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Breaking news: Idiots say something stupid.
“There’s nobody around here that’s got it,” Powell said. “We’re a farming community. We know how to wash our hands. We’re with pigs and cows and chickens. In this community, it’s really hard to comprehend.”
When those rural citizens get sick I certainly hope they don’t plan to use the hospitals in Chicago for treatment
Also the patience of Jobe . What do you think about Dr Oz
Please rural counties. Do us a favor.
Please, Please let her go down Sides with Dump over her state as usual
Damn all those other, more numerous voters for outnumbering me!
lol
Lets have all major cities also do this /eyeroll. Have all the cities in Texas become their own mini states.
How about we first make DC and PR a state.
We need the big guns, AK.
The down state hospital systems are very fragile at baseline. They would easily be overwhelmed by the pandemic without social distancing.
That chimp is replicating faster than Coronovirus at a rural-county church service.
“And they infected two friends…”
There’s nobody around here that’s got it,” Powell said. “We’re a farming community. We know how to wash our hands. We’re with pigs and cows and chickens. In this community, it’s really hard to comprehend.”
Hard to comprehend because you’ve never seen a bus before. If your pigs, cows and chickens just got off the “L”, they’d give it to you soon enough.
rest of the state is being forced to deal with Chicago’s problem
That “problem” is eating your damn pigs.
Weak move by the rural counties.
“Where two or three are gathered in My name, Covid 19 spreads.” – 2 Corinthians with a Cough
The situation sucks for everybody but jobs, the economy, everything material can be replaced, fixed, restored once this crisis has passed. Lost lives can’t. Shaking your fist at centers of power during a crisis might be fun and cathartic but if you’ve lost somebody to this new virus and/or even listened to somebody talk about their experiences, you’d probably have a better understanding how serious things really are right now.
The University of Chicago is responsible for benefits the “rural counties” are ignorant of and beneficiaries of.
thank you…
