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GopherGal

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4. These are people unable to learn from anyone else's experience

Reply to onecaliberal (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 15, 2021, 11:10 PM

Sep 2021

no matter how frequently repeated... They are too deficient in empathy to change their mind based upon what they can observe happening to others. It doesn't register at all until it happens to them.

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My best friend/roommate's ex husband just died... [View all] Trueblue Texan Sep 2021 OP

There is no number that will sway them. onecaliberal Sep 2021 #1

These are people unable to learn from anyone else's experience GopherGal Sep 2021 #4

It's true. Entire family wiped out, they still don't get it. onecaliberal Sep 2021 #6

No; however their influence is diminishing due to self-genocide. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #14

That is a fact. onecaliberal Sep 2021 #17

I hope your best friend is vaccinated FakeNoose Sep 2021 #2

They should be buried with their hats on Klaralven Sep 2021 #5

She lives with us... Trueblue Texan Sep 2021 #10

Corpses stacked on the sidewalks for pickup. Thomas Hurt Sep 2021 #3

One thing I wonder about is whether the survivors will ever be sufficiently angry at those who lied RockRaven Sep 2021 #7

My 24 yr old granddaughter has Covid and is vaccinated.....as is the whole family. pidge Sep 2021 #8

Vaccination will hopefully save our lives, but it can't prevent infection FakeNoose Sep 2021 #12

Thanks,great info. pidge Sep 2021 #20

best hopes for her pidge irisblue Sep 2021 #21

Thanks....she was so good to me in pidge Sep 2021 #22

It's a cult. roamer65 Sep 2021 #9

some at the last kool-aid drinking XanaDUer2 Sep 2021 #13

Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2021 #11

For hardcore believers, there's no death number convincing enough peggysue2 Sep 2021 #15

I'm sorry, TrueBlue. Incredibly sad, especially with a child losing his father. Hortensis Sep 2021 #16

sorry I've given the wrong impression.... Trueblue Texan Sep 2021 #18

Good for that, at least. So regrettable. Hortensis Sep 2021 #19