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Old 08-03-2021, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
What next?

A bunch of people die, everyone else either gets the virus or doesn't. It mutates some more, a bunch of people get sick with a variety of symptoms, some worse than others. Maybe a few people get stuck on ventilators for the rest of their lives, a couple have to get a lung removed.

Meanwhile, everyone else just carries on and lives their lives. Except without their daughter, who's dead from the virus. And without money since it's all sunk into 24/7 nursing care to keep their 40-year-old dad alive. And without their son, who came down with really bad symptoms but didn't take any precautions, and spread it to his best friend, who died of the disease. Sonny committed suicide because he couldn't live with the guilt.

Maybe some families were left intact, no losses, huzzah! But their neighbors have stopped being neighborly, their cousins are now avoiding close contact because THEY have lost friends and neighbors...a few schools have had to make adjustments because some teachers are now dead, so your kids are being educated by a new batch of teachers who have no prior experience...

You have a new mailman now, and he doesn't know that you need the mail put through the doggie door instead of the mail box over the doorbell, because some whacko down the street steals the circulars for coupons...

That's what's next. That is the new world coming. Just a few more dead people. No big deal right?
All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Sometimes there is deep wisdom in nursery rhymes that are very old.

Sometimes there is NO answer to huge problems.

You CAN lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

Not everyone is given at birth all the same abilities to perceive and understand.

We are all created valuable, (at least in MY philosophy) but we are not all created equal.

And again, Sometimes no matter how much thinkers think, and the worlds thinkers are all focused on this problem, and just like Climate Change/Global Warming, there is nothing at this time that can immediately and effectively make things better. If there were, it would be happening.
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