No one who most people can identify has died from Covid-19 yet. No Rock Hudson, no well known

[Tom Rinaldo]

political or cultural leaders or legends have fallen from it. They will. When that happens this will become real for a lot of people who are still in denial. And neighbors around them will need to be hospitalized. Denial will completely crash. What happens then?

[wcmagumba]

1. You are right...

it will be hitting home for all with any empathy for others...Saw Katy Tur yesterday end her segment on MSNBC tearing up about the NBC sound man who passed from the virus...

[whistler162]

11. Rachel Maddow broke up at the end of her segment

over the sound guys passing.

[LakeArenal]

2. No one wants anyone to die but

That basketball player running his hands over everything .... priceless. In a bad way.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. The asshole, redneck co-worker truck driver that got in my face yesterday....

full of denial of the severity of it all and full of praise for Trumpy.

Yeah.

He can go too.

[Lulu KC]

3. Good point

It will happen, and it will be interesting to see whose eyes are opened, depending on who dies. Morbid, yet how can morbidness be avoided during a pandemic?

[tinymontgomery]

7. Here Is One Republicans Whose Eyes Were Opened

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/coronavirus-heaven-frilot-mark-frilot.html?algo=top_conversion&fellback=false&imp_id=63616934&imp_id=845128933&action=click&module=Most%20Popular&pgtype=Homepage

[cwydro]

5. I hear what you're saying, but people would have to be morons at this point not to see there is an

epidemic - a pandemic.

[Phoenix61]

6. If they voted for Twitler I think we can safely

assume they are. They aren’t going to believe it until Aunt Ruth is laid out on the dinning room table like in the old days because the funeral home is so backed up it’s taking a week for them to collect the bodies.

[cwydro]

8. True dat.

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. It is only a matter of which day it will hit them. Tomorrow? Tuesday? A week from Monday?

No denial can hold up against what is now irrevocably set in motion.

[Ms. Toad]

10. Of the three who died in Ohio -

One is a relatively promient Republican. Made for a pretty somber press conference yesterday.