re: #9 No Malarkey!

That is a massive understatement. Things were looking pretty good at the end of the 20th Century. 2001 is the year everything started unraveling, and now we are on the brink of a fascist revolution.

it is small comfort, but we’ll burn our way through the fever, and it may be we come out stronger on the other side. if nothing else, this period of madness may wind up breaking libertarianism and unfettered capitalism. What may have to happen is for there to be a persistent level of death from the pandemic amongst the unvaxxed masses. It is not something one wishes for, but if a thousand people a day die from stupidity, by the time 2024 rolls around, that’s roughly 700,000 trump supporters who will not be voting. Survival of the fittest will be in effect, and there isn’t anything that demands “the fittest” be the strongest or richest. One can survive things by being mentally fittest, or adaptable, as well. and that doesn’t mean being a genius—it just means being smart enough to trust scientists over hucksters and carnival barkers.