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mobeau69

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3. Dence the oddsmaker doesn't get it.

Reply to The Blue Flower (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 06:44 PM

Mar 2020

His low odds don't mean shit if you're one who contracts it.

When my mom was having a cancer biopsy on both breasts back in the 60's my dad asked the doctor what the odds were of a malignancy. About 1 in 100 he said. Dad, trying to maintain hopefulness, replied that that was pretty good odds. The doctor then said Mr.______, it doesn't take me long to see 100 patients. Her recovery was long and much harder in those days. The cobalt treatments were excruciating painful.

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Had to do a double take on the white flag behind Dence's podium. [View all] mobeau69 Mar 2020 OP

Perfectly understandable mistake. n/t brewens Mar 2020 #1

So now it isn't a hoax? The Blue Flower Mar 2020 #2

Dence the oddsmaker doesn't get it. mobeau69 Mar 2020 #3

That's the surrender flag malaise Mar 2020 #4

LOL. That thought crossed my mind too! mobeau69 Mar 2020 #5

There's good viruses on both sides.... wait world wide wally Mar 2020 #6

And there will be lots and lots of safeinOhio Mar 2020 #7