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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 09:12 AM Mar 2020

What would we be willing to do if we could save, say, a million Americans from

death by virus? Is this not the question we are now trying to avoid answering?

Is it not overwhelmingly obvious at this point that Donald Trump's outrageous decisions are killing people---"on Fifth Avenue" and elsewhere?

How long will we contain our anger? How long will we use "respect for the office" as an excuse to do nothing except whine on line?

The "center WILL not hold". Things ARE "falling apart".

Maybe, just maybe. It is time to abandon the comfort of "the way things have always been done".

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What would we be willing to do if we could save, say, a million Americans from (Original Post) Atticus Mar 2020 OP
Revolution? Laelth Mar 2020 #1
Where are you getting a million from? jimfields33 Mar 2020 #2
SEE: Atticus Mar 2020 #3
That was changed. The guy from England walked that back jimfields33 Mar 2020 #4
Believe what you wish. Neither of us knows who is correct. I do note that you Atticus Mar 2020 #6
It's very possible. Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #7
I didn't read the article from CD you posted but I'm curious defacto7 Mar 2020 #5
Grab 4 specific SOBs and take them out back to cuff them and stuff them? Brainfodder Mar 2020 #8

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. Revolution?
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 09:28 AM
Mar 2020

Sanders couldn’t even get a revolution at the ballot box. No. The American people remain relatively complacent. A revolution would be the only way to get Trump out of office before January 2021, and I don’t see that happening.

We will, however, have our mini-revolution in November. Then, we shall see what we see.

-Laelth

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
6. Believe what you wish. Neither of us knows who is correct. I do note that you
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 01:28 PM
Mar 2020

did not provide a link re: the "walk back", but that's ok. One has only to use Google to find several authorities discussing the possibility of one million-plus American deaths. They are not all "irresponsible".

Turin_C3PO

(13,650 posts)
7. It's very possible.
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 01:30 PM
Mar 2020

Probably not going to happen but it could. If the curve stays exponential, then the numbers are going to be massive.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
5. I didn't read the article from CD you posted but I'm curious
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 11:25 AM
Mar 2020

how it compares to the death rate in China which has fairly well stablized at 4 to 4.1% as I calculate it from the stats. Considering their draconian measures to contain the thing that we will never approach, our death rate will assuredly be higher. How does the one million figure compare? I purposly don't want to read the link, I'd rather hear your argument.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
8. Grab 4 specific SOBs and take them out back to cuff them and stuff them?
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 01:39 PM
Mar 2020

For starters.... into a van.....

Now next....

4 separated assholes never to see one another, but screams, oh yeah fully available.

I can't continue because the rest of this is XXXX rated.

In summary, there would not be any trace of them found . VANISHED!

Bonus, made them all sing like perfectly beautiful songbirds, and whoa it is 10x worse than we thought!

Hell 2.0 on the way for all of themz SOBs!



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