MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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"I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There."
By artappraiser on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 2:37pm |This essay is not by Wallace-Wells, he is merely recommending reading it, as are many others.
URL:
https://medium.com/indica/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-already-there-ba1e4b54c5fc
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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:
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 4:47pm
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.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 5:01pm
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...
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 5:04pm
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
by ocean-kat on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 5:26pm
Conservatives at The Bulwark buying in to the meme:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/30/2020 - 12:57am