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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The US Likely Has 8 YearsAt MostBefore Crisis
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:02:08 -0500
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On 7/21/2025 10:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:08:29 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
>> 	They are doing wrong and wearing masks to avoid retaliation.  But the
>> epidemic
>> is still around but only us older people are dying as i know.  But i
>> wear a mask when
>> ourside to catch a bit of the pollen and other allergens circulating. If
>> I start to cough,
>> usually from allergy, it helps the other oeople near me on the bus to relax.
>>   The climate in San Francisco is suited to have many blooming plants
>> all year long.
>> The city is always building or repairing and dust is an ever-present
>> problem.
> 
> Hmmm. I haven't heard of any COVID deaths in at least two years. (My
> wife died in March 2022 and her death certificate said COVID solely on
> the basis of a non-authorized (by me) post mortem COVID test that
> tested positive though there were no other symptoms. My GP said that
> based on my description that it sounded to him more like a cardiac
> though he knew that some heart attacks he knew of were of recovered
> COVID patients who it was believed had had their natural defences
> weakened as a result of COVID.
> 
> I do see people wearing masks but certainly nowhere near the numbers
> we all saw in 2020-2021.

My 86 year old father just passed away two weeks ago from an inoperable 
ruptured gall bladder.  It was not covid related even he had had covid 
twice that I know of.

Lynn