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Phoenix61

(18,812 posts) Fri Jun 19, 2020, 03:06 PM Jun 2020

Lightening vs Covid [View all]

The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000.
Yet I bet the same people who refuse to wear a mask get out of the pool during a lightening storm.

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Lightening vs Covid [View all] Phoenix61 Jun 2020 OP

You're supposed to get out of the pool to get inside. Throck Jun 2020 #1

There is one big difference in your analogy lapfog_1 Jun 2020 #2

Unless, of course, their were a goverment order to stay out of the pool Silent3 Jun 2020 #3

I also bet tazkcmo Jun 2020 #4

Some stay on golf courses after lightning alarms unc70 Jun 2020 #5

to be clear, you can't climb out of a bad gene pool. milestogo Jun 2020 #6

Bwhaaaaa! Phoenix61 Jun 2020 #7

I thought this was gonna' be a thread reporting that Dumpus was recommending fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #8

I thought it was the Tulsa magat campers soothsayer Jun 2020 #9