lewrockwell--2020-05-28--70% Depopulation of the US Predicted by 2025

Many people are asking , what is the endgame of this contrived coronavirus epidemic ?
What is government attempting to accomplish ?
Complete control of individuals ?
Total destruction of private enterprise ?
Abolishment of Constitution protections ?
Foment racial discord ?
Outlaw guns ?
Demolish religion ?
Sweep the President from office ?
Cull the world ’ s human population ?
Yes , all of those are likely objectives .
And to realize how fragile our freedoms are , this was all done in a period of one week .
And a fearful population fully cooperated , voluntarily at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Now , can America ever get fearful workers to come out of hibernation and go back to work ?
I don ’ t have access as an insider to any more information than others .
I ’ m piecing together information as you are , like parts of a puzzle .
We may be misled by fear mongers who want us all to come to the wrong conclusions that are emotional unsettling in order to spread fear amongst the human family .
This is what I have come to understand is going on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guesswork based on facts .
Empty Planet : The Shoc ... Darrell & Ibbitson , Jo ... Best Price : $ 13.49 Buy New $ 26.00 If indeed crimes against humanity are underway , you can bet none of the perpetrators are going to raise their hands above their heads and admit to their crimes .
As we have learned in modern times , there are some people who are untouchables , like former Presidents , former football players , and $ 90-billionaire philanthropists .
So outside of a confession , it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for crimes against humanity .
Surprisingly , the suspected saboteurs of freedom have actually “ spilled the beans ” on what they are up to .
We have already been told I believe whomever is behind the plannedemic we see unfolding every day has already told us what to expect , when it will occur , how they plan to do their evil deeds , and what amount of depopulation will occur .
Yes , maybe mass emigration out of the U.S. or a horrific number of deaths .
That is what is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right off conspirator ’ s lips .
Fortunately , that hasn ’ t happened yet .
Only exaggerated news reports of COVID-19 deaths have made the public run and hide from this mostly benign viral outbreak .
First , there is the World Health Organization ( WHO ) saying in 2018 that a non-descript Disease X was surely going to strike during President Trump ’ s tenure in office , well unless WHO got the funding they were demanding .
Earlier , in 2017 , Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Trump administration about the inevitability of a “ surprise ” disease outbreak .
We also can view a segment of a TV series that aired in 2003 , based on a Stephen King novel entitled Deadzone , where the CDC served as consultant , that deals with a coronavirus outbreak emanating from China , and chloroquine is presented as the only antidote .
That isn ’ t coincidence .
Storey ’ s Guide t ... Damerow , Gail Best Price : $ 24.97 Buy New $ 23.11 The hidden leader of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine entrepreneur Bill Gates , masquerading as a benevolent humanitarian , who claims vaccination will save more lives , but then reveals in a TED Talk ( at 4:21 in the TED Talk ) : Make no mistake about it , Mr. Gates was saying one of the following factors he had on his photo slide at the TED Talk ( CO2 , people , services , energy per service and CO2 per unit of energy ) has to come down to zero .
“ Probably one of these numbers is going to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” he said .
Gates said the aggregate of those factors has risen to 1.3 .
So , “ people ” are on the Gates chopping block to save the earth from CO2 , you know , the gas that plants and trees use in photosynthesis .
Gates predicted a killer virus would originate from China ’ s wet markets in a 2019 Netflix documentary .
He is a $ 90 billion oligarch who can buy off government agencies , the news press , and in fact skirt around governmental oversight and congressional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man can single-handedly buy an epidemic .
The Invisible Enemy Garrett , Mr. Gregory L ... Buy New $ 26.94 Bill Gates believes overpopulation must be addressed even though we are learning that in healthy economies , women choose to limit the number of children they give birth to without government interference .
Western Europe , Italy , North America and Japan are in negative population growth .
Gates slightly alters his understanding of this phenomenon by saying , as human populations are vaccinated and therefore healthier , women will limit the size @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccines , it is growth in incomes and the overall economy .
Gates even dared to sponsor EVENT 201 , a pandemic exercise , just prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan , China .
The defining event of the 21st Century is underpopulation , as revealed in the newly released book EMPTY PLANET .
Gates is living in the past with antiquated Malthusian ideas about population control .
The 2014 epic documentary by filmmaker Jessica Yu , MISCONCEPTION , said overpopulation is a long-held myth .
But who was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now ?
Gates wants to rule the world .
How do I back up that statement ?
Every decision the President of the United States made that didn ’ t agree with Bill Gates , Mr. Gates took to the TV news cameras to object .
Instead of working with the President to convince him of his views , he decides to critique the President of the United States .
Finally , we have a startling forecast ( above ) from Deagel.com , a highly regarded military assessment and intelligence corporation that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s forecast for the U.S. is a decline in population from 327 million ( 2017 ) to 100 million in 2025 , and a decline in Gross Domestic Product from $ 19 trillion to $ 2.4 trillion over the same time period , accompanied by a world decline in GDP of - $ 65-trillion .
That ’ s an unexplained -70 % decline in U.S. population .
What does Deagel know that we don ’ t know ?
Either a lot of Americans are going to be emigrating or dying .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 4.91 Buy New $ 10.91 Look back at the Deagel.com chart .
Find the BUDGET line for the U.S .
It is $ 6.3 trillion annually .
The U.S. only collected $ 3.46 trillion in federal tax revenues in 2019 and prior to the COVID-19 outbreak was scheduled to collect an estimated $ 3.71 trillion in 2020 .
There was an unexplained shortfall of $ 2.84 trillion in 2019 .
And similar shortfalls in prior years .
The U.S. government issues U.S. Treasury Notes to foreign trading partners to borrow ~ $ 500 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accumulated to the $ 25 trillion national debt recorded at the US DEBT CLOCK website .
The net shortfall is -2.34 trillion for 2019 is apparently created out of thin air by the push of a button at the U.S. Treasury Department ( electronic money ) .
Dishing out $ 2.34 trillion without commensurate productivity just dilutes the value of existing money which results in inflation .
This means , to balance income against spending , the American standard of living has to be cut by $ 2.34 trillion .
Say good-bye to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and military spending .
( Deagel predicts a drop from $ 637 billion to $ 32 billion in military budget ) .
More about this below .
This means the U.S. has been living a lifestyle it hasn ’ t earned .
The greatest country in the history of the world , achieved on a credit card that is now maxed out .
We Have Been Harmonize ... Strittmatter , Kai Buy New $ 30.99 On July 24 , 2019 an inconspicuous writer , Amber William , posting at MyDailyInformer.com and quoting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collapse in 2020 with massive -78 % depopulation ( deaths ) .
So , others have predicted this collapse .
The news media U.S. citizens rely upon keeps the masses in the dark .
The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic is just being used as political cover for the great financial collapse in the history of the world .
The lockdown of the population appears to be an effort to keep workers inside and away from returning to work , when they will find they don ’ t have jobs any longer .
The National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , like Cincinnati , Washington DC , Los Angeles , not where COVID-19 deaths are high but where low-income workers are concentrated .
The obvious objective is to place National Guard troops in place before rioting and looting starts .

