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Apr 23, 2020 08:19

More and more, the epidemiologists and the mainstream media who report on them, are saying that COVID-19 was spreading in the US "earlier than we thought", and that there were already tens of thousands of cases here in February. I've been saying this for a while now -- I don't mean to be bragging, but it is weird watching people catch up, however ( Read more... )

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real_marsel April 23 2020, 12:27:37 UTC
Do you type fast?

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kanzeon_2040 April 24 2020, 23:11:03 UTC
I learned touch typing in high school, so, yes :-)

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gonzo21 April 23 2020, 19:33:12 UTC
A very prominant conservative lord and influencer was on the today program yesterday talking about how now is probably the time for UBI, and when the country is put back to work, to remodel everything in the shape of a green new deal.

These ideas, coming from the conservative hierarchy. Indicate how serious it is I think. First open admission I suspect that they know the entire system has been broken. And they're going to need to do something quite radical.

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kanzeon_2040 April 23 2020, 23:22:36 UTC
UK conservatives are always more liberal than ours!

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gonzo21 April 23 2020, 23:37:45 UTC
Yeah, I think our conservative party is around about where your Democrats are.

or were until Boris took over, Boris was a pretty dramatic lurch to the right.

Until Coronavirus of course. And now it's paradoxically the most socialist government we've had since the 1940s.

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