The curve seems to be going from a fast-rising one to a less-slowly rising one on a logarithmic scale in America:
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if much too late for about 50,000 people who have already died.
How big is 50,000 people? That's roughly the population of Elkhart, Indiana, the small city about halfway between the Illinois and Indiana state lines on the Indiana Toll Road. Or Battle Creek, Michigan. a/k/a "Cereal City" on heavily-traveled Interstate 94 between Detroit and Chicago. That is 13,000 more people than Monterey, California, the coastal city of California that is essentially the southernmost city in northern California along the coast. It is still short of American combat losses in the Korean and Vietnam wars -- we are getting there. You can possibly pick cities that la4rgely stand alone that really are destinations or are stand-alone cities not having lots of suburbs or suburbs themselves.
Speaking of the Korean War and the Vietnam War -- at least the Korean War allowed a surviving South Korea to develop as an efficient, prosperous, and democratic society worthy in many ways for America to imitate. It is a possible interpretation of history that American involvement in Vietnam that American attempts to prop up the corrupt, incompetent, but pro-Western regime slowed the fall of 'dominoes' in Southeast Asia. Possible - but controversial. America did get a desirable wave of immigrants when the Republic of Vietnam fell.
OK, there is a limit to Pangloss-like speculations on history. (Doctor Pangloss is the educated, conservative fool in Voltaire's Candide). I may not be enough of an educated fool to see any good from the Plague of 2020. It has been rough on me -- and because I am so isolated as I am, I have no idea how rough it is on others except as cold, statistical measures.
Hey, hey, Donald Trump! How many geezers did you need to dump!
Yes, I am close to being one of those geezers. If I am lucky enough to avoid COVID-19 I will by default be one of the old bastards before I thought such likely. With lots of old people dying off, "seventy" will no longer be "the new fifty". It will be simply "seventy", and "old". I may have some of the characteristics of the old and wise person to whom younger people look for guidance for having "seen it all"... but I am on the autistic spectrum, so my vision is badly distorted and not fully reliable.
Hey, hey, Donald Trump! How many geezers did you have to dump!
Much elder wisdom richer and better than mine has been dying off before its time.
if much too late for about 50,000 people who have already died.
How big is 50,000 people? That's roughly the population of Elkhart, Indiana, the small city about halfway between the Illinois and Indiana state lines on the Indiana Toll Road. Or Battle Creek, Michigan. a/k/a "Cereal City" on heavily-traveled Interstate 94 between Detroit and Chicago. That is 13,000 more people than Monterey, California, the coastal city of California that is essentially the southernmost city in northern California along the coast. It is still short of American combat losses in the Korean and Vietnam wars -- we are getting there. You can possibly pick cities that la4rgely stand alone that really are destinations or are stand-alone cities not having lots of suburbs or suburbs themselves.
Speaking of the Korean War and the Vietnam War -- at least the Korean War allowed a surviving South Korea to develop as an efficient, prosperous, and democratic society worthy in many ways for America to imitate. It is a possible interpretation of history that American involvement in Vietnam that American attempts to prop up the corrupt, incompetent, but pro-Western regime slowed the fall of 'dominoes' in Southeast Asia. Possible - but controversial. America did get a desirable wave of immigrants when the Republic of Vietnam fell.
OK, there is a limit to Pangloss-like speculations on history. (Doctor Pangloss is the educated, conservative fool in Voltaire's Candide). I may not be enough of an educated fool to see any good from the Plague of 2020. It has been rough on me -- and because I am so isolated as I am, I have no idea how rough it is on others except as cold, statistical measures.
Hey, hey, Donald Trump! How many geezers did you need to dump!
Yes, I am close to being one of those geezers. If I am lucky enough to avoid COVID-19 I will by default be one of the old bastards before I thought such likely. With lots of old people dying off, "seventy" will no longer be "the new fifty". It will be simply "seventy", and "old". I may have some of the characteristics of the old and wise person to whom younger people look for guidance for having "seen it all"... but I am on the autistic spectrum, so my vision is badly distorted and not fully reliable.
Hey, hey, Donald Trump! How many geezers did you have to dump!
Much elder wisdom richer and better than mine has been dying off before its time.
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.