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captain queeg

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4. You could add up all the other countries on the chart, with far higher total population

Reply to EleanorR (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2020, 04:44 PM

Jul 2020

And we’d still be far out ahead of them. And everyone else’s cases are dropping while ours are increasing.

It’s pretty obvious there’s a large part of our population engaged in magical thinking and won’t believe any of this till it happens to them or their family. At the rate we are going soon everyone will know someone who have gotten sick. And the economic impacts have really not shown up in the magnitude that’s coming.

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Excellent visual from Biden- It didn't have to be this bad. [View all] EleanorR Jul 2020 OP

K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Jul 2020 #1

Holy shit cp Jul 2020 #2

You don't believe it disappeared after 15 cases? LakeArenal Jul 2020 #3

Pessimist central scrutinizer Jul 2020 #5

That's what I heard. LakeArenal Jul 2020 #7

Trump had better move the "Over" target up to Thanksgiving. We are going to blow Blue_true Jul 2020 #18

🤞🏼🙏🏻🥂🇺🇸 LakeArenal Jul 2020 #21

You could add up all the other countries on the chart, with far higher total population captain queeg Jul 2020 #4

Germany has something like 100 million fewer people than us, and they are Blue_true Jul 2020 #19

I hope that's a TV ad. - n/t Jim__ Jul 2020 #6

great graphic RussBLib Jul 2020 #8

They could make big bucks on DVDs of that one. 47of74 Jul 2020 #9

Soundtrack is done. Mopar151 Jul 2020 #13

Agree - Brazil and other high-count countries should be there. Otherwise it's cherry-picking. erronis Jul 2020 #23

Wow moose65 Jul 2020 #10

Preach! calimary Jul 2020 #11

USA! We're number ONE!!! yuiyoshida Jul 2020 #12

Biden should redo this and say it in the present tense. BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #14

It's bad and I'm afraid it'll get worse mountain grammy Jul 2020 #15

This is horrifying. Tommymac Jul 2020 #16

Where are qwlauren35 Jul 2020 #17

If you look at the graphic, it said something about the countries on the chart. Blue_true Jul 2020 #20

Where it ends up, there's no "Kung Flu". CaptYossarian Jul 2020 #22

K&R UTUSN Jul 2020 #24

For all the 'But Chinaaa! But Indiaaaaa!! comments' Lancero Jul 2020 #25

Please keep in mind warmfeet Jul 2020 #26

trump is a deadly FAilure.. excellent from Joe Biden! Rt Cha Jul 2020 #27

K & R... thanks for posting, pass this on...kick for visability.. Stuart G Jul 2020 #28