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AI just hit its COVID shutdown moment
msn ^ | Zak Johnson

Posted on 05/24/2026 9:15:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The first time everything changed this decade was on March 11, 2020, the day America's eyes were opened to COVID.

More than 4,000 people around the world had died before that date...

That all changed on Wednesday, March 11. That day, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Dow Jones officially entered a bear market, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had COVID, Donald Trump issued a travel ban on people traveling from Europe, and the NBA suspended its season after star center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the virus. I will never forget the queasy, giddy, horrifying shiver of realization I felt that evening — knowing that the world I knew had ended, and a new, unmooring and unmapped world had begun.

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid; lockdowns; ritawilson; scamdemic; shamdemic; tomhanks
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Talk about "never give up the con", this guy is still pretending that the covid lockdowns weren't a scam.

I don't know if this guy talks with a lisp, but the article reads like something narrated by the BudLight queer.

1 posted on 05/24/2026 9:15:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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For reference, on May 20, 2020 the UK government stated that Covid is harmless to “the vast majority of people.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg

And for how the scam unfolded in this country, this bit of satire should be an eye-opener.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEwpWpuIk_E


2 posted on 05/24/2026 9:18:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

WHO = CCP

Tedros Ghebreyesus only takes his marching orders from Xi.


3 posted on 05/24/2026 9:27:52 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: BenLurkin
The COVID comparison is obviously porous. We do not have two weeks to stop the spread of AI, though the mental health of the country would improve if we agreed to a two-week ban on using the term "AI" in any public or private setting. AI is also both a virus and a vaccine, depending on how it's designed and deployed.

Does the writer understand we are all laughing at this?

4 posted on 05/24/2026 9:34:03 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll never forget how the flu just disappeared those years.


5 posted on 05/24/2026 9:34:25 AM PDT by roving
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t know if this guy talks with a lisp, but the article reads like something narrated by the BudLight queer.
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That there is great commentary! I salute you.


6 posted on 05/24/2026 9:34:37 AM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like someone who knows and fears to be replaced by AI.


7 posted on 05/24/2026 9:47:59 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: BenLurkin

NEVER FORGET

They killed our loved ones so they could steal an election!


8 posted on 05/24/2026 10:49:20 AM PDT by Iron Munro (A Fool's Lack Of Sense Is Evident In Everything They Do - Ecclesiastes 10:3)
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To: Iron Munro

NEVER FORGET & AND CONSTANTLY PUNISH!


9 posted on 05/24/2026 12:24:40 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe!)
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To: BenLurkin

He types with a lisp.


10 posted on 05/24/2026 12:51:33 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: roving

It was magical.


11 posted on 05/24/2026 1:06:24 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: BenLurkin

Hank Aaron took the vaccine to show that it was safe, and died soon afterwards.


12 posted on 05/24/2026 5:39:08 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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