12-12-2020, 04:45 PM
The 64th, 65th, and 66th largest cities of the United States are Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh, estimated to have 300,000 to 303,000 people. COVID-19 is in that league now in America. Cities are collections of living people; COVID-19 has killed enough people to be in the league with these cities of historical, cultural, and commercial prominence, at least in the past.
About 300,000 lives in America are now completely in the past because of COVID-19.
About 300,000 lives in America are now completely in the past because of COVID-19.
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.