#4546487 - 11/29/20 04:25 PM
Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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JohnnyChemo
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This year sucks.
My mother-in-law, who has been battling leukemia for the last couple of years, passed away on Friday from COVID.
Today it's my Dad's turn.
My sister-in-law is in the hospital with it, and she is not doing well either. She's been told she will be getting better, as there will be no more dying allowed this year.
My wife and I are beside ourselves, and our kids are being put through the ringer as well. 2020 can die in a fire.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.” -Robert Heinlein
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#4546497 - 11/29/20 05:42 PM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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I'm very sorry for your losses, you and your family are in my prayers.
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#4546500 - 11/29/20 06:07 PM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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I'm sorry JohnnyChemo. When I read the title my first thought was to post some amusing meme, that seems very trite now from what you described. Stay positive, as much as you can, and my thoughts are with you, your wife, and your children.
"They might look the same, but they don't taste the same."
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#4546514 - 11/29/20 08:03 PM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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Sorry to hear Johnny...hang in there.
F$ck Cancer.....F$ck 2020
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#4546521 - 11/29/20 08:58 PM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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My condolences.
Living in a country that so far has weathered the pandemic pretty well, but still losing my job because of it, it suddenly becomes rather insignificant when compared to the loss of a life. My thoughts are with you and yours.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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#4546524 - 11/29/20 10:09 PM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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As much as 2020 has sucked, I fear next year will be much worse. I certainly hope not, with vaccines on the way.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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#4546540 - 11/29/20 11:48 PM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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#4546541 - 11/29/20 11:48 PM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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Thank you all, I appreciate your good wishes.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.” -Robert Heinlein
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#4546635 - 11/30/20 07:36 PM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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My condolences JohnnyChemo. I hope your sister in law will have a speedy recovery.
When statistics transferes to real life stories, it is hard to fathom all the suffering people has endured and still do because of this pandemic.
“We are still in the age of legends. You and I will not enter the promised land. We who have begun always perish before Jericho falls.”
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#4546790 - 12/02/20 02:51 AM
Re: Can 2020 please end now? Pretty please??
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I'm sad and very sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers to you and yours.
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