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Showing Original Post only (View all)I am at my dads house - he does NOT believe in the Coronavirus. [View all]
He is telling me that he is 81 and that he lived to be this old because He Knows what is dangerous. He believes the coronavirus is a small joke.
This is a man with 3 PhDs - he headed the Star Wars project at Sandia Labs. He seems to believe that MD's are not REAL Scientists.........
He just yelled at me telling me I was listening to conspiracy theories........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
I am at a loss at want to flee to the backyard and cry.
He does NOT watch Faux News.
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limbaugh has been calling it a hoax, overblown, another liberal scam. ask him
certainot
Mar 2020
#85
What do you want him to do that he isn't? Is he independently living, going out and mixing
Doodley
Mar 2020
#83
Likely the community where she is living will curtail trips outside, and will do
No Vested Interest
Mar 2020
#72
a physician relative told me recently that Big Foot was an alien. She learned it from
Maraya1969
Mar 2020
#16
I know someone who's a long, long-time Coast to Coast listener. He's a successful engineer.
chia
Mar 2020
#55
Does he still live in Albuquerque? I would let him continue not believing. He will be happier
Quixote1818
Mar 2020
#19
10% of the human race has been quarantined, anyone intimating this is no big deal is in denial now
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#21
Tell him if he says it one more time he gets shipped to the Life Care Center in Kirkland WA.
grantcart
Mar 2020
#22
I sincerely hope he is correct and it is nothing. But the entire nation of Italy would disagree.
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#24
my uncle is the same way...ugh...these old farts. Just wear a mask around your dad..
samnsara
Mar 2020
#58