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5X

(3,972 posts) Sat Oct 31, 2020, 07:04 AM Oct 2020

Halloween Tale

Watching the nightly news on TV...

Anchor: We hit new numbers today, over a hundred thousand infected today with a total of over 9 million.
We are approaching a quarter million dead in the US alone. We are 3 days away from an election and the
government is at a standstill.

Fade to black.

In his typical finalizing voice, Walter Cronkite comes on and says: "And that's the way it is".

the end

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Halloween Tale (Original Post) 5X Oct 2020 OP

If this was a Horror story about an epidemic sweeping the planet causing 1000's of deaths per day, Fla Dem Oct 2020 #1

Fla Dem

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1. If this was a Horror story about an epidemic sweeping the planet causing 1000's of deaths per day,