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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

I appreciate the prayers. I pray for the end of the pandemic every morning, too.

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

I appreciate the prayers. I pray for the end of the pandemic every morning, too.

You are thinking so much bigger than I was. I was just praying for your recovery. I'll join you in praying for an end and I'll pass the word on to others.

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

I hear the words Deadly Pandemic thrown out regarding COVID 19 all the time. I have a question that might be sensitive, but I don't know a single person who has died from it. I know Bruce who came close and a girl I collaborate with from another agency who got it and had what amounted to a bad cold from it.
If it's a deadly Pandemic shouldn't I know somebody who died from it? Is there anybody of us who actually knows somebody who died from it. Am I just lucky that nobody I know has died from it?

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

I hear the words Deadly Pandemic thrown out regarding COVID 19 all the time. I have a question that might be sensitive, but I don't know a single person who has died from it. I know Bruce who came close and a girl I collaborate with from another agency who got it and had what amounted to a bad cold from it.
If it's a deadly Pandemic shouldn't I know somebody who died from it? Is there anybody of us who actually knows somebody who died from it. Am I just lucky that nobody I know has died from it?

Better question for you to ask yourself, but also kind of sensitive: "If I'm not a self-absorbed solipsist who thinks things only matter if they directly affect me, would I see the world differently? Would I be able to understand that myriad meaningful, impactful, profound things can happen in the world that have nothing to do with me, and/or do not directly affect me?"

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

I hear the words Deadly Pandemic thrown out regarding COVID 19 all the time. I have a question that might be sensitive, but I don't know a single person who has died from it. I know Bruce who came close and a girl I collaborate with from another agency who got it and had what amounted to a bad cold from it.
If it's a deadly Pandemic shouldn't I know somebody who died from it? Is there anybody of us who actually knows somebody who died from it. Am I just lucky that nobody I know has died from it?

Better question for you to ask yourself, but also kind of sensitive: "If I'm not a self-absorbed solipsist who thinks things only matter if they directly affect me, would I see the world differently? Would I be able to understand that myriad meaningful, impactful, profound things can happen in the world that have nothing to do with me, and/or do not directly affect me?"

Bohumm nice word solipsist. I never heard it before and won't be looking it up. I asked the question to see if it was affecting anybody else I know like you for example. Asking the question was my way of not being self absorbed. This is being called a Deadly Pandemic. It is pretty much being made to be the equivalent of the Bubonic Plague. I'm just trying to get a better understanding on just how deadly it is in a 2nd hand way, by discussing it with board members. I used the word sensitive, because if you or somebody else does know somebody who has died from it you may not want to share it. However, if people are willing to discuss it then it will help me understand the impact better. A bunch of numbers are far less impactful than actual people I know sharing the impact it has had on their lives.

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

I hear the words Deadly Pandemic thrown out regarding COVID 19 all the time. I have a question that might be sensitive, but I don't know a single person who has died from it. I know Bruce who came close and a girl I collaborate with from another agency who got it and had what amounted to a bad cold from it.
If it's a deadly Pandemic shouldn't I know somebody who died from it? Is there anybody of us who actually knows somebody who died from it. Am I just lucky that nobody I know has died from it?

Better question for you to ask yourself, but also kind of sensitive: "If I'm not a self-absorbed solipsist who thinks things only matter if they directly affect me, would I see the world differently? Would I be able to understand that myriad meaningful, impactful, profound things can happen in the world that have nothing to do with me, and/or do not directly affect me?"

Bohumm nice word solipsist. I never heard it before and won't be looking it up. I asked the question to see if it was affecting anybody else I know like you for example. Asking the question was my way of not being self absorbed. This is being called a Deadly Pandemic. It is pretty much being made to be the equivalent of the Bubonic Plague. I'm just trying to get a better understanding on just how deadly it is in a 2nd hand way, by discussing it with board members. I used the word sensitive, because if you or somebody else does know somebody who has died from it you may not want to share it. However, if people are willing to discuss it then it will help me understand the impact better. A bunch of numbers are far less impactful than actual people I know sharing the impact it has had on their lives.

You seek to understand, but not at the level of effort required to look up a word online. "I want knowledge, but make it easier than highlighting a single word on a computer screen, right-clicking, and moving ALLLLLLLLLLLL the way to another tab or window. I...I....I....I just can't..."

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

KG - (and I find myself having the same conversation with you on two threads) - think of the words "Yet" and "So far."

You don't know anyone who has died from it YET. The number of dead in the U.S. is 153,000 SO FAR.

The level of contagion from this virus is over-the-top, so, left unchallenged, all of the numbers of dead and dying will shoot up like a rocket. I imagine in the early stages of the Bubonic Plague, there were people asking what the big deal was? "I don't know anyone who has it, therefore it must not qualify as deadly."

You're looking at this through a paper towel cardboard tube and completely ignoring the trajectory. If you want to catch a baseball, do you only focus on it when it leaves the other guy's hands? Because if you do it's going to bonk you on the head.

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

Pretty sure the Bubonic plague wiped out entire villages and towns leaving no one alive in it's wake.

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom



So far not one person on this board has acknowledged knowing even one person who has died from it.

< Message edited by kgdabom -- 7/31/2020 11:03:27 AM >

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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Pretty sure the Bubonic plague wiped out entire villages and towns leaving no one alive in it's wake.

Exactly. That was a deadly pandemic. Is COVID-19 a deadly pandemic? Like Lynn said it's a question of how you define it. Bill do you know anybody who has died from COVID-19?

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

Pretty sure the Bubonic plague wiped out entire villages and towns leaving no one alive in it's wake.

Exactly. That was a deadly pandemic. Is COVID-19 a deadly pandemic? Like Lynn said it's a question of how you define it. Bill do you know anybody who has died from COVID-19?

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom



So far not one person on this board has acknowledged knowing even one person who has died from it.

< Message edited by kgdabom -- 7/31/2020 11:03:27 AM >

Don't forget that not all of the people who have died are Americans. This is causing death all over the world, so it may not be surprising if some of us here don't personally know anyone who has died of it, because many of those people used to (I say that because they are dead now) live in Italy, or Brazil, or China, or France, or Australia ...

Look at the numbers all over the world and then argue that it's not deadly enough to qualify.

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

Bruce

What area of the country do you live? We were try to get any info we could when you were in the hospital. I think one poster found the hospital you were at and i googled it, somewhere in Florida?

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

Pretty sure the Bubonic plague wiped out entire villages and towns leaving no one alive in it's wake.

Exactly. That was a deadly pandemic. Is COVID-19 a deadly pandemic? Like Lynn said it's a question of how you define it. Bill do you know anybody who has died from COVID-19?

I also said to focus on the words "yet" and "so far." We're seven months into this thing and you're calling it done? There is absolutely NO indication that this thing is over. Again, every plague or pandemic starts with just a smattering of deaths here and there. Scientists understand things like transmission and cures. Covid 19 has one of the most aggressive means of transmission in all viruses, and there is no cure.