Many people are asking, what is the endgame of this contrived coronavirus epidemic? What is government attempting to accomplish? Complete control of individuals? Total destruction of private enterprise? Abolishment of Constitution protections? Foment racial discord? Outlaw guns? Demolish religion? Sweep the President from office? Cull the world’s human population? Yes, all of those are likely objectives. And to realize how fragile our freedoms are, this was all done in a period of one week. And a fearful population fully cooperated, voluntarily at first, and eventually by mandate. Now, can America ever get fearful workers to come out of hibernation and go back to work?
I don’t have access as an insider to any more information than others. I’m piecing together information as you are, like parts of a puzzle. We may be misled by fear mongers who want us all to come to the wrong conclusions that are emotional unsettling in order to spread fear amongst the human family. This is what I have come to understand is going on. Some is fact, some is guesswork based on facts.
Empty Planet: The Shoc... Darrell & Ibbitson, Jo... Best Price: $13.49 Buy New $26.00 (as of 10:56 UTC - Details) If indeed crimes against humanity are underway, you can bet none of the perpetrators are going to raise their hands above their heads and admit to their crimes. As we have learned in modern times, there are some people who are untouchables, like former Presidents, former football players, and $90-billionaire philanthropists. So outside of a confession, it is unlikely they would ever be held accountable for crimes against humanity. Surprisingly, the suspected saboteurs of freedom have actually “spilled the beans” on what they are up to.
We have already been told
I believe whomever is behind the plannedemic we see unfolding every day has already told us what to expect, when it will occur, how they plan to do their evil deeds, and what amount of depopulation will occur. Yes, maybe mass emigration out of the U.S. or a horrific number of deaths. That is what is planned. The evidence for this comes right off conspirator’s lips. Fortunately, that hasn’t happened yet. Only exaggerated news reports of COVID-19 deaths have made the public run and hide from this mostly benign viral outbreak.
Here’s the evidence:
First, there is the World Health Organization (WHO) saying in 2018 that a non-descript Disease X was surely going to strike during President Trump’s tenure in office, well unless WHO got the funding they were demanding. Earlier, in 2017, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Infectious Disease, warned (threatened) the Trump administration about the inevitability of a “surprise” disease outbreak.
We also can view a segment of a TV series that aired in 2003, based on a Stephen King novel entitled Deadzone, where the CDC served as consultant, that deals with a coronavirus outbreak emanating from China, and chloroquine is presented as the only antidote. That isn’t coincidence. Storey’s Guide t... Damerow, Gail Best Price: $24.97 Buy New $23.11 (as of 03:56 UTC - Details)
The hidden leader of the band
Then there is Mr. Double-Speak, vaccine entrepreneur Bill Gates, masquerading as a benevolent humanitarian, who claims vaccination will save more lives, but then reveals in a TED Talk (at 4:21 in the TED Talk):
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines… we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”
Make no mistake about it, Mr. Gates was saying one of the following factors he had on his photo slide at the TED Talk (CO2, people, services, energy per service and CO2 per unit of energy) has to come down to zero. “Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near zero,” he said.
Gates said the aggregate of those factors has risen to 1.3. So, “people” are on the Gates chopping block to save the earth from CO2, you know, the gas that plants and trees use in photosynthesis.
Gates predicted a killer virus would originate from China’s wet markets in a 2019 Netflix documentary. He is a $90 billion oligarch who can buy off government agencies, the news press, and in fact skirt around governmental oversight and congressional budgets to achieve his goals. This man can single-handedly buy an epidemic.
The Invisible Enemy Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $26.94 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details) Bill Gates believes overpopulation must be addressed even though we are learning that in healthy economies, women choose to limit the number of children they give birth to without government interference. Western Europe, Italy, North America and Japan are in negative population growth. Gates slightly alters his understanding of this phenomenon by saying, as human populations are vaccinated and therefore healthier, women will limit the size of their families. It is not vaccines, it is growth in incomes and the overall economy.
Gates even dared to sponsor EVENT 201, a pandemic exercise, just prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China.
The defining event of the 21st Century is underpopulation, as revealed in the newly released book EMPTY PLANET. Gates is living in the past with antiquated Malthusian ideas about population control. The 2014 epic documentary by filmmaker Jessica Yu, MISCONCEPTION, said overpopulation is a long-held myth. But who was listening then, and who is listening now? Gates wants to rule the world. How do I back up that statement? Every decision the President of the United States made that didn’t agree with Bill Gates, Mr. Gates took to the TV news cameras to object. Instead of working with the President to convince him of his views, he decides to critique the President of the United States.
Depopulation
Finally, we have a startling forecast (above) from Deagel.com, a highly regarded military assessment and intelligence corporation that is known as a CIA-front company.
Deagel’s forecast for the U.S. is a decline in population from 327 million (2017) to 100 million in 2025, and a decline in Gross Domestic Product from $19 trillion to $2.4 trillion over the same time period, accompanied by a world decline in GDP of -$65-trillion. That’s an unexplained -70% decline in U.S. population. What does Deagel know that we don’t know? Either a lot of Americans are going to be emigrating or dying. The Backyard Homestead... Best Price: $4.91 Buy New $10.91 (as of 05:50 UTC - Details)
Look back at the Deagel.com chart. Find the BUDGET line for the U.S. It is $6.3 trillion annually. The U.S. only collected $3.46 trillion in federal tax revenues in 2019 and prior to the COVID-19 outbreak was scheduled to collect an estimated $3.71 trillion in 2020.
There was an unexplained shortfall of $2.84 trillion in 2019. And similar shortfalls in prior years.
The U.S. government issues U.S. Treasury Notes to foreign trading partners to borrow ~$500 billion each year. That borrowing has accumulated to the $25 trillion national debt recorded at the US DEBT CLOCK website.
The net shortfall is -2.34 trillion for 2019 is apparently created out of thin air by the push of a button at the U.S. Treasury Department (electronic money). Dishing out $2.34 trillion without commensurate productivity just dilutes the value of existing money which results in inflation. This means, to balance income against spending, the American standard of living has to be cut by $2.34 trillion. Say good-bye to Medicare, Social Security, welfare payments, and military spending. (Deagel predicts a drop from $637 billion to $32 billion in military budget). More about this below.
This means the U.S. has been living a lifestyle it hasn’t earned. The greatest country in the history of the world, achieved on a credit card that is now maxed out. We Have Been Harmonize... Strittmatter, Kai Buy New $30.99 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details)
Other predictions
On July 24, 2019 an inconspicuous writer, Amber William, posting at MyDailyInformer.com and quoting other reliable sources, predicted a financial collapse in 2020 with massive -78% depopulation (deaths). So, others have predicted this collapse. The news media U.S. citizens rely upon keeps the masses in the dark.
The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic is just being used as political cover for the great financial collapse in the history of the world. The lockdown of the population appears to be an effort to keep workers inside and away from returning to work, when they will find they don’t have jobs any longer. The National Guard was poised to enter eight cities, like Cincinnati, Washington DC, Los Angeles, not where COVID-19 deaths are high but where low-income workers are concentrated. The obvious objective is to place National Guard troops in place before rioting and looting starts.


lewrockwell--2020-05-28--Where Did My World Go?

Where Did My World Go?

