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In reply to the discussion: Is anybody else still struggling with the fact that this is *real*? [View all]Trueblue Texan
(2,451 posts)164. Way worse than 9-11
This virus has shut down the entire world and its economies. We have never had anything like this. We don't know what is to come and it is important that we stay awake so that we can help steer our direction into a truly kinder and more accountable system of economies and society.
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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