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64. If rich people who own businesses and make

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 05:20 PM

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their money from investment and speculation support Democratic politicians and liberal causes, that's great. I will get behind their parade and gladly sweep the streets.

But they should realize that covid, and long covid are real. When their customers die, or are too feeble to buy their products they lose a lot more than if they had separated the tables in their restaurants and encouraged the simple precautions which are all anyone is asking for.

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