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It scares me to think about what would happen now that there’s billions more people

• fallingfrog 6y ago
  We’d probably handle it much better. I’m generally a pessimist but I have to give modern civilization some credit; food can be shipped over huge distances and plagues handled much better than in the past.
  • s5300 6y ago
    Not my intent to be snarky in posting this Did you miss the part where the federal government of the U.S. went around seizing shipments of PPE to the point that governors had to facilitate private deals and then guard them with troops and secrecy of logistics to supply their own states? As one member of the presidential envoy stated "they're our masks" - not for the serfs of the nation, apparently. As much as I'd like to see things in the light you are, I'm just unable after the entirety of the shitshow that was the US handling of Covid-19
    • sellyme 6y ago
      Fortunately for Americans the shots are no longer being called by someone from reality TV, so governmental responses to future nationwide disasters should be marginally less pathetic.
    • fallingfrog 6y ago
      It was indeed a shitshow, as you point out. But I would still argue that the most incompetent mishandling of the situation today is better than the most competent handling possible back then, because we have electronic communications, germ theory of disease, it’s just a different world now. That’s not to minimize how abysmal the trump reaction to covid was. But we have built in advantages now.