[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Boomer

The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population but more than 25% of global cases and also 25% of global deaths. Those numbers bother me. They are an obscenity.

To think that a deadly or life-altering disease is being politicized — for the purpose of further polarizing the country — is beyond my comprehension.

I know I won’t get an answer to this, but I have to wonder how many of the posters who keep on keepin’ on, standing in their circle, think it is “great” or even funny that quite a few of our medical people in government positions have received death threats and/or have resigned.

I am back in our home in Ohio now. We had Dr. Amy Acton as the director of the State Dept. of Health. She and the governor were receiving accolades, from voters from both parties, for how they were handling the virus, early.

Dr. Acton is from Youngstown and she is a smart and kind woman who has overcome odds that many of us cannot imagine, including having been homeless during part of her childhood.

Dr. Acton was trying to save as many Ohio lives as was possible, but she resigned when protesters showed up at her house, carrying signs that said such things as, “No Violence — Yet” and some of the angry, very angry, were carrying AK-47s.

Dr. Acton is Jewish so of course, there were anti-Semitic signs and shouts, too.

So now, this is what “Proud to be an American” is supposed to mean???

I wish those who insist upon inundating TOTV with incendiary thread-starts — with the agenda of diminishing the seriousness of the virus — day after day after day — would look up Amy Acton and see how her story makes them feel. (How I wish I did not already know the answer to that.)

Boomer

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How in the world did we ever get to the point where "strength/toughness" is measured by not wearing a mask during a pandemic of this magnitude, endangering others around you...and being totally selfish/uncaring toward your fellow American citizens?

Please, oh please, wake me up...from this nightmare.

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