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Thank you. If I were a believer, I could think that they are my burden to bear in order to get into heaven.

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Didn't mean to make you sad!

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I sincerely hope you are right. I tend toward the cynical and pessimistic.

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Focused on "... the cost-effectiveness of diagnostics." In other words, as little as possible.

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Everyone has to make sacrifices during a crisis, regardless of how odious they may be.

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Is there a website yet that is comparing Covid deaths to Republican voting margins? I would really like to calm my anxiety by reading some of those stats.

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Same. *stabby*

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Go, Ankeny! I'll tell Mom; she has 2 family members who live in that general area. Yay!

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Moi aussi. Thanks, Tacos!

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Absolutely true. I will note, however, that the pre-News Corp version used to publish a fair number of critiques of their editorial stances in the letter section, whereas now they seem to prefer the mega-ditto approach.

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But he did graduate from Harvard Medical School, so he's a real ad for the Ivies, like Ted Cruz or Tom Cotton.say you know who else went to yale and harvard law?

ron desantis

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The airline industry and FAA do the same calculations. Feel safer?

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Plus, continue the labor shortage that affecting all sectors of the US labor market.

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Yep, but that may predate even me. I just recall frequent use in those old Crumb cartoons.

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Did they go to an accredited college?

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When a doctor who is appointed as state surgeon general prioritizes his boss's political messaging over public health, he is no longer a doctor, but a Soviet-style apparatchik.

https://youtu.be/u4xCbtkJht0

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