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This is not what is happening though, I don't know if "they" learned from this but they are slowly opening up big by bit adjusting to the current situation. There is also consequences of the shutdown that might overshadow the damage of the coronavirus. So its not just either or.
Dark-blue
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Apr 19, 2020
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consequences? Care to elaborate?
@LenHazell53 Suicides and bad health go up both on short term and long term as people loose their livelyhood and ability to sustain themself.
@Dark-blue Thanks I genuinely was not sure what you were refering to, appreciate the answer.
"Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It, first as tragedy then as farce."
Variations on this phrase date back as 600 BCE, but are most famously recalled as being by
Edmund Burke
George Santayana
Karl Marx
Kurt Vonnegut (in parody)
Jesse Ventura
LenHazell53
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Apr 19, 2020
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Geeze, the general public is stupid. How have we gotten even this far?
Freespirit64
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Apr 19, 2020
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Sheer weight of numbers
@LenHazell53 much like rats and other vermin...?
Look at what we are, smart to do things like manufacturing, stupid in politics and economics.
LenHazell53
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Apr 19, 2020
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I always thought we were free to do things until we started to hurt someone else. Doing that is illegal, though probably not prosecutable.
@dalefvictor there is usually a workaround, religious freedom , the second amendment, people are so in love with their perceived right to be a nasty fool
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