Seriously? I had no idea. Is this widely known?
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Question about the corona virus
- Thread starter Frank Goad
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Ah. Cabin refurbishing can be such a rewarding endeavor. I wonder why she would dream of worlds beyond this one.
Globally? What's a globe? Isn't the world flat? Kansas is flat and Kansas is just east of here. The world MUST be flat. At least to the east. Maybe it's a globe to the west. Is that what you're talking about? If so, I don't know about that. They didn't teach us a whole lot about what's to the west of us. I mean, west beyond the Rams Stadium.
My father once spoke of mysterious lands he roamed as a young man. I dismissed them as any good teenage son would. Could he have been speaking of real places? Are New Guinea, Australia and China real places? Do they really have people there?
It did not want to bring that up or laugh at it, but it is a strange belief to think of this world as a globe. Imagine if you started in Kansas and walked all the way around right back to Kans...Oh good grief, the world is Kansas.
The world can't possibly be flat, if it were all the cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now
Yes. If it were not for people in china this thread would be meaningless
While I do not think that @Frank Goad was intentionally excluding the impact of this event from the rest of the world, it is part of the human condition that we first think of those things closest to us. These have significance for our experience and the further from our experience, the less real (I am disappointed at failing to find a better description) others and other places seem to us.
I see what you did there.
I knew someone once who said she was from Central Europe! Some place called Bohemia, actually. I didn't believe her, of course. Not for a moment! But I married her anyway.
Yes, it will. Probably in a similar way to the way the Spanish Flu has gone down in history books.
On the other hand, like most things historical, the vast majority of people will forget about it in 30 year so except as a curiosity or a 'I was there' sort of thing. In 100 years, it will only be in the history books, although some habits may be preserved unwittingly.
Historical records yes, but it is not as significant as the 1918-20 flu pandemic, which is not well covered in high school and college history books.
Isn't Central Europe part of Canada?
Why is that lion depicted as swallowing an umbrella?
I bet you're right about that. My first wife was a such strange and exotic woman --- and Canadians are such a strange and exotic people.
I think that one of the biggest regrets that I will have in the end is that I have not had the opportunity to see more of this world. To see and experience different cultures, even as an outsider. I will have to satisfy myself that some places I will only see through some media source.
And of course they talk funny too
When you come from the Ozarks, Detroit is strange and exotic.