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Towlie

(5,322 posts)
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 12:34 PM Oct 2020

Two decades after the movie Strange Days takes place, reality offers us much stranger days.

“The next 6 to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic,” expert says

Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” on Sunday that "the next six to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic.”

Vaccines won’t be available “in any meaningful way” until the third quarter of next year, he said – and even when they are, half the US population is skeptical of even taking one.


Meanwhile, in a couple of weeks we'll learn whether or not our nation has collectively gone insane.

Strange Days
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