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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Please don't call this very serious thing a "Great Folk Scare". Yesterday had FAR more deaths from Covid-19 in Sumter County than any other day by far. Thirty people died in Sumter County yesterday. One of them was someone we had known for ten years. The virus is now much more contagious. We are planning to stay away from gatherings until we have both shots. I hope all of you will realize that the hospital here and in Leesburg are maxed out. Seventy people hospitalized with Covid-19. PLEASE all be careful. This is deadly serious.
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Hi Gracie. Very sorry to hear of your loss. We, too, have lost people we knew well. One note, please if I may. The OP was not referring to Covid as "The Great Folk Scare". In her 2012 memoir, “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music,” Judy Collins whimsically refers to the era of her emergence as “the great folk scare.” In the 1960s, on the heels of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and The Weavers, a flood of folk artists broke into the musical mainstream. I would be surprised if that was not his reference in the post. Hope you and yours are doing OK.
B.