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In reply to the discussion: I am at my dads house - he does NOT believe in the Coronavirus. [View all]CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)6. My husband is 83
He does not seem very concerned at all.
He thinks he's seen it all in life.
Maybe he has.
However, I have not and do not pretend to.
I was there when AIDS appeared in San Francisco in 1979 and I sure remember the way that situation was handled!
Many died before anyone was able to discover what was going on.
It was too late ... 80% of the gay men in S.F. were seropositive by the time it gathered the attention and precautions that were necessary to contain it.
Hang-in there!!
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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