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Simeon Salus

(1,144 posts) Sun Mar 1, 2020, 03:03 PM Mar 2020

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IMHO, COVID-19 is America's Chernobyl

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

But never acceptance. It will always be somebody else's fault.

This is the price of populism. It works in peacetime, but fails in the face of war, disease, or disaster.

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IMHO, COVID-19 is America's Chernobyl (Original Post) Simeon Salus Mar 2020 OP

Huh??? braddy Mar 2020 #1

an inevitable disaster made worse by incompetence Simeon Salus Mar 2020 #2

More of a CHINESE Chernobyl Dirty Socialist Mar 2020 #3

Blame is not all the issue; blame is entirely secondary Simeon Salus Mar 2020 #4

braddy

(3,585 posts)

1. Huh???

Reply to Simeon Salus (Original post)

Sun Mar 1, 2020, 03:05 PM

Mar 2020

Simeon Salus

(1,144 posts)

2. an inevitable disaster made worse by incompetence

Reply to braddy (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 1, 2020, 03:09 PM

Mar 2020

and hubris

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)

3. More of a CHINESE Chernobyl

Reply to Simeon Salus (Original post)

Sun Mar 1, 2020, 03:18 PM

Mar 2020

Our government isn’t helping the situation much, but China should get most of the blame.

Simeon Salus

(1,144 posts)

4. Blame is not all the issue; blame is entirely secondary

Reply to Dirty Socialist (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 1, 2020, 03:21 PM

Mar 2020

Response is primary, and our response is handicapped by a man who lies about his golf game.

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