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Holy crap. I just realized that the US passed France in the last couple of days, regarding number of deaths. And if today is as bad as yesterday's 2000 deaths, they'll also pass Spain. Brutal.
Holy crap. I just realized that the US passed France in the last couple of days, regarding number of deaths. And if today is as bad as yesterday's 2000 deaths, they'll also pass Spain. Brutal.
USA is going to easily grab that #1 spot in all categories. It must be that "stable genius" thing.
I have been watching closely the Ontario numbers. I give Ontario government credit for coming out on Friday and giving projections. Doug Ford gave the deer in the headlights performance but he does appear to be sincere and scared. Has everyone absorbed the Ontario projections yet? I am interested to hear opinions.
Specifically they predicted the following for Ontario
Total deaths ( 18 months to 2 years) - 3,000 to 15,000 deaths
Predictions to end of April with current actions - 1,600 deaths.
Every afternoon, a couple of doctors come out and give the daily numbers.
USA is going to easily grab that #1 spot in all categories. It must be that "stable genius" thing. ...
Nope. Now it's WHO's fault. Apparently he's running out of Americans to blame. But hey, look at the economy!. ; )
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Nope. Now it's WHO's fault. Apparently he's running out of Americans to blame. But hey, look at the economy!. ; )
If Hillary had won and implemented all of the Democrat policies this current economy would not be very much different from the economy that she would have created. Ditto for Bernie and Joe.
The WHO does bear responsibility for spreading the lie that the virus was not transmissible from person to person. There's lots of blame to go around but now is not the time to be assessing blame while the situation is ongoing. The bad thing from your point of view is that Trump is going to win the election for sure now.
I blame mankind. We have disrespected our planet, now it is disrespecting us. We are all in a fight for our lives. The last time something like this took place was about 100 years ago, the Spanish Flu. It took three years to go away, and the second wave was far more lethal than the first. This is just getting started, all of us need to wake up and smell the coffee, before it is too late. We are all in this together.
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