I remember when there was no tamper-proof and child-proof packaging .
That was before multiculturalism and Identity Politics when we could still trust one another and parents accepted responsibility for their children without fobbing it off on a company with a liability claim .
I remember also when there were no state income and sales taxes .
States were able to meet their responsibilities without them .
A postage stamp cost one cent .
A middle class house was $ 11,000 and an upper middle class house went fot $ 20,000 .
One million dollars was a large fortune .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ museum on the naval base in Pensacola , Florida , has a street reconstructed from the 1940s .
The restaurant ’ s memu offers a complete evening meal for 69 cents .
The Tyranny of Good In ... Paul Craig Roberts , La ... Best Price : $ 6.96 Buy New $ 8.95 I was thinking about that as I reviewed a recent Publix supermarket bill : a loaf of bread $ 3.89 , a dozen organic eggs $ 4.95 , a package of 6 hot dogs $ 5.49 , 8 small tomatos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spinach $ 4.19 , a half gallon of milk $ 4.59 , a package of two paper towel rolls $ 5.99 .
When I was 5 or 6 years old , my mother would send me to the bakery with a dime for a loaf of bread or to the market with 11 cents for a quart of milk .
The Saturday afternoon double-feature at the movie house was 10 cents .
A case of Coca-Colas ( 24 bottles ) was one dollar .
Ten cents would get you a Pepsi Cola and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crews .
Kids would look for discarded Pepsi Cola bottles on construction sites .
In those days there was a two cent deposit on soft drink bottles .
One bottle was worth 4 pieces of Double Bubble gum .
Five bottles paid for the Saturday double-feature .
Dimes , quarters , and half dollars were silver , and there were silver dollars .
The nickle ( five cent coin ) was nickle , and the penny was copper .
FDR took gold away in 1933 .
The silver coins disappeared in 1965 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ penny , met its demise in 1983 .
Now they are talking about getting rid of the penny altogether .
Many of us grew up with paper routes for spending money .
Other than a paper route , my first employment was the high school summer when I worked the first shift in a cotton mill for $ 1 an hour .
And work it was .
After the withholding tax my takehome pay for the 40 hour week was $ 33 .
When I was five years old I could walk safely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ myself without my parents being arrested by Child Protective Services for child neglect and endangerment .
MoonPie Single Decker ... Buy New $ 36.00 ( $ 0.19 / Ounce ) In school we could draw pictures of fighter planes , warships , and guns without being regarded as a danger to our classmates and sent for psychiatric evaluation .
Fights were just a part of growing up .
The police weren ’ t called , and we weren ’ t handcuffed and carted off to jail .
Today kids who play cops and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fingers at one another as pretend guns end up in police custody .
A fight means an assault charge and possibly a felony record .
The kind of freedom I had as a child no longer exists except in remote rural areas .
When I think about this I wonder if kids today even notice .
They live in the virtual world of the video screen and do not know the real world .
Catching crawfish in the creek while watching out for cottonmouth moccasins , playing capture the flag over acres of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poison ivy , organizing a neighbohood ball game , damning up a creek and making a swimming hole .
Today these are unknown pleasures .
When it rained we read books .
I remember reading Robert Heinlein ’ s Puppet Masters when I was 12 years old .
Do 12 year olds read books today ?
Can science fiction compete with video games ?
I remember when a deal rested on a handshake .
Today lawyers tell me even contracts are unenforceable .
The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein Best Price : $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so that “ you can look yourself in the mirror.
” Today you can ’ t look yourself in the mirror unless you have upstaged or ripped off someone .
Character is a thing of the past , as are habits that are today regarded as inappropriate .
An older person hoping to get a point across to a younger one would put his or her hand on the younger person ’ s arm or thigh for attention purposes .
Do this today and you get a sexual charge .
Both of my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sexual offenders .
Being a tattle-tale was an undesirable and discouraged trait .
Today we are encouraged to be tattle-tales .
You will hear the encouragement several dozen times while awaiting your flight to be called .
Neighbors on quiet cul-de-sacs will call Child Protective Services to report one another ’ s unsupervised children at play .
I remember when black Americans said they just wanted to be treated like everyone else .
That was before racial set-asides in federal government contracts that only black-owned firms can bid on .
Once you have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to be like everyone else .
Blacks say being white is a privilege .
If so , it wasn ’ t enough privilege for Celeste Bennett ’ s firm Ultima .
Her white privilege and her gender privilege were trumped by black set-aside privilege .
Circle in the Darkness ... Johnstone , Diana Best Price : $ 16.44 Buy New $ 16.60 If my parents and grandparents were to be resurrected , they would require a year ’ s training before it would be safe for them to go about with being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ educated out of their customary behavior patterns and taught the words and phrases that are today impermissable .
They would have trouble comprehending that there are no-go areas in cities .
Reading Diana Johnstone ’ s masterful book , Circle in the Darkness , I remembered the safety of my own youthful years as I read that as a 12 year old she could walk alone around the wharfs of southwest Washington , D.C. , in the 1940s unmolested .
I received my new homeowners policy yesterday .
It arrived with 89 pages @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explanations .
One can ’ t really tell if one is insured or not .
I have a 54-year old Jaguar that I have had for 47 years .
The owner ’ s manual tells how to operate and repair the car .
A friend showed me the owner ’ s manual on his 21-year old Porsche .
It has more pages of warnings to protect the manufacturer from liability claims than the Jaguar manual has pages of instruction .
Today any tool or gadget you buy has more pages of warnings than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy arrived explaining my meager and expensive covering .
It came with a notice letting me know that language assistance services are available for the policy in Spanish , Vietnamese , Tagalog , Russian , Arabic , Haitian Creole , French , Polish , Portuguese , Italian , German , Japanese , Hmong , Llocano , Somali , Greek , Gujarati , and that there is no discrimination because of sex , age , race , color , disability or national origin .
The notice provides access to a Civil Rights Coordinator in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AARP even provides a number to call for help with filing a discrimination complaint .
I do feel discriminated against .
But it is not a covered discrimination .
I feel like my country has been stolen or that I have been kidnapped and placed in some foreign unknown place that I don ’ t recognize as home .
I feel the same when I get fundraising appeals from Georgia Tech and Oxford University .
Georgia Tech was an all male school consisting primarily of in-state Georgia boys .
The Oxford colleges were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vast majority of the members were British .
Today all the colleges except the women ’ s are gender integrated .
White males seldom appear in the photos in the fundraising materials that arrive from Oxford and Georgia Tech .
I see lots of women and racial diversity and wonder what university it is .
An improvement or not , they are not the schools of which I have memories .
The schools I knew have simply been taken away .
Something else is there now .
Perhaps it has always been true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long you outlive your world .
As your friends die off , no one remembers it correctly but you as you watch your world disappear in misrepresentations to serve present day agendas .
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

I remember when there was no tamper-proof and child-proof packaging. That was before multiculturalism and Identity Politics when we could still trust one another and parents accepted responsibility for their children without fobbing it off on a company with a liability claim.
I remember also when there were no state income and sales taxes. States were able to meet their responsibilities without them.
A postage stamp cost one cent. A middle class house was $11,000 and an upper middle class house went fot $20,000. One million dollars was a large fortune. There were no billionaires.
The air museum on the naval base in Pensacola, Florida, has a street reconstructed from the 1940s. The restaurant’s memu offers a complete evening meal for 69 cents. The Tyranny of Good In... Paul Craig Roberts, La... Best Price: $6.96 Buy New $8.95 (as of 07:10 UTC - Details)
I was thinking about that as I reviewed a recent Publix supermarket bill: a loaf of bread $3.89, a dozen organic eggs $4.95, a package of 6 hot dogs $5.49, 8 small tomatos $5.19, a package of baby spinach $4.19, a half gallon of milk $4.59, a package of two paper towel rolls $5.99. When I was 5 or 6 years old, my mother would send me to the bakery with a dime for a loaf of bread or to the market with 11 cents for a quart of milk. The Saturday afternoon double-feature at the movie house was 10 cents. A case of Coca-Colas (24 bottles) was one dollar. Ten cents would get you a Pepsi Cola and a Moon Pie, lunch for construction crews. Kids would look for discarded Pepsi Cola bottles on construction sites. In those days there was a two cent deposit on soft drink bottles. One bottle was worth 4 pieces of Double Bubble gum. Five bottles paid for the Saturday double-feature.
Dimes, quarters, and half dollars were silver, and there were silver dollars. The nickle (five cent coin) was nickle, and the penny was copper. FDR took gold away in 1933. The silver coins disappeared in 1965. Our last commodity money, the copper penny, met its demise in 1983. Now they are talking about getting rid of the penny altogether.
Many of us grew up with paper routes for spending money. Other than a paper route, my first employment was the high school summer when I worked the first shift in a cotton mill for $1 an hour. And work it was. After the withholding tax my takehome pay for the 40 hour week was $33.
When I was five years old I could walk safely one mile to school and home by myself without my parents being arrested by Child Protective Services for child neglect and endangerment. MoonPie Single Decker ... Buy New $36.00 ($0.19 / Ounce) (as of 03:57 UTC - Details)
In school we could draw pictures of fighter planes, warships, and guns without being regarded as a danger to our classmates and sent for psychiatric evaluation. Fights were just a part of growing up. The police weren’t called, and we weren’t handcuffed and carted off to jail. Today kids who play cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians and point fingers at one another as pretend guns end up in police custody. A fight means an assault charge and possibly a felony record.
The kind of freedom I had as a child no longer exists except in remote rural areas. When I think about this I wonder if kids today even notice. They live in the virtual world of the video screen and do not know the real world. Catching crawfish in the creek while watching out for cottonmouth moccasins, playing capture the flag over acres of expanse without getting a bad case of poison ivy, organizing a neighbohood ball game, damning up a creek and making a swimming hole. Today these are unknown pleasures.
When it rained we read books. I remember reading Robert Heinlein’s Puppet Masters when I was 12 years old. Do 12 year olds read books today? Can science fiction compete with video games?
I remember when a deal rested on a handshake. Today lawyers tell me even contracts are unenforceable.
The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein Best Price: $3.90 (as of 03:57 UTC - Details) We were taught to behave properly so that “you can look yourself in the mirror.” Today you can’t look yourself in the mirror unless you have upstaged or ripped off someone. Character is a thing of the past, as are habits that are today regarded as inappropriate. An older person hoping to get a point across to a younger one would put his or her hand on the younger person’s arm or thigh for attention purposes. Do this today and you get a sexual charge. Both of my grandmothers would probably be locked up as sexual offenders.
Being a tattle-tale was an undesirable and discouraged trait. Today we are encouraged to be tattle-tales. You will hear the encouragement several dozen times while awaiting your flight to be called. Neighbors on quiet cul-de-sacs will call Child Protective Services to report one another’s unsupervised children at play.
I remember when black Americans said they just wanted to be treated like everyone else. That was before racial set-asides in federal government contracts that only black-owned firms can bid on. Once you have special privileges, you don’t want to be like everyone else. Blacks say being white is a privilege. If so, it wasn’t enough privilege for Celeste Bennett’s firm Ultima. Her white privilege and her gender privilege were trumped by black set-aside privilege.
Circle in the Darkness... Johnstone, Diana Best Price: $16.44 Buy New $16.60 (as of 04:31 UTC - Details) If my parents and grandparents were to be resurrected, they would require a year’s training before it would be safe for them to go about with being arrested. They would have to be educated out of their customary behavior patterns and taught the words and phrases that are today impermissable. They would have trouble comprehending that there are no-go areas in cities. Reading Diana Johnstone’s masterful book, Circle in the Darkness, I remembered the safety of my own youthful years as I read that as a 12 year old she could walk alone around the wharfs of southwest Washington, D.C., in the 1940s unmolested.
I received my new homeowners policy yesterday. It arrived with 89 pages of warnings, definitions, and liability explanations. One can’t really tell if one is insured or not.
I have a 54-year old Jaguar that I have had for 47 years. The owner’s manual tells how to operate and repair the car. A friend showed me the owner’s manual on his 21-year old Porsche. It has more pages of warnings to protect the manufacturer from liability claims than the Jaguar manual has pages of instruction. Today any tool or gadget you buy has more pages of warnings than instruction.
My AARP Medicare supplement insurance policy arrived explaining my meager and expensive covering. It came with a notice letting me know that language assistance services are available for the policy in Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Russian, Arabic, Haitian Creole, French, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, Hmong, Llocano, Somali, Greek, Gujarati, and that there is no discrimination because of sex, age, race, color, disability or national origin. The notice provides access to a Civil Rights Coordinator in the event I feel discriminated against. AARP even provides a number to call for help with filing a discrimination complaint.
I do feel discriminated against. But it is not a covered discrimination. I feel like my country has been stolen or that I have been kidnapped and placed in some foreign unknown place that I don’t recognize as home.
I feel the same when I get fundraising appeals from Georgia Tech and Oxford University. Georgia Tech was an all male school consisting primarily of in-state Georgia boys. The Oxford colleges were segregated according to gender—male and female—and the vast majority of the members were British. Today all the colleges except the women’s are gender integrated. White males seldom appear in the photos in the fundraising materials that arrive from Oxford and Georgia Tech. I see lots of women and racial diversity and wonder what university it is. An improvement or not, they are not the schools of which I have memories. The schools I knew have simply been taken away. Something else is there now.
Perhaps it has always been true, but today if you live very long you outlive your world. As your friends die off, no one remembers it correctly but you as you watch your world disappear in misrepresentations to serve present day agendas.
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts


