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CrispyQ

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1. Seriously, I thought a pandemic would change everyone's mind.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu May 18, 2023, 01:55 PM

May 2023

People would see that it's important to keep the entire community healthy, even the folks you don't like, so you don't get sick! But I couldn't have been more wrong! Seen on FB:

We're going to have to retire that old phrase,
"Avoid it like the plague," cuz it turns out, we don't.

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It's time to guarantee healthcare to all Americans as a human right Bernie Sanders [View all] Uncle Joe May 2023 OP

Seriously, I thought a pandemic would change everyone's mind. CrispyQ May 2023 #1

I'll go one further: Health care is a matter of national and economic security. Grins May 2023 #2

Yes please. I will kacekwl May 2023 #3

America is not Cuba Marcus IM May 2023 #4

Apparently Cuba is forcing their people to live longer too! Uncle Joe May 2023 #5

Strange that Democratic reps support the same things for Americans that Cuba has. Sanctions remain Marcus IM May 2023 #6

What's most strange is how the Republican Party has all but given up on governing Uncle Joe May 2023 #7

How and why would Cuba scare any American? Marcus IM May 2023 #8

The emotional roots gong back to the Cold War. Uncle Joe May 2023 #9

Oh, I know. Fl. politics R and D is all about punishing Cubans in Cuba. Marcus IM May 2023 #10

I believe times are somewhat changing for the better in that regard Uncle Joe May 2023 #11

Well said. It's long past time that we caught up to the rest of the western world... Rhiannon12866 May 2023 #12

By all means, Bernie, if it's time, DO it. Hortensis May 2023 #13