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applegrove

(118,696 posts) Sat May 2, 2020, 04:36 PM May 2020

Flashback Quote of the Day

Flashback Quote of the Day

May 2, 2020 at 10:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/02/flashback-quote-of-the-day-76/

"SNIP.....

“I think a pandemic might do it. Something that could affect millions of people indiscriminately and from which you could not insulate yourself even if you were rich.”

— Author Michael Lewis, quoted by the Observer, when asked in December 2019 what it would take for America to want a leader who understood the importance of scientific knowledge.

......SNIP"

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Flashback Quote of the Day (Original Post) applegrove May 2020 OP

The truth is that wealth can minimize your chance of getting the virus. Chainfire May 2020 #1

True. nt applegrove May 2020 #2

It is not certain that a pandemic is going to do it. kentuck May 2020 #3

Chainfire

(17,553 posts)

1. The truth is that wealth can minimize your chance of getting the virus.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2020, 04:57 PM

May 2020

Wealthy people have a lot more options than poor people. If you are wealthy you do not have to decide whether to eat and pay the rent or risk you life at work. Of course, any wealthy person that wants to play Russian roulette with the virus share the same risks, but it is a matter of choice not necessity.

applegrove

(118,696 posts)

2. True. nt

Reply to Chainfire (Reply #1)

Sat May 2, 2020, 05:02 PM

May 2020

kentuck

(111,104 posts)

3. It is not certain that a pandemic is going to do it.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2020, 06:19 PM

May 2020

Some of them believe it was all a "natural disaster".

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