lewrockwell--2020-05-28--‘The Coming War On China’ –  Watch John Pilger’s Powerfully Relevant Documentary

“ The aim of this film is to break a silence : the United States and China may well be on the road to war , and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable , ” Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China , which you can watch free on Youtube here or on Vimeo here .
“ In a few years China has become the world ’ s second-biggest economic power , ” Pilger ’ s introduction continues .
“ The United States is the world ’ s biggest military power , with bases and missiles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ocean .
China is a threat to this dominance , says Washington .
But who is the threat ?
This film is about shifting power , and great danger.
” As we ’ ve been discussing for years now , the relentless quest of the US-centralized empire-like power alliance for total world domination has put it on a collision course with the surging economic powerhouse of China which refuses to be absorbed into the imperial blob .
The empire ’ s continued existence depends upon its ability to undermine China before it grows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weak to stop its ascent , at which point global hegemony becomes impossible and we are living in a truly multipolar world .
China has therefore always been the final boss fight in the global campaign of violence and domination by what Pilger calls the “ empire which never speaks its name ” .
And the ramping up of anti-China narrative management by the US government indicates that we are being psychologically primed to accept this world-threatening confrontation , just as Pilger warned in 2016 .
The Return of Great Po ... Kroenig @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 25.95 “ The danger of confrontation grows by the day , ” Pilger says .
The powerful film breaks down the way the USA has been encircling China with a “ noose ” of military bases since the Korean War , which all have massive amounts of military firepower , including nuclear firepower , pointed right at China ’ s cities .
Pilger shows the psychopathic toll this has inflicted upon the people who live in the areas where the US war machine has set up shop in the Pacific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the use of Bikini Atoll natives as human guinea pigs to test the effects of nuclear radiation on people .
Also deeply disturbing is the revelation of just how close the US came to launching nuclear warheads at China due to a miscommunication during the Cuban missile crisis .
The film describes China ’ s recent history and explains its climb in economic power which led us to this point , and the USA ’ s generations-long history of provocation and hostility toward its government .
It also addresses the silly projection so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wasn ’ t bullying and slaughtering the world into compliance , China would take over doing the same .
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The AI Organization Best Price : $ 28.43 Buy New $ 29.93 Back in 2016 it was harder for people to see this escalation on the horizon , but now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic we ’ re hearing a frantic , disproportionate amount of anti-China sentiment from the Trump administration and its supporters , in the same way we heard Russia hysteria amplified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s enemies .
Trump was politically pressured to dangerously escalate cold war tensions with Russia , and he ’ s now being politically incentivized to pass the blame for his administration ’ s spectacular failures in addressing this pandemic on to the Chinese government in a way which manufactures support for escalations on that front as well .
Two different narratives , same agenda .
“ The new president , Donald Trump , has a problem with China , ” Pilger says at the end of the documentary .
“ The urgent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the provocations revealed in this film and take us all to the edge of war ?
” The answer to that question appears to be coalescing .
It ’ s a good time for us all to watch this film .
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“The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable,” Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch free on Youtube here or on Vimeo here.
“In a few years China has become the world’s second-biggest economic power,” Pilger’s introduction continues. “The United States is the world’s biggest military power, with bases and missiles and ships covering every continent and every ocean. China is a threat to this dominance, says Washington. But who is the threat? This film is about shifting power, and great danger.”
As we’ve been discussing for years now, the relentless quest of the US-centralized empire-like power alliance for total world domination has put it on a collision course with the surging economic powerhouse of China which refuses to be absorbed into the imperial blob. The empire’s continued existence depends upon its ability to undermine China before it grows too powerful or the empire grows too weak to stop its ascent, at which point global hegemony becomes impossible and we are living in a truly multipolar world.

China has therefore always been the final boss fight in the global campaign of violence and domination by what Pilger calls the “empire which never speaks its name”. And the ramping up of anti-China narrative management by the US government indicates that we are being psychologically primed to accept this world-threatening confrontation, just as Pilger warned in 2016. The Return of Great Po... Kroenig, Matthew Best Price: $25.10 Buy New $25.95 (as of 05:05 UTC - Details)
“The danger of confrontation grows by the day,” Pilger says.
The powerful film breaks down the way the USA has been encircling China with a “noose” of military bases since the Korean War, which all have massive amounts of military firepower, including nuclear firepower, pointed right at China’s cities. Pilger shows the psychopathic toll this has inflicted upon the people who live in the areas where the US war machine has set up shop in the Pacific, including an especially enraging segment on the use of Bikini Atoll natives as human guinea pigs to test the effects of nuclear radiation on people. Also deeply disturbing is the revelation of just how close the US came to launching nuclear warheads at China due to a miscommunication during the Cuban missile crisis.
The film describes China’s recent history and explains its climb in economic power which led us to this point, and the USA’s generations-long history of provocation and hostility toward its government. It also addresses the silly projection so many westerners harbor that if the US wasn’t bullying and slaughtering the world into compliance, China would take over doing the same.
The White House is launching a communications plan across multiple federal agencies that focuses on accusing Beijing of orchestrating a “cover-up” & creating a global pandemic, according to two US officials & a government cable obtained by The Daily Beast https://t.co/3Xjm08G2Mw — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 21, 2020
AI, TRUMP, CHINA & THE... The AI Organization Best Price: $28.43 Buy New $29.93 (as of 03:58 UTC - Details) Back in 2016 it was harder for people to see this escalation on the horizon, but now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing a frantic, disproportionate amount of anti-China sentiment from the Trump administration and its supporters, in the same way we heard Russia hysteria amplified over the last three years by Trump’s enemies. Trump was politically pressured to dangerously escalate cold war tensions with Russia, and he’s now being politically incentivized to pass the blame for his administration’s spectacular failures in addressing this pandemic on to the Chinese government in a way which manufactures support for escalations on that front as well. Two different narratives, same agenda.
“The new president, Donald Trump, has a problem with China,” Pilger says at the end of the documentary. “The urgent question now is will Trump continue with the provocations revealed in this film and take us all to the edge of war?”
The answer to that question appears to be coalescing. It’s a good time for us all to watch this film.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-28--What the Failed 55-MPH Speed Limit Tells Us About COVID Lockdowns

