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<p>Merle -</p>
<p>Is this of your coinage? As a word monger (munger?) I do
appreciate it's aptness for the moment.</p>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">One definition offered
is "the bitter pleasure of things going wrong in exactly the
way you predicted but no one believed you when it could have
made a difference." <br>
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<p>However...</p>
<p>I think like many sharp things, it cuts both ways. I'm sure
there are any number of Red Staters (with or with Red MAGA hats)
saying emphatically "I TOLE YA!" about the complement of things
that Blue Staters (with or without Bernie or Biden 2020 hats) are
saying.</p>
<p>Remember, my sympathies are mostly with the Blue Caps, but...</p>
<p>People living in small, remote, rural towns where the social
distancing is built in somewhat and where R0 is naturally lower
(and subsequent rates of infection) than in say downtown NYC or
Rome or Tehran or Delhi or Tokyo, may be saying "see I TOLE YA
that citified living is dangerous" or the same people who might
only take one airline flight in a year or decade or lifetime might
say "see I TOLE YA that flitting all around the world is crazy
business and would lead to no good!" or even more judgementally
"see I TOLE YA excluding Furriners would keep us safe!" or "see I
TOLE YA that office/retail/service work ain't righteous, you gotta
get yer hands dirty!"<br>
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<p>In any case, I enjoyed Cassandrafreude and will probably find it
springing to mind for the duration...</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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