I'm not necessarily saying that my guess of 600,000 dead by September 2021 is completely wrong or anything.
But... let's say, 1,000,000 by mid-April. What happens?
Absolutely jack-shit. Nobody will give a damn beyond those that are affected by it.
You already have places trying to fully open back up for in-person at 100% as if nothing has happened while people continue to die/get infected.
as if nothing has happened while people continue to die
Hypernormalization
Exciting career opportunities in the rapidly growing grave digging industry.
I have a friend who was a gravedigger and he said it was a pretty cool job, it just paid terribly. He got to drive a back hoe drunk and goth chicks were really into the idea of fucking a gravedigger lmao
I think the fucked up emotional detachment outweighs the big tiddy goth GFs. Dude said after a while he would be stoked when the bodies were children because their graves took less time to dig and their caskets were really light 😬
Yeah I mean it's considered an unglamorous job for a reason. Very high alcoholism rate in the funeral industry. They really need to unionize, the pay is about the same as a cashier at 7-eleven.
and then when you go on strike it causes mass panic, apparently British boomers still go on about the grave digger strike and how corpses were piling up in the streets (I doubt that)
I keep mentioning brunch to all the people calling to congratulate on Biden. Well now I'm having a brunch party with 20 people sounds like everything is ok to me...
It will severely cut into our goal of one billion Americans. We might have to ban the volcel police so we can up production
The rich and powerful don't really suffer from the disease anymore, there are treatments and they are able to quarantine in relative luxury. They don't care that the poors die by the millions. They do want the economy to keep spinning, rents collected, restaurants to stay open, etc. So there will/is a collective push to normalize and propagandize "everything is fine"
When Europe was hit at first, I saw a discussion on r/europe where people said, if this was America it would be all over the front page. They were wrong, even at the height of the pandemic it was mostly memes and funny animals. And now it's old news. I can easily imagine 1,500 deaths a day becoming the new normal, with an occasional article "COVID-19, the forgotten pandemic", just like you have pieces about "Afghanistan, the forgotten war".
On the other hand, if Trump keeps complaining about election fraud, and then Biden takes office and orders a lockdown to control the virus, things might get really crazy. I don't think Trump supporters can live under Democratic lockdown without acting out.
Biden takes office and orders a lockdown to control the virus
He's said he won't order a lockdown though. Besides, is ordering a nation-wide one even possible in terms of the powers a president has, especially with a Republican controlled congress and Supreme Court? Then you also have to factor in certain red states or municipalities just refusing to enforce it, and as you said people protesting against it.
He can definitely lockdown the entire country. The president can declare a state of emergency and rule like a dictator if they want.
Utah is currently clamping down. And it's not the first state or city to try.
I think this is something states may try to implement simply as a means of self-preservation. If the very popular sitting President isn't actively heckling the idea, it may open up options for governors.
At the same time, Trump's power is in his social media presence. His influence could continue to scare admins from doing the smart thing if he continues to be a major voice.
I don't know how much power Biden will have exactly, depends also on the Georgia senate race, but he said he is going to listen to the science. Right now there are 100,000 new cases a day, and it's going up very quickly, so I'm expecting some very extreme advice from epidemiologists.
I mean 1500 deaths a day is what this week is going to be in the USA. Last week they already had multiple days where the the death count was over 1200 a day. Hyper normalisation everyone, just try your best to fight against it and stay sane
The sacrifice is complete the elder gods awakens from underneath Yellowstone.
some guesses:
- they'll try and push out a vaccine through the fucked up health care system accompanied by a PR campaign from the Biden White House which will fuel various militant right-wing conspiracies
- media will continue to mention the death toll from the pandemic without any major reflection or respect for the appalling scale of the tragedy.
- spring and summer might see another wave of protests from the severe economic downturn
Absolutely none. It's not property so nobody gives a shit.
Nothing. I mean, I get angry when I think how US Americans don't give one shit that we murdered hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on false pretenses. We just say "whoopsie" and move on. But I suppose we're at least consistent in our callousness, we won't care if a million fellow Americans die. I mean, how many Americans right now would wear masks if they were expected to in some places? How many avoid going out beyond what's mostly necessary? Maybe one in fifty?