During the oil crises of the 1970s , Congress attempted to lower gasoline consumption by mandating a lowered speed limit for vehicles on all highways .
But the efforts quickly evolved into a national campaign to increase traffic safety through lowered speed limits .
Government data showed that thousands of lives could be saved per year by enforcing lower speed limits .
Millions of American motorists , however , were unimpressed .
Widespread noncompliance resulted as many Americans concluded it was better to accept higher risk of death on highways—for themselves and for those around them—than to travel at reduced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the “ 55 Saves Lives ” slogan proved ineffective , and the national speed limit was repealed in 1995 .
The experience may be instructive today as many American policymakers insist that Americans must accept ongoing mass lockdowns and stay-at-home orders in the name of reducing deaths from COVID-19 .
Yet given that Americans have proven to be unwilling to reduce highway speeds—even in the face of the threat of traffic citations and deadly accidents—it is likely that they will soon be generally ignoring the lectures from “ experts ” and policymakers about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the name of safety .
Popcornopolis Gourmet ... Buy New $ 39.99 ( $ 0.83 / Ounce ) In 1974 , Congress passed the National Maximum Speed Law ( NMSL ) .
The bill mandated that states lower maximum allowable highway speeds to 55 miles per hour in order to receive federal highway funds .
Most states up to that time had speed limits ranging from 60 mph to 70 mph .
The law was passed in the hope that lower speeds would lead to lower gasoline consumption in the midst of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yet when the oil crises ebbed and the price of oil crashed in the early 1980s , the national speed limit law remained .
By then , supporters of the law were claiming that a 55-mph speed limit was necessary as a safety measure and that it saved thousands of lives each year .
One 1977 public service announcement claimed that “ since 1974 , 55 has been the single biggest factor in reducing highway deaths , by 36,000 people .
One of them may be you.
” A 1978 announcement concluded , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a law we can live with.
” The narrator reminded viewers : “ by 1975 , highway deaths were down by over 9,000 since 1973.…all of us , by slowing down , helped save more than 9,000 people.
” The goal was laudable .
Nowadays , more than 38,000 people die every year in crashes on US roadways .
An additional 4.4 million are injured seriously enough to require medical attention , and auto accidents are the leading cause of death in the US for people aged 1–54 .
Fatalities were even more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early days of mass automobile use—i.e.
, the 1920s—auto fatalities per million vehicle miles traveled ( VMT ) were many times higher than they are now .
In 1925 , for instance , fatalities totaled 16.9 per million VMT .
Twenty fifteen ’ s rate was 1.2 .
In 1974 , when the NMSL was passed , fatalities per million VMT were nearly triple what they are today , totaling 3.5 .
On a per capita basis , fatalities were significantly higher in the past as well .
In 1974 , accident fatalities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11.6 by 2015 .
Source : National Center for Statistics and Analysis , 2017 Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes : Overview ( Washington , DC : National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , 2018 ) .
Fatalities per capita reached a postwar peak during the 1960s , although road fatalities have been generally declining for decades now .
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Supporters of the “ 55 Saves Lives ” campaign were happy to take credit for the decline in auto fatalities during the 1970s and 1980s .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Council claimed that when traffic fatalities fell by 9,100 from 1973 to 1974 , the new speed limits could be credited with as many as 5,000 lives saved .
A 1980 report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 41,951 lives were saved by lower speed limits from 1974 to 1979 .
Many researchers claimed—rather plausibly—that lowered speeds resulted in fewer fatalities .
As the World Health Organization ( WHO ) has concluded , “ Studies suggest that a 1 km/h decrease in traveling speed would lead to a 2–3 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when auto accidents do occur , they ’ re more likely to be fatal at higher speeds .
This all makes sense , of course .
The faster the speed at which one is traveling , the less time one has to react an unexpected event up ahead .
Impact at 80 miles per hour is more deadly than impact at 60 miles per hour .
In spite of all this , however , political opposition to the NMSL grew and noncompliance was widespread .
After all , the safety measures were not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long distances , time in the car could be significantly reduced by driving faster than 55 mph .
Given that long commute times have been shown to impact the health of commuters , speeding up one ’ s commute is no mere luxury .
The effects of reduced speed limits on the cost of living could also be significant .
The reduced speeds applied to all commercial drivers as well , increasing the cost of shipping goods while raising prices and reducing employment in services that involved driving a large number of highway @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American motorists overwhelmingly traveled at speeds in excess of 55 miles per hour .
Many states with large rural areas—where speedy road travel was most economically valuable—found ways to minimize enforcement through measures such as reducing fines and not counting speeding tickets against driver ’ s license “ points.
” As repeal drew near , a 1995 column in the Los Angeles Times compared the national speed limit to national alcohol prohibition and called the speed limit mandate the “ most-violated law in American history.
” The author noted that the speed limit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a scheme to collect government revenue .
Indeed , many state and local governments were happy to take advantage of the lower speed limits as an opportunity to ticket drivers who drove over fifty-five in the middle of nowhere .
Yet by 1995 , political opposition was sufficient to lead to the total repeal of the National Maximum Speed Law .
At that point , most states went back to speed limit laws similar to what had existed before the adoption of the NMSL .
Americans were happy to drive at higher—and potentially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tickets .
Through it all , in spite of repeated efforts by government officials and safety activists to harangue motorists into slowing down , American motorists showed they were willing to accept higher risk of death in order to travel more quickly on highways .
This was especially true when it became that clear safety could be enhanced in other ways .
These included better safety features on the cars themselves and constructing safer highways .
Nonetheless , as fatality rates increased rapidly during the 1960s , Americans bought more cars and drove @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the very beginning of the days of automobile driving , Americans had simply come to terms with the fact that driving fast is a fairly risky activity .
But the fact remains that hundreds of thousands of Americans die in auto accidents every decade .
Decade after decade .
It is likely that this will prove instructive in the age of COVID-19 lockdowns as Americans are told to abandon in-person activities such as schooling , put off important medical treatments , and close their businesses because all these things might save lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slow down to reduce traffic deaths .
Will they be willing to live in isolation in the hope that they might help reduce COVID-19 deaths ?
Experience suggests many will not .
If We Treated Traffic Deaths Like We Do COVID Deaths On the other hand , Americans might be more cautious about driving were government agencies and media to take an approach similar to what they have done with COVID-19 deaths .
Massage Gun , Upgraded ... Buy New $ 94.99 ( $ 94.99 / Count ) Imagine a world where the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ total nationwide traffic deaths while framing those deaths as a problem to be solved through nationwide collective action and draconian government policies .
Imagine if the New York Times every year published a huge front-page article along the lines of this week ’ s headline : “ US Deaths Near 100,000 , An Incalculable Loss.
” This would mean an annual headline like “ Traffic Deaths Near 40,000 , an Incalculable Loss.
” The Times would then go on to list the tens of thousands of people killed each year in auto accidents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or just stay home rather than burdening the highways with unsafe amounts of traffic .
Dead mothers and children and grandfathers would be profiled and listed in large national publications illustrating the grievous burden of death imposed on daily life by unnecessary driving .
Fearmongering clickbait websites like The Drudge Report would post daily articles about the gruesome details of heinous deaths that had occurred on our nation ’ s roads the week before .
It ’ s possible that in the face of all that , many Americans might think twice about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ errands .
After all , by staying out of your car and off the roads , “ the life you save may be your own.
” Or , as is now happening , the daily drumbeat of death may recede into the background and people will simply accept that we must daily assess the amount of risk we are willing to accept as a result of our activities .
In the days of “ 55 Saves Lives ” countless Americans were willing to flout the speed limit laws in order to take on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legal penalties .
The sanctimonious hectoring from safety officials and activists didn ’ t stop them .
Stay-at-home orders are likely to experience a similar fate .
Strictly-enforced reduced speed limits still have their advocates .
Lee S. Friedman et al .
write : We found a 3.2 % increase in road fatalities attributable to the raised speed limits on all road types in the United States .
The highest increases were on rural interstates ( 9.1 % ) and urban interstates ( 4.0 % ) .
We estimated that 12 545 deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] = 8739 , 16 352 ) and 36 583 injuries in fatal crashes…were attributable to increases in speed limits across the United States.…Reduced speed limits and improved enforcement with speed camera networks could immediately reduce speeds and save lives , in addition to reducing gas consumption , cutting emissions of air pollutants , saving valuable years of productivity , and reducing the cost of motor vehicle crashes.See Lee S. Friedman , Donald Hedeker , and Elihu D. Richter , “ Long-Term Effects of Repealing the National Maximum Speed Limit in the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Health 99 , no .
9 ( September 2009 ) : 1626–31 , https : //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724439/ .
Note : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
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During the oil crises of the 1970s, Congress attempted to lower gasoline consumption by mandating a lowered speed limit for vehicles on all highways. But the efforts quickly evolved into a national campaign to increase traffic safety through lowered speed limits. Government data showed that thousands of lives could be saved per year by enforcing lower speed limits.
Millions of American motorists, however, were unimpressed. Widespread noncompliance resulted as many Americans concluded it was better to accept higher risk of death on highways—for themselves and for those around them—than to travel at reduced speeds. Government propaganda efforts such as the “55 Saves Lives” slogan proved ineffective, and the national speed limit was repealed in 1995.
The experience may be instructive today as many American policymakers insist that Americans must accept ongoing mass lockdowns and stay-at-home orders in the name of reducing deaths from COVID-19. Yet given that Americans have proven to be unwilling to reduce highway speeds—even in the face of the threat of traffic citations and deadly accidents—it is likely that they will soon be generally ignoring the lectures from “experts” and policymakers about the righteousness of destroying businesses and livelihoods in the name of safety. Popcornopolis Gourmet ... Buy New $39.99 ($0.83 / Ounce) (as of 03:59 UTC - Details)
A National Speed Limit
In 1974, Congress passed the National Maximum Speed Law (NMSL). The bill mandated that states lower maximum allowable highway speeds to 55 miles per hour in order to receive federal highway funds. Most states up to that time had speed limits ranging from 60 mph to 70 mph.
The law was passed in the hope that lower speeds would lead to lower gasoline consumption in the midst of the oil crisis at the time.
Yet when the oil crises ebbed and the price of oil crashed in the early 1980s, the national speed limit law remained.
By then, supporters of the law were claiming that a 55-mph speed limit was necessary as a safety measure and that it saved thousands of lives each year. One 1977 public service announcement claimed that “since 1974, 55 has been the single biggest factor in reducing highway deaths, by 36,000 people. One of them may be you.” A 1978 announcement concluded, “55 mph. It’s a law we can live with.” The narrator reminded viewers: “by 1975, highway deaths were down by over 9,000 since 1973.…all of us, by slowing down, helped save more than 9,000 people.”

