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Algernon Moncrieff

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7. I know how much DUers hate sports analogies, but I'll make one

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 01:09 PM

Mar 2020

Football: i get the sense that instead of handing the ball off and grinding their way down the field, the administration wants to make a spectacular pass play. My sense is that they figure they can get a vaccine to market in record time or that chloroquine will bail them out.

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Question for the Hivemind - Odds of Resuming Group Activities by June 7, 2020? [View all] Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 OP

'If' we listen to the advice of honest to god experts & science over... WePurrsevere Mar 2020 #1

In many ways, I get the sense that the Governors, not the President, is leading on this one Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 #5

Yes, I think so too and some, like my gov, Cuomo, are great but... WePurrsevere Mar 2020 #15

Well-I'm seriously considering canceling a trip I had planned Alliepoo Mar 2020 #2

When's the last date you can cancel? Phoenix61 Mar 2020 #4

I cancelled a trip in July that would have involved a sizable financial commitment. Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 #6

I'm pessimistic because there's no Test/Isolate/Clean campaign, the current steps keeps people sick uponit7771 Mar 2020 #3

I know how much DUers hate sports analogies, but I'll make one Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 #7

+1, uponit7771 Mar 2020 #14

I work for my state government xmas74 Mar 2020 #8

I don't know what you do for the state Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 #9

DHSS xmas74 Mar 2020 #11

Maybe by June 7 2021... SidDithers Mar 2020 #10

No way with the non leadership we have in trump. MerryBlooms Mar 2020 #12

Very optimistic by then Polybius Mar 2020 #13