Shaggy
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Humans are capable of so much and we squander it away.
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Humans are capable of so much and we squander it away.
Nope. Didn’t buy any extras. Already had overkill on ammo and weaponry because every time I get paid I buy some boxes of different calibers. Been doing that for years. Buy a few new guns every year. Food is something that I have always kept extras of. No panic buying here. Never have panic bought a thing.
Shaggy
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We bought a little extra food....pasta, sauce flour things we can stretch. Had enough ammo already so basically I'm working like normal. I'm seeing so many people come together versus the doom and gloom view that we may slide into social unrest.
Shaggy
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Doubt this gets many likes here it a good timeline of our failures.
www.lmtonline.com
The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
WASHINGTON - By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president - and the...
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That is one thing I do miss. Being with my dad on the farm every Saturday hunting in the foothills of the Appalachians. .222 ground hog hunting a lot this time of year. Loved those country meals with all the family. Uncles & cousins. After we put hay up or worked the crops. At night we would look at the planets thru the telescope. Wish my kids could experience the hard work on a farm and the rewards of a true country meal. Also the days of driving around with the guns in the back of the truck window in the rack with no worries of someone stealing it. Now those were the days.
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I am actually enjoying these days. Been absolutely perfect wx to mulch and get things done around the house. Running to Lowe’s to get what I need. Have not changed my habits much at all. Food trucks have been coming to neighborhood with terrific foods and kids playing outdoors a lot which seemed to had gotten lost in years past. Playing basketball and bad mitten. Riding bikes together. Honestly would never know any restrictions around here. So yes everyone is coming together great here also. Neighbors we never really knew we do now. Of course we are keeping that distance and not any handshakes.
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On a side note. Everyone is thinking social distancing is what is causing the declines. Which is very possible but maybe higher temps and humidity are playing a part also. Hopefully the vaccine is ready by fall because I would think we are not done with seeing this virus at all. If it does come around like the seasonal flu. Now you will have deaths by seasonal flu and this virus together. Good news though is that 1-2 million deaths that went down to 100-200k deaths looks like maybe under a 100k hopefully now. Another bit of good news
www.breitbart.com
Common Anti-Parasite Drug May Kill Coronavirus in Under 48 Hours, Say Researchers
Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19).
www.breitbart.com
You gonna respond to my post, or are you letting it marinate a while before fully responding.On a side note. Everyone is thinking social distancing is what is causing the declines. Which is very possible but maybe higher temps and humidity are playing a part also. Hopefully the vaccine is ready by fall because I would think we are not done with seeing this virus at all. If it does come around like the seasonal flu. Now you will have deaths by seasonal flu and this virus together. Good news though is that 1-2 million deaths that went down to 100-200k deaths looks like maybe under a 100k hopefully now. Another bit of good news
Common Anti-Parasite Drug May Kill Coronavirus in Under 48 Hours, Say Researchers
Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19).
Or just shoot a PM. Just tell me it made ya think in a different way. Give me something man. I ain't picky or hard to please, I promise.
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No we’re good. I actually am not worried at all about if everything falls apart. If it does I will push forward and do the best I can to survive and make the best situation for my family. People in here say I’m doom & gloom but look at the post of many in the virus thread. It’s always how many are going to die. They focus on nothing but the deaths and cases. How about focusing on the 98-99% that survive. All life is precious. I don’t mind thru end of April keeping things shut down. It’s past that it just is not going to work. As someone said in the virus thread. What happens when it appears again it does? China having cases again. Shutdown again? Bottom line there will still be deaths because of this virus. Hopefully we will be better prepared and a vaccine is available. We just can’t shut down for months and expect to return to normal so quickly. Can we control the deaths? Maybe the social distancing is working. Maybe it’s warmer temps. Maybe it’s herd immunity? None of us have the answers. The positives I see is 98-99% survive, deaths are appearing to be less everyday from this virus and not the millions once predicted,warmer days are here. To be me it’s like a scale. Tip one way too many deaths. Tip the other way and a depression. Not an easy place for any President or governor or mayor to be in. Dang if you do and dang if you don’t. Ok let’s stay lockdown till end of April and then let’s move on and get America back open and running.You gonna respond to my post, or are you letting it marinate a while before fully responding.
