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Scenes from a panicked populace.
My actual experience | 3/14/2020 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 03/14/2020 4:18:31 PM PDT by Lazamataz

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To: metmom

Nothing is in short supply where we are in northern VT - plus it’s sugaring season, so everybody has a barrel or two of maple syrup.


161 posted on 03/14/2020 5:24:36 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: MrEdd

I agree, but what happens (like in Italy) when modern first-world hospitals are overrun and all the miracle products are no longer available for the flood of critical patients?

When the ICU beds and ventilators are all full, and there are 10 people stacked in the hall who can’t breath?

Then, it might as well be 1918. If you are dying in March of 2020, you can’t wait for a hypothetical vaccine in March of 2021.

Do you think they are just faking this in Italy, (and in Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, etc) to panic Americans and hurt Trump?

FYI, Milan is much more similar to Zurich or Vienna than to Naples. That is, it’s “first world” medicine and hospitals that have been overrun by sheer numbers.

Now they are dropping the triage age from 65 to 60.

You just run out of modern miracles when you are faced with EXPONENTIAL growth.


162 posted on 03/14/2020 5:24:43 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ADemocratNoMore

Dirty little secret: Toilet paper is as versatile as duct tape!


163 posted on 03/14/2020 5:25:13 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: abb

And your point is?


164 posted on 03/14/2020 5:25:16 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: moovova

It was a great move by Trump to fill up the SPR.


165 posted on 03/14/2020 5:26:22 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Lazamataz

It’s just folks stocking up before the hoarders arrive.


166 posted on 03/14/2020 5:27:13 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: abb

Let’s compare outlooks in one month, okay?


167 posted on 03/14/2020 5:27:27 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Lazamataz

Spain has isolated itself - just in time to cut itself off from marauding Americans. Their supermarkets are stacked with toilet paper which seems to be an international attractive nuisance. Americans would have been flying there to bring back toilet paper.


168 posted on 03/14/2020 5:27:55 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: unixfox

Sheeple,,,
I’d say
“Lemmings!”


169 posted on 03/14/2020 5:28:25 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Nextrush

Welcome to Venezuela....

Same thought crossed my mind looking at those pictures.


170 posted on 03/14/2020 5:28:56 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah ... lesson learned.


171 posted on 03/14/2020 5:29:17 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Lazamataz

We’re surrounded by know-nothing fools and that’s just the way the career politicians and their media hounds want it.


172 posted on 03/14/2020 5:29:26 PM PDT by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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To: EvilCapitalist
There’s no such thing as “enough ammo.”

...or too much ammo.

173 posted on 03/14/2020 5:30:46 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (Time for all patriotic Americans to boycott liberals and all SJW/PC bullsh*t.)
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To: LUV W

Lots of stores are doing that. Problem is, every member of the family grabs a shopping cart and each one buys the limit.


174 posted on 03/14/2020 5:31:32 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Travis McGee

Italy screwed the pooch concentrating their ill in one place, which guaranteed that they would lose control of sanitation even though it’s a hospital.

Italy also does not have first world health care. They have Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, a happy brand of single payer government healthcare. They have decided to let old people die.


175 posted on 03/14/2020 5:32:14 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Hieronymus

I’ve got 45 pounds of kidney beans coming in next week which will about do it for me.

About 2 ounces of kidney beans should do it for me.


176 posted on 03/14/2020 5:32:17 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I still have my masks from way back. Still in their plastic. Perfect condition. Being prepared is never a mistake.


177 posted on 03/14/2020 5:32:45 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: moovova

We have that book. It’s been invaluable.

L


178 posted on 03/14/2020 5:34:18 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: abigkahuna

Sounds cool,
BIL sells Leather
and such at
“Reenactment” doings.


179 posted on 03/14/2020 5:34:35 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Travis McGee

Like Howard Hughes, you and and a lot of other Doomers are raging paranoiacs. It has literally eaten y’all alive. You’re in love with the prospect of apocalypse. It HAS to happen, you think. Otherwise your entire world view collapses into dust. You think that world is out to get you. With that attitude, sooner or later it will.

Well, I hated to disappoint you. The sun will rise tomorrow. It will rain. It will snow. Life will go on. You, me, and every single FReeper don’t matter a whit to Mankind in the long run. Mankind will survive and prosper.

That’s my point.


180 posted on 03/14/2020 5:34:41 PM PDT by abb
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