03-28-2020, 10:40 PM
America is in a very different mood from that of 2001. The 9/11 attack was disgusting in the extreme, but America went back to the ways before 9/11, perhaps making incremental changes to security practices, but otherwise -- it was back to speculation and shopping.
Death totals in the USA alone are already approaching those of 9/11... the travel restrictions don't exist, but if hopping on board a jetliner was scary in late 2001, it could be even more dangerous now. Sure, one can travel, but there are few places to go. Scenic sites on a Sunday drive, maybe, but I am too far from the Great Lakes shoreline.
Death totals in the USA alone are already approaching those of 9/11... the travel restrictions don't exist, but if hopping on board a jetliner was scary in late 2001, it could be even more dangerous now. Sure, one can travel, but there are few places to go. Scenic sites on a Sunday drive, maybe, but I am too far from the Great Lakes shoreline.
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.