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Conservatives at The Bulwark

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:57:31 +0000

In reply to "I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There."

Conservatives at The Bulwark buying in to the meme:

This—Right Now—Is What Collapse Looks Like https://t.co/QIWeLgA09A https://t.co/vH3IN4EhFm
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) September 30, 2020

We could/should have done

ocean-kat — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:26:17 +0000

In reply to Bringing up 1918 is apt and a

We could/should have done better with the covid but we also could have just ignored it.Instead of 200 thousand 2 million or even 4 million might have died, 10 or 20 times as many, and America with it's 350 million people would have taken it in stride and moved on. And your comparison of the far worse world wide effects of the World Wars is apt.

eta: I knew the 1918 flu was far worse than what we're experiencing now but just to get the accurate numbers, in the US 675 thousand died from the 1918 flu and that's when the population was only 103 million. That's the equivalent of over 2 million dying with today's population

Bringing up 1918 is apt and a

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:04:45 +0000

In reply to I don't think the comparison

Bringing up 1918 is apt and a very good point. Combined with WWI its impact is arguably many many multitudes greater on the world. Heck, stuff like there were few young men left alive and healthy! Basically a whole generation went poof...

I don't think the comparison

ocean-kat — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:01:53 +0000

In reply to While the above essay has a

I don't think the comparison is germane. Most of the deaths are from the virus the rest is just normal human aggression and at a lower level than it's been in the past. It's not a civil war and for all the difficulties we're facing if it's considered a collapse than America collapsed during the 1918 pandemic yet somehow survived with very little change afterwards.

eta: This was meant to reply to the main article linked, not this comment.

While the above essay has a

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:47:32 +0000

In reply to "I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There."

While the above essay has a lot of "slap in your face" merits to it, I prefer this. He's a scientist, director of the Genetics Institute at the University of London, and has been tweeting a lot on Covid:

Before I leave, I would encourage everyone, irrespective of their views on #COVID19, whether young, old, healthy, wealthy, influential or not, to be less dogmatic, more empathetic, and just for a fleeting moment imagine themselves in someone else's drastically different life.
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— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) September 25, 2020