Coronavirus: Are You In It For The Long Run?

[PoliTalker]

Hello Dutch Uncle,

The main problem, IMHO, is that one of the richest nations, and certainly most powerful, has gutted itself for two decades and now can't handle a simple pandemic.

I know.

It's all part of having a poser president.

Gotta get rid of him in November.

[Doc Dutch]

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Thanks for the picture. I figured the old military vets would get the reference.

I was a few years behind you and missed all of the fun. My dad served two tours but all I got was a "Alive in '75" medal.

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My dad at Cam Ranh Bay and after he passed from Alzheimer's last December.
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[Doc Dutch]

Hello Dutch Uncle,



I know.

It's all part of having a poser president.

Gotta get rid of him in November.

Trump is certainly a fucking moron and I continue to get a daily laugh out of his antics. OTOH, I'm not comfortable with a Democrat WH, a possible Democrat Senate and a Democrat House. The nation needs balance, not domination by either side.

[Eagle_Eye]

Thanks for the picture. I figured the old military vets would get the reference.

I was a few years behind you and missed all of the fun. My dad served two tours but all I got was a "Alive in '75" medal.

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My dad at Cam Ranh Bay and after he passed from Alzheimer's last December.
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Thank you for your service and I am sorry for your loss. My father in law passed the same way what an awful disease. He was a POW in Russia WWII till he escaped.

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

A lot of people seem to get way too hung up on the latest news, the latest headlines.

We live in this unsustainable throw-away world of disposable products, and it seems like the news is becoming a disposable product. The latest headlines are attention-grabbing and we want to know the latest, want to talk about what it means (and here, apparently, we want to talk about one another more than the actual political subject,) but what about the bigger picture?

Each day's headlines contribute to a much bigger picture. Really, the long standing trends and changes are more important.

How does this obsession with the latest news hurt us?

Well, look at the Coronavirus.

Most people were great at social distancing at first, right after the national emergency was declared. But as the headlines got stale, people wanted to be done with that, wanted to move on.

The only problem is the pandemic has not gone away.

If we drop our guard, stop practicing social distancing measures, that allows the virus to have a resurgence.

That is apparently what happened in 1918, and it looks like it is about to happen all over again.

People, we need to think beyond the last thing that was said.

We have to see the bigger picture.

you're basic.

[PoliTalker]

Hello Dutch Uncle,

Trump is certainly a fucking moron and I continue to get a daily laugh out of his antics. OTOH, I'm not comfortable with a Democrat WH, a possible Democrat Senate and a Democrat House. The nation needs balance, not domination by either side.

The swinging of the political pendulum is not domination by either side.

[Doc Dutch]

Thank you for your service and I am sorry for your loss. My father in law passed the same way what an awful disease. He was a POW in Russia WWII till he escaped.

Thank you for yours in a time of war. Thanks. Yes, it's not the way I'd want to go. Russia? What service?

[Eagle_Eye]

Thank you for yours in a time of war. Thanks. Yes, it's not the way I'd want to go. Russia? What service?

Navy.

During WWII Russia had a non agression pact with Japan. So any American crews that flew into Kamchatka from the east were detained as POWS. They would be moved from camp to camp until they were near the ME where they were allowed to escape. The book The Last Flight of Bomber 31 has a picture of my FIL's crew in it. Good book about the war in the North Pacific, I highly recommend it.

[PostmodernProphet]

Russian collusion......over
Mueller report......over
impeachment......over
coronavirus........over

we're on to cities burning now.......

[PostmodernProphet]

As we can see in Brazil! Nice and warm down there, I believe.

???.....its almost the first day of winter there, dude......

[gfm7175]

A lot of people seem to get way too hung up on the latest news, the latest headlines.

We live in this unsustainable throw-away world of disposable products, and it seems like the news is becoming a disposable product. The latest headlines are attention-grabbing and we want to know the latest, want to talk about what it means (and here, apparently, we want to talk about one another more than the actual political subject,) but what about the bigger picture?

Each day's headlines contribute to a much bigger picture. Really, the long standing trends and changes are more important.

How does this obsession with the latest news hurt us?

Well, look at the Coronavirus.

Most people were great at social distancing at first, right after the national emergency was declared. But as the headlines got stale, people wanted to be done with that, wanted to move on.

The only problem is the pandemic has not gone away.

If we drop our guard, stop practicing social distancing measures, that allows the virus to have a resurgence.

That is apparently what happened in 1918, and it looks like it is about to happen all over again.

People, we need to think beyond the last thing that was said.

We have to see the bigger picture.

What "pandemic"?

[gfm7175]

One of the things that was so shocking about the Coronavirus when it was new,

The coronavirus is not new.

was the realization that everyday life had to change, and it had to change for a long time.

It hasn't changed. I still live my life the same as I did before.

We learned that we have to get a vaccine, or herd immunity, before we can go back to life as we knew it.

Not needed. Learn what an immune system is and how it works.

If we try to blow this off and rush things?

Blow WHAT off?

We could have a second wave, a third wave, multiple waves.

I like waves.

Everybody heard this, but it seems a lot of people have not done a good job of making a commitment to fight this thing till the end.

A virus is not a war.

And we have very poor leadership. That is hurting us a lot. DT is acting like it's all over, and so are his sycophants.

There was never even a situation, let alone a pandemic.

Just because the headlines get replaced every day doesn't mean the old ones become meaningless.

There was never even a situation, let alone a pandemic.

[gfm7175]

We are all part of the army needed to fight Coronavirus.

A virus is not a war.

We need good leadership because we are not trained to do this. We never signed up for this.

We have immune systems, dude. We are already "locked and loaded"

If we don't have good leadership we are not going to remain committed.

... to what?

Losing 100 thousand Americans is losing the war.

A virus is not a war.
Those numbers are a lie.

If only we had good leadership.

DT is a failure.

DT is getting my vote (IN PERSON) once again in November.

[gfm7175]

No worries. According to the trump worshipping "mental midgets", the CV is a hoax and will be gone when the weather gets warm.

CV itself is not a hoax. It exists. The mass hysteria surrounding CV IS a hoax, however.

[Phantasmal]

CV itself is not a hoax. It exists. The mass hysteria surrounding CV IS a hoax, however.

No, it isn’t either, if we had no “staying in” our medical facilities would have been overwhelmed.