I mean, the rate at which people are dying and becoming disabled due to covid can't be sustainable, can it? This country was running on fumes to begin with. Surely a country with an infamously terrible healthcare system, an economy that runs everything with as little margin for error as possible, and a government that has lost its ability to respond to any major disaster that can't be shot at cannot withstand this kind of catastrophe? What do you think things are going to look like five years from now?
Oh sure, you're definitely right that the inertia of capitalism and imperialism will keep the bloated corpse of the USA floating along for a long as it can — I'm just not convinced it could weather population loss the same as WWII-era USSR because its leadership seems to only be capable of accelerating the empire's decline and exacerbating hardship
Eh, did the Bengal famine actually bothered the British rule over that region?