The Coronavirus

[Eric the Green]

(04-08-2021, 08:03 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The population comparisons are thinning out, but each of them gets increasingly dramatic. We have just passed Albuquerque; on th enext stop, get a mass-market beer (is it any wonder that the city is in decline?) in Milwaukee.  At ro ughly 595K people, it is now America's 31st-largest as pf 2019 estimates.

By the time this dreadful epidemic is over -- and it is now mostly the result of human fault -- we will have a list of cities by official 2020 Census counts.

 

Go ahead. Feel free to hate. Two of the three above evil entities deserved the antipathy of their time. The third is alive and well. It deserves your hatred.

And my reflection. So many beautiful lives lost. Much consolation needed for those who loved them. And so much necessary to see beyond death, and reflect on the possibility that spirit lives on in some way. The eternal lives within the temporal. And the hope that some of us, at least (those who are not fanatical Trump Republicans) can learn something from this, and support for the necessary funds and research which Trump cut off, for plans and medicines to treat this and future pandemics, and support environmental measures that allow humans to stop encroaching on Nature and other species. And sorrow too for those (and their stupid leaders) who refuse to follow the health rules, get vaccinated and keep each other safe; they are paying the price as the pandemic continues.