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jimfields33

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2. I wish just the countries not taken it seriously would be affected,

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 14, 2021, 10:23 AM

Oct 2021

but alas, it doesn’t work that way. The United States could stop daily living and stay in the house and it still wouldn’t help unless other countries….China! Do at least a respectable amount.

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