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Aussie105

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4. There's never been any choice with this virus.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 11:34 PM

Apr 2021

Take it seriously from the start, listen to the medical experts and not the politicians, put in preventative measures no matter the effect on the economy or peoples' liberties, and save lives.
And get on with the development, production and distribution of a vaccine.

There are no other choices.

Trivialize it, deny it exists, politicize the response, and you get this. Massive death tolls, over-run medical systems, mutated viruses.

I wonder how high the Brazilian death toll will go?

I wonder what the US death numbers would be now, if the response had been earlier and more comprehensive?

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Child deaths in Brazil due to virus shocking [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2021 OP

horrible Skittles Apr 2021 #1

Terrible not only because of the deaths, which is awful - Alice Kramden Apr 2021 #2

+1 JoeOtterbein Apr 2021 #3

Brazile Has A Variant DallasNE Apr 2021 #6

There's never been any choice with this virus. Aussie105 Apr 2021 #4

This is what makes me wonder... SergeStorms Apr 2021 #5

Brazil, world, several countries stats. World daily new cases hit a record abt 3 days ago (7dma) progree Apr 2021 #7