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captain queeg

(10,086 posts)
2. Rich folks are assuming they'll be cared for.
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:29 PM
Mar 2020

If it gets bad enough that’s not going to be true and they will be genuinely shocked.

Phoenix61

(16,992 posts)
14. Yep! They don't get that sometimes there
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:58 PM
Mar 2020

is nothing docs can do. I don’t think they understand this disease. Even with excellent care people, young and old, die. Sometimes money doesn’t solve the problem.

Demsrule86

(68,456 posts)
5. That is not really true...half the new cases are 20 to 50ish
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:31 PM
Mar 2020

There is a child on a ventilator in Georgia...two teachers also in Georgia in their 30's...husband and wife both on life support.

dotism

(68 posts)
11. Nothing to add...
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:39 PM
Mar 2020

Seeing that Warren gif in your signature brought tears to my eyes... For real.

An honest answer to why she is not our candidate will forever elude me.

Demsrule86

(68,456 posts)
13. She was my second choice...and It was a tough decision...she is a great lady...love her and her
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:51 PM
Mar 2020

puppy. I don't get what happened either. She was not always my second choice...her sheer guts during the primary won me over. Sen. Warren was most of the Biden supporters second choice.

RockRaven

(14,892 posts)
6. The GOP's voter base is old. Their paymasters are the uber-rich. The uber-rich want the old to die,
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:33 PM
Mar 2020

so they don't have to pay more in taxes when/if Medicare and Social Security need saving from insolvency. It is sociopathic greed (the wealthy) directing personal self-interest (the GOP).

doc03

(35,293 posts)
7. Republicans don't give a rat's ass about old people, black people, Mexicans, abortion,
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:34 PM
Mar 2020

or even guns. They are just issues used to divide the country.

marlakay

(11,425 posts)
8. I don't think he really wants to win again
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:34 PM
Mar 2020

He is just going along like last time to make money for his businesses. I think he is trying to save his properties before he leaves.

He has never looked happy doing this, I think why he is so crass and awful he is hoping to lose.

I see all these things about him not leaving, I think he is counting the days. Sure he isn’t saying that because he has to keep his base to make money after he is out.

pat_k

(9,313 posts)
9. But he'd get to claim he saved social security and medicare.
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:35 PM
Mar 2020

Kill off 20% to 30% of recipients and bob's your uncle.

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