Or just shoot a PM. Just tell me it made ya think in a different way. Give me something man. I ain't picky or hard to please, I promise.
Shaggy
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Bush knew it was possible. He was forward thinking and preparing when they could.
www.yahoo.com
George W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare'
In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through an advance reading copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic. When he returned to Washington, he called his top homeland security adviser into the Oval Office and...
Bush knew it was possible. He was forward thinking and preparing when they could.
George W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare'
In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through an advance reading copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic. When he returned to Washington, he called his top homeland security adviser into the Oval Office and...
I always liked him. Still do.
Sandbar
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You want likes for posting negative BS? The only people that like negative post during something like this are negative people. The good doctor that we all know and love didn't have this thing targeted correctly in the beginning. But he isnt the person you hate who is running for re election right?Doubt this gets many likes here it a good timeline of our failures.
The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
WASHINGTON - By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president - and the...
LetItSnow
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Bush knew it was possible. He was forward thinking and preparing when they could.
George W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare'
In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through an advance reading copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic. When he returned to Washington, he called his top homeland security adviser into the Oval Office and...
Bush was a good man maligned relentlessly.
What I find reprehensible is how the Obama administration not only sent $1.7 billion dollars in cash to Iran they released billions more of their "assets" instead of seizing them. All while failing to replenish the stockpile.
Round Oak Weather
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I don’t think anyone has touched on this one but the beaches weren’t opened for people to go party on the beach they were opened for exercise only no beach paraphernalia would be allowed on the beach. DNR would be patrolling and sending anyone home with beach paraphernalia and anyone who wasn’t following social distancing rules or in big groups would be sent home. From what I’ve heard everyones been following the rules and it’s only been a few people out and about. I don’t live there so someone else can say if it’s the truth about the people out on the beaches.
Shaggy
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Negative or just a truth yall dont like hearing?
I always liked him, too, and still do.
I thought he truly was/is compassionate and a genuinely nice person. I also give him a lot of points for virtually never criticizing his successor despite there being plenty to criticize. He was humble in that way. He respected other people in general as opposed to looking down on them. I voted for him twice.
Ironically, he was constantly maligned by the left as not only being a supposed war criminal but also for supposedly being dumb. I never heard the end of that. He didn’t have good grades in school, perhaps because he didn’t apply himself. Indeed, I don’t think he has a very high IQ like Carter, Clinton, or Obama. However, one has to wonder based on his worries about the next pandemic if he has a different kind of intelligence in the form of great intuition. Also, where does it say one has to have a high IQ to be a good and well respected person? After all, IQ is pretty much out of one’s control as I understand it. You can’t help it if you weren’t born with it.
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Big difference between a high education type IQ and a real life IQ. He was(is) a very smart man. He has an above average IQ. The difference between him and the next Republican President is that he listened to his advisors. He surrounded himself with smart people who would tell him if he was wrong. He also thought things through and never made a move without calculating it out.
As you said, he’s a nice guy. Look at the relationship he has with the Obama’s. They are genuinely friends and Michelle Obama thinks the world of him.
Sandbar
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So is the good doctor full of ---- too? Easy yes or no answer......
Sandbar
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Bush had been in business AND politics. He knew how to blend the two when he built his cabinet. Trump came in with no political experience. This is why the turnover has been so high in my opinion. He has been the boss his entire life. He has put some great people in his cabinet, some bad. Thats the way it goes. You dont do your job your out. He is cut throat no doubt but results matter.
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Bill Gates calls coronavirus pandemic a 'nightmare scenario,' but predicts lower death toll than Trump
Gates predicted things won't "go back to truly normal until we have a vaccine that we've gotten out to basically the entire world."
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ghost1
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The article is one of many you can find that points out the dearth of leadership and not only dysfunction but blatant politically motivated misinformation and diversion from the POTUS weeks ago when the warning signs were flashing red. True leadership doesn't show up when the waters are calm and the sailing is smooth. True leadership shows up in the storms of adversity and doesn't weigh the course of actions to take on how they feel it might affect their political future.
