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The NY Times Editorial Board begs for badly needed leadership from Orange Hitler.

But I fear and prepare for the worst and so should you. nytimes.com/2020/03/24/opi…
Let’s just say, now is the time to become as self-reliant as you can.

Now is the time to form mutual aid networks, get to know your neighbors, etc.
Now is the time to work out contingency plans for what you’ll do if the hospital can’t help you.

Now is the time to learn to reuse as many things as possible, to make food stretch as long as it can, etc.
I mean, here we go:

He probably cannot be moved; I don’t know why the NY Times even bothered to try.
How can a man who has never heard the word “no,” never had to work for anything a day in his life, never suffered, never went without... how can a man like that be expected to accept the fact that a disaster is coming and he has to do something?

He is simply NOT capable of it.
Survival instinct is something that only those who have suffered have.

Those who have been poor.

Those who have been discriminated against.

Those who have been abused.

Those who have mental health issues.

Etc., etc
If everything in your life came easily and you’ve never read a book about anything, much less epidemiology, why would you NOT believe that everything is somehow magically going to be fine?
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