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Initech

(100,114 posts)
2. Oh yeah. There would be shark deniers and truthers.
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:11 AM
May 2020

There would be people going on Fox News claiming that the shark attacks were a liberal media hoax. Alex Jones would be showing up at protests in his armored tank screaming at governors to open beaches. Rush Limbaugh would be daring you to get in the water because it's your patriotic duty as a red blooded American!

PCIntern

(25,612 posts)
3. Yes. No question.
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:12 AM
May 2020

Look at the film Jaws. Those people in the wAter knew there was a man eating shark out there. The film in that respect was wholly believable.

ScratchCat

(2,010 posts)
4. The media already played that one
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:15 AM
May 2020

It was in between church burnings and missing blonde girls. People still went to the beach.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,828 posts)
5. More people are likely to die from this virus....
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:21 AM
May 2020

That to be struck by lightening or attacked by a shark.

Just under 100,000 dead and counting. Once that milestone has been hit, watch the numbers rise substantially.

sop

(10,274 posts)
7. The only problem with this analogy is once sharks finished with them, they couldn't come back and
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:36 AM
May 2020

infect other Americans. Apart from the stench from all the uneaten body parts littering our public beaches, and the huge economic loss of so much Human Capital Stock ending up as chum, society as a whole wouldn't be affected.

Roc2020

(1,618 posts)
8. wouldn't need six figures for sharks
Wed May 27, 2020, 02:08 PM
May 2020

10 deaths in 60days that beach or swim location is bankrupt. yet 100,000 later people want to wink and take chances with this virus. no not I.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
13. "Sir/mame time is up in your shark party cage, I'm gonna need your next hour $ or you have to go!"
Wed May 27, 2020, 02:21 PM
May 2020

These assholes would sell milk to a cow given the OP?



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