how China with 3,226 deaths would ever get to the numbers of deaths which happen with the Flu season.
I had heard HOWEVER walking into it was SHOCKING, just like stores in Venezuela or Cuba just shocking I have lived a long time and never seen this!! I have never lived in hurricane zones, or storm areas however this is different during a storm you can’t get out and about, we are free to go to the grocery store any time we like, WHY are people behaving this way!!
Many thanks, Trump Girl, for letting me know I’m not alone. I take comfort in knowing the Lord is coming soon, and that He is in control, but this is like a shock to your psyche. It’s not just about empty shelves in a store, that’s bad enough, but then it’s about being told what we can and can’t do, where we can and can’t go,how far to stand from each other. No church, no fellowship, no freedom.
And certainly no time to grieve those things.
Gotta love it.
My son is proudly telling me he is through Thursday now on his assignments. He is NOT normally the best student.
Danger Zone
(Out there :)
Oh, lord give me patience.
We have no clue.
It’s amazing to us as well.
My only thought is that more people rely on eating out and someone else (the schools) feeding their families and have a half a bottle of expired mustard and a 6pk of expired skunky beer in their fridge at home. And that’s all.
But the last place I’d be, for a non essential bunch of bananas, is one of those stores today. What were you thinking?
OP ED by Trinh Nguyen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone explain to me how celebrities with mild symptoms are able to get tested but there are 40-something people in serious to critical condition at one hospital in GA that can’t get tested.
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First of all seniors are just not like that they are not the ME, ME, ME generation AND they are also on very fixed incomes so they are not going to hoard anything!! They should be going into the stores when they are clean before everybody gets in and spreads their germs around!!
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Agree!!
Seniors (for the most part) are on fixed incomes (I know my inlaws are) and the carts I see, of seniors, are ALWAYS pretty skimpy looking.
I love the idea of the seniors having first go, early in the morning, at the grocery stores.
Also, these young families are barely moving from their cereal bowls, by the time seniors would be finishing up their shopping.
Wife and I went shopping a little while ago to Walmart and Walgreen’s. Generally good stock except complete bare shelves when it came to dairy, toilet paper, and wipes. Also, neither place had any thermometers at all.
You said it!
Paywall...?
Oh, not your coffee pot! Lol! I own a percolator now and truly love it!
In CNY, the schools were to close at the end of this week.
Mr. mm kept telling me they wouldn’t go that long.
They are closed, as of ..... today.
“We’re being told this is just temporary and necessary. But I can’t help but believe we have left the world we knew behind, and this is not temporary.”
I agree - the new normal will not be anything like the old normal. Enjoy what’s left of it, as the world we knew slowly starts to deteriorate.
Very sad...but what the heck, gotta love GLOBALISM!
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Thank you, cbgb’s! I apologize if I responded dismissively to you before. Tomorrow is my 60th birthday. Not much of a Birthday. Anyway, thank you!
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