The goal was laudable. Nowadays, more than 38,000 people die every year in crashes on US roadways. An additional 4.4 million are injured seriously enough to require medical attention, and auto accidents are the leading cause of death in the US for people aged 1–54.
Fatalities were even more common in the past. In the early days of mass automobile use—i.e., the 1920s—auto fatalities per million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) were many times higher than they are now. In 1925, for instance, fatalities totaled 16.9 per million VMT. Twenty fifteen’s rate was 1.2. In 1974, when the NMSL was passed, fatalities per million VMT were nearly triple what they are today, totaling 3.5.
On a per capita basis, fatalities were significantly higher in the past as well. In 1974, accident fatalities totaled 21.1 per 100,000 but were only 11.6 by 2015.
Source: National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 2017 Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes: Overview (Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2018). Fatalities per capita reached a postwar peak during the 1960s, although road fatalities have been generally declining for decades now.
Dad Joke Loading | Fun... Check Amazon for Pricing. Supporters of the “55 Saves Lives” campaign were happy to take credit for the decline in auto fatalities during the 1970s and 1980s. A 1984 report from the National Research Council claimed that when traffic fatalities fell by 9,100 from 1973 to 1974, the new speed limits could be credited with as many as 5,000 lives saved. A 1980 report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 41,951 lives were saved by lower speed limits from 1974 to 1979.
Many researchers claimed—rather plausibly—that lowered speeds resulted in fewer fatalities. As the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded, “Studies suggest that a 1 km/h decrease in traveling speed would lead to a 2–3% reduction in road crashes.” Moreover, when auto accidents do occur, they’re more likely to be fatal at higher speeds. This all makes sense, of course. The faster the speed at which one is traveling, the less time one has to react an unexpected event up ahead. Impact at 80 miles per hour is more deadly than impact at 60 miles per hour.
The National Speed Limit Is Repealed
In spite of all this, however, political opposition to the NMSL grew and noncompliance was widespread.
After all, the safety measures were not without cost. For those who commuted long distances, time in the car could be significantly reduced by driving faster than 55 mph. Given that long commute times have been shown to impact the health of commuters, speeding up one’s commute is no mere luxury. The effects of reduced speed limits on the cost of living could also be significant. The reduced speeds applied to all commercial drivers as well, increasing the cost of shipping goods while raising prices and reducing employment in services that involved driving a large number of highway miles.
Not surprisingly, then, American motorists overwhelmingly traveled at speeds in excess of 55 miles per hour. Many states with large rural areas—where speedy road travel was most economically valuable—found ways to minimize enforcement through measures such as reducing fines and not counting speeding tickets against driver’s license “points.”
As repeal drew near, a 1995 column in the Los Angeles Times compared the national speed limit to national alcohol prohibition and called the speed limit mandate the “most-violated law in American history.”
The author noted that the speed limit mandates had largely become little more than a scheme to collect government revenue. Indeed, many state and local governments were happy to take advantage of the lower speed limits as an opportunity to ticket drivers who drove over fifty-five in the middle of nowhere. Yet by 1995, political opposition was sufficient to lead to the total repeal of the National Maximum Speed Law. At that point, most states went back to speed limit laws similar to what had existed before the adoption of the NMSL. Americans were happy to drive at higher—and potentially more deadly—speeds with lessened risk of speeding tickets.
Americans Accepted Higher Risk for Higher Speed
Through it all, in spite of repeated efforts by government officials and safety activists to harangue motorists into slowing down, American motorists showed they were willing to accept higher risk of death in order to travel more quickly on highways. This was especially true when it became that clear safety could be enhanced in other ways. These included better safety features on the cars themselves and constructing safer highways. Nonetheless, as fatality rates increased rapidly during the 1960s, Americans bought more cars and drove more miles.
But, overall, from the very beginning of the days of automobile driving, Americans had simply come to terms with the fact that driving fast is a fairly risky activity. But the fact remains that hundreds of thousands of Americans die in auto accidents every decade. Decade after decade.
It is likely that this will prove instructive in the age of COVID-19 lockdowns as Americans are told to abandon in-person activities such as schooling, put off important medical treatments, and close their businesses because all these things might save lives.
Americans weren’t willing to slow down to reduce traffic deaths. Will they be willing to live in isolation in the hope that they might help reduce COVID-19 deaths? Experience suggests many will not.
If We Treated Traffic Deaths Like We Do COVID Deaths
On the other hand, Americans might be more cautious about driving were government agencies and media to take an approach similar to what they have done with COVID-19 deaths. Massage Gun, Upgraded ... Buy New $94.99 ($94.99 / Count) (as of 03:59 UTC - Details)
Imagine a world where the media reports daily with above-the-fold headlines on total nationwide traffic deaths while framing those deaths as a problem to be solved through nationwide collective action and draconian government policies. Imagine if the New York Times every year published a huge front-page article along the lines of this week’s headline: “US Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss.” This would mean an annual headline like “Traffic Deaths Near 40,000, an Incalculable Loss.” The Times would then go on to list the tens of thousands of people killed each year in auto accidents because irresponsible people refused to slow down or just stay home rather than burdening the highways with unsafe amounts of traffic. Dead mothers and children and grandfathers would be profiled and listed in large national publications illustrating the grievous burden of death imposed on daily life by unnecessary driving. Fearmongering clickbait websites like The Drudge Report would post daily articles about the gruesome details of heinous deaths that had occurred on our nation’s roads the week before.
It’s possible that in the face of all that, many Americans might think twice about making “nonessential” road trips or errands. After all, by staying out of your car and off the roads, “the life you save may be your own.”
Or, as is now happening, the daily drumbeat of death may recede into the background and people will simply accept that we must daily assess the amount of risk we are willing to accept as a result of our activities.
In the days of “55 Saves Lives” countless Americans were willing to flout the speed limit laws in order to take on greater risk of both traffic accidents and legal penalties. The sanctimonious hectoring from safety officials and activists didn’t stop them. Stay-at-home orders are likely to experience a similar fate.
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Strictly-enforced reduced speed limits still have their advocates. Lee S. Friedman et al. write:We found a 3.2% increase in road fatalities attributable to the raised speed limits on all road types in the United States. The highest increases were on rural interstates (9.1%) and urban interstates (4.0%). We estimated that 12 545 deaths (95% confidence interval [CI] = 8739, 16 352) and 36 583 injuries in fatal crashes…were attributable to increases in speed limits across the United States.…Reduced speed limits and improved enforcement with speed camera networks could immediately reduce speeds and save lives, in addition to reducing gas consumption, cutting emissions of air pollutants, saving valuable years of productivity, and reducing the cost of motor vehicle crashes.See Lee S. Friedman, Donald Hedeker, and Elihu D. Richter, “Long-Term Effects of Repealing the National Maximum Speed Limit in the United States,” American Journal of Public Health 99, no. 9 (September 2009): 1626–31, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724439/.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-28--How the British Empire Created and Killed George Orwell

