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(9,287 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Obesity, diabetes, poor diet.
Hallmarks of the poor southern states.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)thesquanderer
(11,993 posts)...and they would still give Trump the same number of electoral votes if Trump got the votes of more than half the survivors.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)These rubes think the Dukes of Hazzard was a documentary. I've driven through the south. No wonder they're religious.
erronis
(15,355 posts)So apt.
They also probably think Apollo 13 was a fantasy.... Oh, wait.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)No. 4 on the obesity list with a GOP governor who won't tell us to stay home.
Woo-hoo!
DarleenMB
(408 posts)Just because we have an idiot in the Governor's mansion doesn't mean we're all brain dead. I went into self-isolation almost a month ago. Most of my friends have done the same.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)My house mate hasn't left the house since she got back from Dallas 3 weeks ago. I've been out for groceries once a week, been to doctor's office for routine check and went to my quarantined daughter's once for her birthday. She has been hiding out with her boys since schools closed.
And each time I left my shoes outside, changed clothes and showered upon my return. Maybe too much but I don't care. Next time I go out I'll wear a mask. So far, only reported 1 case in town. We've decided it may be better our hospital is closed, because the sick won't be coming to town.
It's ridiculous we must do this, but I, remember The Andromeda Strain, The Omega Man, The Stand, etc. which make me properly paranoid. Maybe we can survive despite the Criminals in DC & Little Rock.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,782 posts)gademocrat7
(10,672 posts)The rethugs own this lock, stock and barrel.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)" PPE . . . being confiscated by U S Customs . . . "
AYFKM ???????
I had NOT read this or seen it. This is without legal precedent.
Ninga
(8,277 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)BKDem
(1,733 posts)But it took official Republican stupidity to make actually it happen.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Ad Infinitum
(74 posts)This might not have been a plot
But it is unfolding like a movie screenplay
surreal/ all too real.
Never waste an opportunity to weaken the body politic
This is a rolling slow motion coup.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to decimate Democratic states.
Aussie105
(5,437 posts)A few years ago, any writer who brought this scenario to a movie studio would have been rejected as it being too far out there, too fanciful.
Now, you are living it. It would be a documentary, not another 'end of the world as we know it' film.
calimary
(81,507 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)CNN tweeted:
Eight US governors have decided against issuing statewide directives urging their residents to stay at home as the outbreak of the coronavirus escalates and spreads across the country, the last holdouts in the nation. https://cnn.it/3bRkgNy
Seth Abramson replied:
Never forget that, at every level of governmentlocal, state, federalit was Republican officials who made the decisions that cost lives during this outbreak. And it was religious zealots on the far right who systematically disobeyed stay-at-home orders and endangered all of us.
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tblue37
(65,490 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,145 posts)Those same states didnt expand Medicaid for their most vulnerable because they dont want a functioning govt.