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still_one

(92,216 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2020, 12:31 PM Mar 2020

WHO labels coronavirus now a pandemic

Just reported on Bloomberg

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WHO labels coronavirus now a pandemic (Original Post) still_one Mar 2020 OP

I hope it makes a difference and people start taking this seriously. Dennis Donovan Mar 2020 #1

This outbreak with have to go seriously bad with tens of thousands of deaths before they wake up. Thomas Hurt Mar 2020 #2

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)

1. I hope it makes a difference and people start taking this seriously.

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 12:34 PM

Mar 2020

They still aren't.

I conversed with a cashier at the local market this morning. She says it's overblown. I had to ask what news she watches. My assumption was correct: Fox News ("because CNN lies to you" she said).

I said good luck to her and headed for the purell station.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

2. This outbreak with have to go seriously bad with tens of thousands of deaths before they wake up.