The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , happily amplified by the Public Broadcasting System ( PBS ) in the United States which carries its World News , continues to pump out its regular dreck about the alleged economic chaos in Russia and the imagined miserable state of the Russian people .
It is all lies of course .
Patrick Armstrong ‘ s authoritative regular updates including his reports on this website are a necessary corrective to such crude propaganda .
But amid all their countless fiascoes and failures in every other field ( including the highest per capita death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the highest in the world ) the British remain world leaders at managing global Fake News .
As long as the tone remains restrained and dignified , literally any slander will be swallowed by the credulous and every foul scandal and shame can be confidently covered up .
1984 ( Signet Classics ) George Orwell Best Price : $ 1.49 Buy New $ 3.58 None of this would have surprised the late , great George Orwell .
It is fashionable these days to endlessly trot him out as a zombie ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so that he can not set the record straight himself ) critic of Russia and all the other global news outlets outside the control of the New York and London plutocracies .
And it is certainly true , that Orwell , whose hatred and fear of communism was very real , served before his death as an informer to MI-5 , British domestic security .
But it was not the Soviet Union , Stalin ’ s show trials or his experiences with the Trotskyite POUM group in Barcelona and Catalonia during the Spanish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” as the Anglo-America Conventional Wisdom Narrative has it .
It was his visceral loathing of the British Empire – compounded during World War II by his work for the BBC which he eventually gave up in disgust .
And it was his BBC experiences that gave Orwell the model for his unforgettable Ministry of Truth in his great classic “ 1984.
” George Orwell had worked in one of the greatest of all world centers of Fake News .
And he knew it .
More profoundly , the great secret of George @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in plain sight for 70 years since he died .
Orwell became a sadistic torturer in the service of the British Empire during his years in Burma , modern Myanmar .
And as a fundamentally decent man , he was so disgusted by what he had done that he spent the rest of his life not just atoning but slowly and willfully committing suicide before his heartbreakingly premature death while still in his 40s .
The first important breakthrough in this fundamental reassessment of Orwell comes from one of the best books on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Burma ” was published in 2005 and written by “ Emma Larkin ” , a pseudonym for an outstanding American journalist in Asia whose identity I have long suspected to be an old friend and deeply respected colleague , and whose continued anonymity I respect .
“ Larkin ” took the trouble to travel widely in Burma during its repressive military dictatorship and her superb research reveals crucial truths about Orwell .
According to his own writings and his deeply autobiographical novel “ Burmese Days ” Orwell loathed all his time as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Myanmar .
The impression he systematically gives in that novel and in his classic essay “ Shooting an Elephant ” is of a bitterly lonely , alienated , deeply unhappy man , despised and even loathed by his fellow British colonialists throughout society and a ludicrous failure at his job .
This was not , however , the reality that “ Larkin ” uncovered .
All surviving witnesses agreed that Orwell – Eric Blair as he then still was – remained held in high regard during his years in the colonial police service @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officer .
Indeed it was precisely his knowledge of crime , vice , murder and the general underside of human society during his police colonial service while still in his 20s that gave him the street smarts , experience , and moral authority to see through all the countless lies of right and left , of American capitalists and British imperialists as well as European totalitarians for the rest of his life .
Finding George Orwell ... Larkin , Emma Best Price : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 9.42 The second revelation to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do in those years comes from one of the most famous and horrifying scenes in “ 1984.
” Indeed , almost nothing even in the memoirs of Nazi death camp survivors has anything like it : That is the scene where “ O ’ Brien ” , the secret police officer tortures the “ hero ” ( if he can be called that ) Winston Smith by locking his face to a cage in which a starving rat is ready to pounce and devour him if it is opened .
I remember thinking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the power of “ 1984 ” at my outstanding Northern Irish school , “ What kind of mind could invent something as horrific as that ?
” ) The answer was so obvious that I like everyone else missed it entirely .
Orwell did not “ invent ” or “ come up ” with the idea as a fictional plot device : It was just a routine interrogation technique used by the British colonial police in Burma , modern Myanmar .
Orwell never “ brilliantly ” invented such a diabolical technique of torture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not have to imagine it .
It was routinely employed by himself and his colleagues .
That was how and why the British Empire worked so well for so long .
They knew what they were doing .
And what they did was not nice at all .
A final step in my enlightenment about Orwell , whose writings I have revered all my life – and still do – was provided by our alarmingly brilliant elder daughter about a decade ago when she too was given “ 1984 ” to read as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it with her one day , I made some casual obvious remark that Orwell was in the novel as Winston Smith .
My American-raised teenager then naturally corrected me .
“ No , Dad , ” she said .
“ Orwell isn ’ t Winston , or he ’ s not just Winston .
He ’ s O ’ Brien too .
O ’ Brien actually likes Winston .
He doesn ’ t want to torture him .
He even admires him .
But he does it because it ’ s his duty.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But how could Orwell the great enemy of tyranny , lies and torture so identify with and understand so well the torturer ?
It was because he himself had been one .
“ Emma Larkin ’ s ” great book brings out that Orwell as a senior colonial police officer in the 1920s was a leading figure in a ruthless war waged by the British imperial authorities against drug and human trafficking crime cartels every bit as vicious and ruthless as those in modern Ukraine , Columbia and Mexico today .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where anything and everything was permitted to “ get the job done.
” Burmese Days : A Novel Orwell , George Best Price : $ 2.23 Buy New $ 8.37 The young Eric Blair was so disgusted by the experience that when he returned home he abandoned the respectable middle class life style he had always enjoyed and became , not just an idealistic socialist as many in those days did , but a penniless , starving tramp .
He even abandoned his name and very identity .
He suffered a radical personality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He became George Orwell .
Orwell ’ s early famous book “ Down and Out in London and Paris ” is a testament to how much he literally tortured and humiliated himself in those first years back from Burma .
And for the rest of his life .
He ate miserably badly , was skinny and ravaged by tuberculosis and other health problems , smoked heavily and denied himself any decent medical care .
His appearance was always abominable .
His friend , the writer Malcolm Muggeridge speculated that Orwell wanted to remake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The truth clearly was that Orwell never forgave himself for what he did as a young agent of empire in Burma .
Even his literally suicidal decision to go to the most primitive , cold , wet and poverty-stricken corner of creation in a remote island off Scotland to finish “ 1984 ” in isolation before he died was consistent with the merciless punishments he had inflicted on himself all his life since leaving Burma .
The conclusion is clear : For all the intensity of George Orwell ’ s experiences in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ integrity , his hatred of the abuse of power did not originate from his experiences in the Spanish Civil War .
They all flowed directly from his own actions as an agent of the British Empire in Burma in the 1920s : Just as his creation of the Ministry of Truth flowed directly from his experience of working in the Belly of the Beast of the BBC in the early 1940s .
Down and Out in Paris ... Orwell , George Best Price : $ 2.30 Buy New $ 7.40 George Orwell spent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because of the terrible crimes he committed as a torturer for the British Empire in Burma .
We can therefore have no doubt what his horror and disgust would be at what the CIA did under President George W. Bush in its “ Global War on Terror.
” Also , Orwell would identify at once and without hesitation the real fake news flowing out of New York , Atlanta , Washington and London today , just as he did in the 1930s and 1940s .
Let us therefore reclaim and embrace The Real @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to prevent a Third World War depends on it .
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), happily amplified by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the United States which carries its World News, continues to pump out its regular dreck about the alleged economic chaos in Russia and the imagined miserable state of the Russian people.
It is all lies of course. Patrick Armstrong‘s authoritative regular updates including his reports on this website are a necessary corrective to such crude propaganda.
But amid all their countless fiascoes and failures in every other field (including the highest per capita death rate from COVID-19 in Europe, and one of the highest in the world) the British remain world leaders at managing global Fake News. As long as the tone remains restrained and dignified, literally any slander will be swallowed by the credulous and every foul scandal and shame can be confidently covered up.
1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Best Price: $1.49 Buy New $3.58 (as of 10:53 UTC - Details) None of this would have surprised the late, great George Orwell. It is fashionable these days to endlessly trot him out as a zombie (dead but alleged to be living – so that he cannot set the record straight himself) critic of Russia and all the other global news outlets outside the control of the New York and London plutocracies. And it is certainly true, that Orwell, whose hatred and fear of communism was very real, served before his death as an informer to MI-5, British domestic security.
But it was not the Soviet Union, Stalin’s show trials or his experiences with the Trotskyite POUM group in Barcelona and Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War that “made Orwell Orwell” as the Anglo-America Conventional Wisdom Narrative has it. It was his visceral loathing of the British Empire – compounded during World War II by his work for the BBC which he eventually gave up in disgust.
And it was his BBC experiences that gave Orwell the model for his unforgettable Ministry of Truth in his great classic “1984.”
George Orwell had worked in one of the greatest of all world centers of Fake News. And he knew it.
More profoundly, the great secret of George Orwell’s life has been hiding in plain sight for 70 years since he died. Orwell became a sadistic torturer in the service of the British Empire during his years in Burma, modern Myanmar. And as a fundamentally decent man, he was so disgusted by what he had done that he spent the rest of his life not just atoning but slowly and willfully committing suicide before his heartbreakingly premature death while still in his 40s.
The first important breakthrough in this fundamental reassessment of Orwell comes from one of the best books on him. “Finding George Orwell in Burma” was published in 2005 and written by “Emma Larkin”, a pseudonym for an outstanding American journalist in Asia whose identity I have long suspected to be an old friend and deeply respected colleague, and whose continued anonymity I respect.
“Larkin” took the trouble to travel widely in Burma during its repressive military dictatorship and her superb research reveals crucial truths about Orwell. According to his own writings and his deeply autobiographical novel “Burmese Days” Orwell loathed all his time as a British colonial policeman in Burma, modern Myanmar. The impression he systematically gives in that novel and in his classic essay “Shooting an Elephant” is of a bitterly lonely, alienated, deeply unhappy man, despised and even loathed by his fellow British colonialists throughout society and a ludicrous failure at his job.
This was not, however, the reality that “Larkin” uncovered. All surviving witnesses agreed that Orwell – Eric Blair as he then still was – remained held in high regard during his years in the colonial police service. He was a senior and efficient officer. Indeed it was precisely his knowledge of crime, vice, murder and the general underside of human society during his police colonial service while still in his 20s that gave him the street smarts, experience, and moral authority to see through all the countless lies of right and left, of American capitalists and British imperialists as well as European totalitarians for the rest of his life. Finding George Orwell ... Larkin, Emma Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $9.42 (as of 02:44 UTC - Details)
The second revelation to throw light on what Orwell had to do in those years comes from one of the most famous and horrifying scenes in “1984.” Indeed, almost nothing even in the memoirs of Nazi death camp survivors has anything like it: That is the scene where “O’Brien”, the secret police officer tortures the “hero” (if he can be called that) Winston Smith by locking his face to a cage in which a starving rat is ready to pounce and devour him if it is opened.
I remember thinking, when I was first exposed to the power of “1984” at my outstanding Northern Irish school, “What kind of mind could invent something as horrific as that?”) The answer was so obvious that I like everyone else missed it entirely.
Orwell did not “invent” or “come up” with the idea as a fictional plot device: It was just a routine interrogation technique used by the British colonial police in Burma, modern Myanmar. Orwell never “brilliantly” invented such a diabolical technique of torture as a literary device. He did not have to imagine it. It was routinely employed by himself and his colleagues. That was how and why the British Empire worked so well for so long. They knew what they were doing. And what they did was not nice at all.
A final step in my enlightenment about Orwell, whose writings I have revered all my life – and still do – was provided by our alarmingly brilliant elder daughter about a decade ago when she too was given “1984” to read as part of her school curriculum. Discussing it with her one day, I made some casual obvious remark that Orwell was in the novel as Winston Smith.
My American-raised teenager then naturally corrected me. “No, Dad, ” she said. “Orwell isn’t Winston, or he’s not just Winston. He’s O’Brien too. O’Brien actually likes Winston. He doesn’t want to torture him. He even admires him. But he does it because it’s his duty.”
She was right, of course.
But how could Orwell the great enemy of tyranny, lies and torture so identify with and understand so well the torturer? It was because he himself had been one.
“Emma Larkin’s” great book brings out that Orwell as a senior colonial police officer in the 1920s was a leading figure in a ruthless war waged by the British imperial authorities against drug and human trafficking crime cartels every bit as vicious and ruthless as those in modern Ukraine, Columbia and Mexico today. It was a “war on terror” where anything and everything was permitted to “get the job done.” Burmese Days: A Novel Orwell, George Best Price: $2.23 Buy New $8.37 (as of 04:00 UTC - Details)
The young Eric Blair was so disgusted by the experience that when he returned home he abandoned the respectable middle class life style he had always enjoyed and became, not just an idealistic socialist as many in those days did, but a penniless, starving tramp. He even abandoned his name and very identity. He suffered a radical personality collapse: He killed Eric Blair. He became George Orwell.
Orwell’s early famous book “Down and Out in London and Paris” is a testament to how much he literally tortured and humiliated himself in those first years back from Burma. And for the rest of his life.
He ate miserably badly, was skinny and ravaged by tuberculosis and other health problems, smoked heavily and denied himself any decent medical care. His appearance was always abominable. His friend, the writer Malcolm Muggeridge speculated that Orwell wanted to remake himself as a caricature of a tramp.
The truth clearly was that Orwell never forgave himself for what he did as a young agent of empire in Burma. Even his literally suicidal decision to go to the most primitive, cold, wet and poverty-stricken corner of creation in a remote island off Scotland to finish “1984” in isolation before he died was consistent with the merciless punishments he had inflicted on himself all his life since leaving Burma.
The conclusion is clear: For all the intensity of George Orwell’s experiences in Spain, his passion for truth and integrity, his hatred of the abuse of power did not originate from his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. They all flowed directly from his own actions as an agent of the British Empire in Burma in the 1920s: Just as his creation of the Ministry of Truth flowed directly from his experience of working in the Belly of the Beast of the BBC in the early 1940s. Down and Out in Paris ... Orwell, George Best Price: $2.30 Buy New $7.40 (as of 08:25 UTC - Details)
George Orwell spent more than 20 years slowly committing suicide because of the terrible crimes he committed as a torturer for the British Empire in Burma. We can therefore have no doubt what his horror and disgust would be at what the CIA did under President George W. Bush in its “Global War on Terror.” Also, Orwell would identify at once and without hesitation the real fake news flowing out of New York, Atlanta, Washington and London today, just as he did in the 1930s and 1940s.
Let us therefore reclaim and embrace The Real George Orwell: The cause of fighting to prevent a Third World War depends on it.
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.


