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In reply to the discussion: Is anybody else still struggling with the fact that this is *real*? [View all]Alacritous Crier
(3,825 posts)80. Aye. -- nt
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Is anybody else still struggling with the fact that this is *real*? [View all]
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
OP
Somewhat, but I already knew in November 2016 that things were gonna get bad and prepared for it
ansible
Mar 2020
#8
Saw this in January, I hope the country survives, just went out to a store, the clerks are sweet
Demonaut
Mar 2020
#20
My life has seemed unreal from the moment Trump was declared winner of the election.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Mar 2020
#70
On election night of 2016, when you got that deep empty feeling in your gut....
kentuck
Mar 2020
#27
I told my younger sister after the election that, if we were lucky, we would only be hurt
johnthewoodworker
Mar 2020
#81
I remember watching the returns and the nausea hitting me around 9 p.m., followed by
Totally Tunsie
Mar 2020
#144
We are all Vietnamese now. I was watching a documentary on giant American bombers
BamaRefugee
Mar 2020
#31
Kind of. I see the projections of infections and deaths and it's hard to appreciate the magnitude.
Politicub
Mar 2020
#40
My wife is a nurse on the COVID-19 floor at a mid-sized hospital in Northern California.
enki23
Mar 2020
#41
God bless your wife and all other health care workers who are putting their lives on the line
totodeinhere
Mar 2020
#177
I don't trust what Trump tells us, but this is real. Some of my contacts are hospitalized.
KSNY
Mar 2020
#45
You can bet the Republicans are not spending all their time managing the crisis.
Kablooie
Mar 2020
#51
One thing that's so frustrating is that I'm completely useless in all of this.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#52
Everything you said, VO. What's also surreal is that my work life is completely normal.
flibbitygiblets
Mar 2020
#53
I have, even as a nurse. I was thinking it'd be nice to go somewhere it isn't
uppityperson
Mar 2020
#54
i watched only one episode of "The Walking Dead" and now they populate my dreams!
PWPippinesq
Mar 2020
#58
It is uncharted territory. I have had thoughts and plans that would not have entered my mind
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2020
#61
China bought the rest of the world a lot of time with their containment measures.
Pobeka
Mar 2020
#76
No you're not weird. It's real. It's here. Do what you can, don't worry bout what you can't do
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2020
#75
I live in a small rural town. It became real to me when I went to get groceries last weekend and
lynintenn
Mar 2020
#79
My adult son with autism who lives in a group home has been quarantined all week
kimbutgar
Mar 2020
#87
I'm a history nut, I've studied pandemics over the years & if there is one thing I have always
yaesu
Mar 2020
#94
After waiting out the horror of the last 3 yrs, for it to conclude this way would make anyone weird.
ancianita
Mar 2020
#117
I think of Anne Frank in her annex. She wrote that she still thought people good. She emerged
emmaverybo
Mar 2020
#129
I've been trying to get my head around, something like a 1930's Depression and its
empedocles
Mar 2020
#134
I thought 9/11 would probably end up being the defining game changing, cataclysmic...
ClusterFreak
Mar 2020
#165
Yes. Definitely a feeling of unreality. Especially when I consider this lasting at least months.
highplainsdem
Mar 2020
#172