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In reply to the discussion: My parents live in The Villages in Florida. [View all]Wounded Bear
(58,904 posts)3. Same thing happening/happened here, sort of...
I live in a Senior Housing apartment. They shut down all "organized activities" several weeks ago, but the usual group was down in the common room, playing cards like nothing was changed. That went on for about a week or so until the office finally shut and locked the door to the room. The smokers still go out to the shack in the center of the parking lot to burn one as a group, 4-6 of them sitting in a 5-10 foot hut. Not sure how they could lock that. Good stuff, eh? Smoking in a group with the most contagious respiratory virus in recent history out there.
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I'm shaking my head. They're putting lots of others at risk here with this behavior. NT
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2020
#1
are they conservative?, I think that portion of the population follows trump and his advice
Demonaut
Mar 2020
#8
Uggh... Nearly all are Trumpsters there. I love the guy who single-handedly protests Trump when
hlthe2b
Mar 2020
#17
That's one of the last things we need is for our security infrastructure....
KY_EnviroGuy
Mar 2020
#37
I thought about communities like the Villages when I first heard about this virus...
spanone
Mar 2020
#31
If it were not for thousand of old, white upper middle class republicans moving here every year,
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#38
Thanks, I couldn't stand to open the link to it. Too much unnerving stuff right now.
KY_EnviroGuy
Mar 2020
#45