11-16-2020, 08:45 AM
Just under 250,000 now... the death toll just surpassed Winston-Salem, North Carolina, home of some very bad habits (R J Reynolds Tobacco, Krispy-Kreme donuts) and the 90th-largest city in the United States. These days, failing to wear a mask or congregating in large groups can be about as fatal -- and far more quickly -- than smoking.
...Holidays are ahead, and COVID-19 has no reverence for them.
...Holidays are ahead, and COVID-19 has no reverence for them.
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.