Sandbar
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So I will ask you the same question. Dr. Fauci? Yes or No? Good job? Bad job? He has been in this position for a long time.
ForsythSnow
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Fauci isn't running for president in 2020 and you're comparing apples to oranges. Any elected official should be true leaders in this fight or they should be told to get out with votes in November. Easy as that. Authorities like Trump or even worse, GA governor Kemp were in denial or acted dumb toward the virus, and honestly if they aren't going to be a leader and work to help us out of this they shouldn't be in their position.
Trump just said Gov Pritzker of IL hasn't done well. Trump isn't for America as a whole. Trump is for the Red nation in America and remains incredibly divisive. GWB and Reagan were never that way. He's such a jerk and has no class. He needs to go away.
Cad Wedge NC
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Just look at the way the "deep-state" and the blue-media have treated him..... can you blame him for being skeptical of Dems?.... No.
Sandbar
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Trump has been LOCK STEP with Dr. Fauci from Day 1 yet Dr. Fauci is a rock star and Trump didnt act quick enough. Its amazing that people just cant admit that the entire team including Trump has done a great job. Im not comparing fruit here. Im simply pointing out great leadership. I dont know a thing about weather and not much about viruses but I know a hell of a lot about LEADERSHIP having served under and learned from some of the best. We all have our strengths here. This is one of mine
I don't know about the "deep state", whatever the heck that is, but I do know that Trump has brought a lot of the negative Trump media bias on himself. He's not Presidential. He's purely political. There will NEVER be untiy under him. We'll never be the United States while he's POTUS. He's horrible
Sandbar
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When Donald Trump gets punched he hits back. So did Reagan just in a different way. Its about time a Republican president stopped taking the lefts BS!
Sandbar
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Please! They were spying on his ass before he was even elected. The leftist media are horribly biased and they are a-holes......just like DT!
Cad Wedge NC
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Oh give me a break...... you know what the term "Deep state" means. However, if you're really serious and don't know, it is the underlying control that the Democrats have in this country...... Media, financial sectors, politics, etc.
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Hopefully he gets 4 more years to clean the swamp out.
No doubt we are going to be dealing with hyperinflation and higher taxes. If it’s Biden then hopefully he has someone to remind him his name every day. We will not have any shortages of jokes, gifs, and laughs with him as president. I’d bet he would go down as one of worse presidents ever.
No doubt we are going to be dealing with hyperinflation and higher taxes. If it’s Biden then hopefully he has someone to remind him his name every day. We will not have any shortages of jokes, gifs, and laughs with him as president. I’d bet he would go down as one of worse presidents ever.
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mydoortotheworld
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Just wait till someone comes along from the other end and "punches back" to those on the right. Can't wait to see your responses then! "Boo hoo, so-and-so did this! So offended! So unprofessional!"
mydoortotheworld
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I mean we already kind of see this from the right. So hilarious. From Starbucks announcing red-only cups for Christmas, to Nike endorsing Colin Kaepernick - you won't believe the amount of crying that happened! You'd almost confuse it for a safe space at a liberal college campus!
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Trump raises prospect of lockdown lift knowing people will get virus
The president's, left, words during Saturday raise the prospect of reopening businesses soon. 'We have to get back to work. We don't want to be doing this for months and months', he said.
Sandbar
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Mmmmm.....nope. I like a good fight.
It really is unbelievable the first slightest sign Trump disagrees with Fuaci then Trump's an idiot and everybody begging he will listen to the great doc. But when Fauci initially didnt think this was a big deal for the US and Trump was listening Trump's an idiot....haha the hatred for this POTUS is unlike anything I've ever seen. And apparently criticism for the dr isn't warranted bc he isn't running for pres? Give me a break
Sandbar
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Whats amazing is the ego of people who can't give the man credit because he has an ego.
My disapproval of a spoiled millionaire, disrespecting all the men & women who sacrificed so he has the right to concoct a so called protest, isn't even comparable to the everybody gets a trophy let me run to my safe space crowd crying you mentioned. That's funny
Flurry
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I thought about this the other day....What kind of shape would the country be in if Hillary had been elected??? Very scary thought!!!
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