I’d say to my kids: “I was there when it was written”
I was there, $name. I was there 4 years ago when the strength of men failed.
We’re going to look like such fucking idiots when people read about how we collectively handled it.
The only consolation, is that most of us looked at how many people were handling it at the time and said, “well they’re fucking idiots.”
“It’s true, all of it”
“Even the shitposts?”
“Especially the shitposts!”
My man.
Another one for my once in a lifetime crisis collection.
Why only once? The best things always have a sequel.
Then people born after 70s must be in a cinematic universe
Wtf Happened in 1971
Cool but I don’t need a goldbug conspiracy theorists’ website for that.
I am so confused, what is that website even trying to say!? Is it just a collection of graphs that seem to have some important turning point around 1971? Why choose that year in particular, you could do it for any other year? This seems like a lamer non-automated version of https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
In 1971, USA dropped gold standard and it has given rise to all kinds of conspiracy theories.
Ohhh, makes sense, thank you!
I hear they’re going to get a lot more frequent. I expect two Katrina-like events in the next ten years in Florida.
Maybe the tenth will be free.
They say history is written by the victors. I wonder who wrote this.
Inb4 ‘Probably Victor’
Author: Victor V. Victor
Who will win?
Some guy named Vinny “Vidi” Vici
Didn’t know a virus could write
idk, according to Plague Inc. rules it lost
There are still thousands of infections daily(~35,000 in the first week of 2024), and thousands of deaths weekly. Unless Plague Inc. rules have changed, Covid hasn’t lost yet.
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My great-grandma survived the Spanish flu as a teenager. But the high fever during the illness fucked her up so bad, she died of heart failure in her forties.
I’ve had it for a couple of months now. Sure, it sucks, and I can’t work currently, but I’d much rather have this than die though. This will pass (almost everyone gets better in a couple of years max), death is rather final. Also, don’t kid yourself about the people that had COVID but don’t experience long covid. Many of them have permanent changes to their body too, they just don’t know it.
I’ve had minor asthma my entire life, but didn’t used to really get asthma attacks. After getting COVID though I get them no problem. That was almost two years ago I was sick less than a week. Jogging, biking, sex, playing tag with the cats, need to grab my inhaler now.
My hypothesis is that when Covid started, the experts weren’t really sure of the long term effects, and they were preparing for the worst.
It’s bad enough as it is that I’m happy to wear a mask when appropriate.
Yeah being disabled sucks. Millions of people live like this.
It’s not until it happens to someone you know that you really think about it.
But people learn to live with it.
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No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn’t somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
Again you learn to live with that.
You should do some reading about being disabled because you views are a little ignorant tbh.
The past tense in the book is concerning
What a bizarre experience.
When I was in school…I’m pretty sure the state history cirriculum was designed to be America centric, and pro-America. Any nation a boomer would remember being at war with? Not in the history books, or they appear out of nowhere, do something pro-America, and then disappear again, like Russia did from 1939 to 1945. And both World and US history classes end at 1950 because 1. to the limp dicks that actually make the policy, “The fifties are practically now” and 2. we haven’t done much “being the good guys” since the jitterbug fell out of fashion.
So I’m not used to seeing something in a history textbook that isn’t from at least two of my lifetimes ago.
We homeschool our kids, and are religious, but we are heavily opposed to Christian nationalism, and want our kids to learn what actually happened, not some whitewashed curriculum that downplays anyone particular people’s ideological downfalls.
We found a curriculum, but it took a while. One of the first ones I opened to read through had a first chapter titled “God’s gift to the world through America” noped right out of that one…
We had the same textbooks I see.
Does it mention how badly trump fucked us with his COVID response?
I’ll be honest, even without Trump most Americans proved they were too stupid or stubborn to follow instructions, so he didn’t really need to do anything to slap the whole US with more infections.
what is a glow ball panned emic? never herd of that
It’s how I lost a dear disabled friend who was a father of 4.
“For a small number of people, the disease could be fatal.” Is three million people a small number? And as others have pointed out, the pandemic isn’t over. https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covid-19-estimating-global-excess-mortality
A history textbook which goes past the 1960s? This definitely is not a book used in American classrooms