04-07-2020, 06:46 AM
About 700,000 Americans have contracted AIDS and died. That statistic has caveats attached: AIDS has been killing for about forty years now, and people with AIDS might have died of causes wholly unrelated to AIDS such as vehicle collisions, homicide, and industrial accidents. Add to that, some AIDS victims may now be facing COVID-19 as the coup de grace.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.