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660,000 white flags fly across National Mall for victims of COVID-19
NY Post ^ | 09/17/2021 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 09/17/2021 9:29:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

More than 660,000 white flags have been displayed in a solemn tribute across a vast expanse on the National Mall in Washington, DC — each representing a life lost to the coronavirus pandemic in a heart-rending exhibit called “In America: Remember.”

The 20-acre installation — which was unveiled Friday near the Washington Monument — is the second chilling exhibit that artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg said is based on a project trying to capture the “human dignity” behind the staggering death toll.

As of Friday, 670,034 deaths — one of every 500 Americans — have been recorded in the US and more than 41,700,000 cases confirmed, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 660000; covid; covid1984; fear; fearporn; flags; nationalmall; propaganda; victims; whiteflags; withcovid
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looks like cotton picking time in The South.....................


21 posted on 09/17/2021 9:46:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

400,000 victims during Trump admin without vaccine, 250000 during Biden in 8.5 months with vaccine. Do the maths.


22 posted on 09/17/2021 9:46:37 AM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How bloody phony


23 posted on 09/17/2021 9:47:00 AM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Victims of the research that Dr. Fauci funded.

The thing that bothers me most about gain-of function research is that there hasn't been a single benefit reported from the work.

They claim the research was necessary but I have yet to see a single data point GOF research has contributed to fighting Covid-19.

24 posted on 09/17/2021 9:48:23 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When will the flags be raised or put out for those that died from the vaccines or getting COVID after being jabbed?


25 posted on 09/17/2021 9:48:33 AM PDT by SkyDancer (How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Compare 600,000 (including, no doubt, misattributed deaths that are more due to comorbidities) to the 60,000,000 babies murdered in US abortions alone.


26 posted on 09/17/2021 9:48:52 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did they die “of” it, or “with” it?


27 posted on 09/17/2021 9:51:55 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Most of the flags are fake. The danger was either exaggerated or , in the case of nursing homes, deliberate. Communists don't care about casualties or truth.

28 posted on 09/17/2021 9:52:02 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman

LOL!!

Borrowing...and, agree about the FAKE death numbers, last year everything was coded CV...as your meme aptly explains :-)


29 posted on 09/17/2021 9:53:13 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Were they all made in China?


30 posted on 09/17/2021 9:53:21 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In other news, no flags for the aborted.

Even China didn’t have enough to fill that order.


31 posted on 09/17/2021 9:54:15 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They should use otherwise useless white face masks.


32 posted on 09/17/2021 9:54:21 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Virtue signaling I think. But at least this woman is willing to put her money where her mouth is as she paid for the flags. So I did some research: they look like irrigation flags. Even if they aren’t, they’re similar. You can’t touch those for less than $.13 each plus tax on Amazon. For these vast quantities you could probably get that down further, perhaps $.08. That would be about 50 grand out of her own pocket. A little pricey for the pleasure of taking a swipe at the government of Texas in an NPR article, but to each his own, and a fool and his money are soon parted. After all, Newsom just spent $100 million to win an election he already won


33 posted on 09/17/2021 9:55:27 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are they sure the flags aren’t the Taliban flag? Would they know the difference?


34 posted on 09/17/2021 9:55:28 AM PDT by Chgogal (Biden's New Taliban, same as the old Taliban.)
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To: John S Mosby

In America today, EVERYTHING is fake.


35 posted on 09/17/2021 9:56:19 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Pretty much a third of all people go one way, another third go the opposite way, and a middle third will go either way, reluctantly. One third of all people will run out and get vaccinated, me, and another third will absolutely not get voluntarily vaccinated. The middle third will eventually be coerced into getting vaccinated.

It is the one third who will not be vaccinated voluntarily that the covidians are counting on. As long as there is a signficant portion of the population that is not vaccinated, they can keep hand wringing and fear mongering about covid. They say they want these people vaccinated, but they really don’t. If everyone got vaccinated, they would have to admit to a fact.

The entire strategy of the covidians is to keep it uncertain as much as possible, to never be pinned down as to any specific fact. As soon as we know something, they will have to change the approach. The reason they love Fauci so much is that he can say one thing with total sincerity, couched in highbrow language, and within a couple of days he can completely contradict what he has said previously, also with complete sincerity. He truly believes whatever he is saying at the time he says it.


36 posted on 09/17/2021 9:57:27 AM PDT by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Victims of Chinese COMMUNISM!


37 posted on 09/17/2021 10:00:52 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: webheart

[[We will remain in fear mode at least through the winter]]

Disagree- they will keep the steeple in perpetual fear. They set out to divide the country, going by thr mantra of “divide and conquer”, and they succeeded. Ow they Wil. Keep the low info folks in a constant state of fear for years. They are drunk on the power it has given them. They are a,ready talking about a ‘mu variant” or some such nonsense, because the de.ta variant is burning itself out quicker than they planned for.

There aren’t enough doctors with integrity coming forward to dispute the 660,000 numbers with facts, so the public only hears that number and thinks it’s true. And they are scared witless.

Me thinks the low info peeps who tremble whenever they see someone reaching freely in public, should probably go into the “witless protection” program


38 posted on 09/17/2021 10:02:53 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Keeps people from gathering to protest.


39 posted on 09/17/2021 10:03:09 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: right way right

Best post in the thread. Nailed it.


40 posted on 09/17/2021 10:04:20 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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