@cassandra17lina https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/new/

Speculation. We're rightly worried about a pandemic, but with lower vaccination, existing respiratory viruses, and some nasty strains, all hammering our immune systems, a "Multidemic" is probably a legitimate worry.

Get COVID and your weakened immune system means you get walking pneumonia. Get rsv and you're vulnerable to the flu. Unvaxxed kids spreading measles and when they recover they get COVID.

It'd be harder to fight due to shifting infection rates and chains.

The United States tends to operate from a position where many of its inhabitants perceive the country as invulnerable.

This is about to change as we devastate our own economy while alienating our alies.

@Redskye572 I've been dealing with this for 25 years. I recall someone telling me that in the late 90s. I pointed out the market was inflated in my state - and then shortly home values dropped 10%.

They shut up about purchasing a home after that.

It's weird to factor "idiots vote to tank economy" into my retirement and career plans.

@TomeReader I really think the picture of those dudes LOOKS AI to boot.

So pretty sure somewhere around the summer of 2025 I'll get into ham radio to judge my by friends and my interest in CERT.

@AskTheDevil pretty much.

Also it lets is burn the lessons into people's brains.

@AskTheDevil more I'm just going to take some pleasure in watching the news twist itself in knots trying to deal with the shit they created.

The large stuff is horrific, but watching them suffer might bring me some amusement.

@LnzyHou a point well made. I think he was the start, Palin was the finisher.

I must say as I watch the sanewashing going on in our failed mainstream news, when the inevitable chaos and disaster hits, I'm going to take grim amusement in the news acrobatics.

Six further thoughts on Ted Giola's idea that were a profoundly unserious people, adding finer detail to my thesis that "he's basically right." https://www.stevensavage.com/blog/2024/11/six-further-thoughts-on-not-being-serious.html

I seriously belive Sara Palin's VP nod was a critical moment when we went off the rails. A shallow self-promoter with neither shame nor concience people tried to treat as serious and legitimate.