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In reply to the discussion: I am at my dads house - he does NOT believe in the Coronavirus. [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,395 posts)60. I came home early from a birthday trip
and found this email from UNC Health about coronavirus.
Tell him a real scientist keeps an open mind while data is coming in, and the data about coronavirus is still pouring in because it is novel.
https://e.unchealthcare.org/acton/rif/16477/s-00e5-2003/-/l-00ab:3e8a2/l-00ab/showPreparedMessage?sid=TV2:ObbR8SL5L
If he wants to ignore data, that's his choice, but he raised you to believe in science, so you're going with your head on this and keeping an open mind and paying attention to the data.
You might see if you can interest him in following the data that Johns Hopkins is mapping.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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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