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NATO’s chief argues that giving more weapons to Ukraine is the fastest path to peace talks.

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* I'm gonna put money down:  2023 is going to be an uglier, deadlier year even moreso since the pandemic year of 2020 that killed so many innocents before the virus lost some of its oomph in the transmissions.  Lots of people died -- many of them caregivers and nurses, young nurses... -- in early 2020.  

Don't kid yourself that their first "round" of that virus was not deadly, and life threatening, for those of us who first experienced it in our bodies earlier that year before they told us what it was and what dangers we were in if exposed.  The high-fever (that finally broke), the fast-beating heart rate that went on for months and breathlessness at doing even "normal" activity like climbing 3 flights of stairs... that wasn't something we faked.  Nor were the ensuing medical complications some of us experienced that might, or might not, have been related:  even heavier bleeding during periods (HUGE clots) and blindness that came from white cataracts rapidly growing ...

It kills me to see people downplay the severity now of Covid in its earliest forms.  You don't have to like what was done, but if it saved even one young innocent worker-nurse's life -- serving others here on the homefront -- sorry your kiddies missed school and you had to mask publicly.  You take the caregivers for granted, you do.

You can't always sacrifice other people's lives for your ... "Freedoms!" when you weren't serving but were only asked to keep the transmission rate down so the healthcare workers were not overwhelmed.  Guess what?  They still are!  Just not facing so deadly a virus these day... #Grateful