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DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:28 PM May 2020

Who Will Pay For The Ventilators / Intensive Care For The Crowd In Missouri - Alabama ?

When the 2nd wave hits there will be billions / trillions in additional health care costs. It could be avoided if the hordes of dumbasses didn't act like idiots, encouraged by the Grim Reaper in the White House. If the economy doesn't "open up" it will be in the tank come election time, and that is all that matters to Donald Death. And wearing a mask is a personal choice. Well I chose to not pay for the doctors for the non-mask wearers, and their friends.

We all know what is coming.

Who is volunteering to pay for the tens of thousands of sick people who ignore science and act all suicidal?

Definitely not Mitch, and his gang of thieves.

We can always borrow more trillions right?

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Who Will Pay For The Ventilators / Intensive Care For The Crowd In Missouri - Alabama ? (Original Post) DanieRains May 2020 OP
At the risk of sounding jaded, who cares about them? Srkdqltr May 2020 #1
Exactly! PJMcK May 2020 #3
Those nifty Suthin'-style folding fans work really well, TheCowsCameHome May 2020 #2

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
3. Exactly!
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:52 PM
May 2020

Sorry, but I'm having a great deal of difficulty understanding why people are going out into public and not practicing social distancing and using masks!

When I went to school, we studied biology, chemistry and physics. These branches of Science are actually not separate but together create the full spectrum of our understanding of the Universe. In biology, we learned the difference between bacteria and viruses. Thanks to Mirriam-Webster, here's a simple description of the distinction between the two:

While both can cause disease, viruses are not living organisms, whereas bacteria are. Viruses are only "active" within host cells which they need to reproduce, while bacteria are single-celled organisms that produce their own energy and can reproduce on their own.


In order to defeat viruses, we need to isolate them, discover their properties and then, hopefully, develop a vaccine. This is very complicated science and it takes a lot of time and brain-power to accomplish. Until that goal is reached, all of humanity is susceptible to infection.

Any fool who goes out into public without protecting themselves will have earned their illness and possibly their Darwin Award.

Like Trump, they're idiots.
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