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Igel

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17. You bought into curve flattening?

Reply to ecstatic (Reply #9)

Wed May 6, 2020, 09:15 PM

May 2020

You got herd immunity in the small print of the contract you signed.

Unless a vaccine comes along first, which is a huge, huge "if".

The alternative is suppression--some have called it "crushing the curve"--leading to containment. People talk like that's going to be easy.

I'm still waiting for my flying car, it should have been here 20 years ago. Wonder if the USPS lost it?

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No need to social distance since I don't know anybody who has the coronavirus [View all] ecstatic May 2020 OP

Well, Newest Reality May 2020 #1

Darwin was right. Squinch May 2020 #6

Hard to have a positive attitude when so many PufPuf23 May 2020 #2

Longer for some than for others, I'm afraid. Grokenstein May 2020 #3

That's exactly what I thought when I saw the OP.🙄 dewsgirl May 2020 #5

They'll know someone soon! Squinch May 2020 #4

If I were a health care professional in any of the states that are opening up, and I saw this renate May 2020 #7

Hell, a nurse was out there! She thinks "herd immunity" ecstatic May 2020 #9

You bought into curve flattening? Igel May 2020 #17

Well stated, renate! TreadSoftly May 2020 #14

KCMO Mexican restaurants were packed. leftyladyfrommo May 2020 #8

It is amazing. The same people who vote for people that would Blue_true May 2020 #16

I am from there genxlib May 2020 #10

lol. Good catch with the Q sign. ecstatic May 2020 #20

"six feet means many things to different people" 0rganism May 2020 #11

ridiculous... agingdem May 2020 #12

smh. nt ecstatic May 2020 #21

There's a longer learning curve on COVID than one might expect. Totally Tunsie May 2020 #13

The thing is, there's no evidence that the virus respects IQ, politics, or culture. Igel May 2020 #18

The woman who talked about the models being wrong. Blue_true May 2020 #15

I'm not sure WHY we lead the world in cases and deaths JDC May 2020 #19