lewrockwell--2020-05-28--The Nature of the Virus

The Nature of the Virus

Opinion journalism in the respectable outlets has increasingly come to be dominated during the Great Awokening of the past half-dozen years by young Women of Color with soft major degrees who take whatever topic is in the news—global pandemic , Ukrainegate impeachment , a tribal elder being smirked at—and relate it to how society must learn to idolize more the beauty of women such as , to take a random example , themselves .
Also , they tend to be extreme antiquarians who don ’ t seem to be cognizant of any history since the end of Jim Crow or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ example of this long-running trend appeared in The New York Times on Memorial Day when sociologist Sabrina Strings , author of Fearing the Black Body : The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia , weighed in with : The Complete Book of W ... Mark Johanson Best Price : $ 13.49 Buy New $ 14.00 To prove her hypothesis , she recounts her experience as “ the only black person in the room ” ( a repetitious trope in this school of op-edizing ) when she explained to public health experts why black people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go .
Professor Strings went on to explain : The Complete Manual of ... Day , David Best Price : $ 7.68 Buy New $ 16.91 And that ’ s why African-Americans are so weak and puny today .
For example , only 29 of the 32 first-round picks in the 2020 National Football League draft were black .
If blacks weren ’ t still so malnourished from their slavery days , they would have made up 33 of the first 32 selected .
Good Clean Fun : Misadv ... Offerman , Nick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 18.91 The important thing in this school of op-edery is that you never , ever attribute any black health problems to black tendencies toward obesity , diabetes , high blood pressure , or the like .
It ’ s all slavery .
And redlining : In reality ( and reality is rather important at present ) , coronavirus tends to kill the old , the obese , and the sickly .
America , like Britain , though , has a lot of citizens who aren ’ t in the best of shape @ @ @ @ @ @ @ died here than in Italy , where the infection spread widest in some quite fit towns in the foothills of the Alps and hence almost only the very old died .
Here in the U.S. 19.3 % of official coronavirus deaths have been under 65 and 40.3 % under 75 .
The median age of the deceased has been around 70 , compared with 79 in Italy .

Opinion journalism in the respectable outlets has increasingly come to be dominated during the Great Awokening of the past half-dozen years by young Women of Color with soft major degrees who take whatever topic is in the news—global pandemic, Ukrainegate impeachment, a tribal elder being smirked at—and relate it to how society must learn to idolize more the beauty of women such as, to take a random example, themselves. Also, they tend to be extreme antiquarians who don’t seem to be cognizant of any history since the end of Jim Crow or even of slavery.
Perhaps the funniest example of this long-running trend appeared in The New York Times on Memorial Day when sociologist Sabrina Strings, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, weighed in with:
It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery.
We know why Covid-19 is killing so many black people.
The Complete Book of W... Mark Johanson Best Price: $13.49 Buy New $14.00 (as of 04:01 UTC - Details) To prove her hypothesis, she recounts her experience as “the only black person in the room” (a repetitious trope in this school of op-edizing) when she explained to public health experts why black people are sick:
My answer was swift and unequivocal:
“Slavery.”
Well, there you go.
Professor Strings went on to explain: The Complete Manual of... Day, David Best Price: $7.68 Buy New $16.91 (as of 04:01 UTC - Details)
The era of slavery was when white Americans determined that black Americans needed only the bare necessities, not enough to keep them optimally safe and healthy. It set in motion black people’s diminished access to healthy foods, safe working conditions, medical treatment and a host of other social inequities that negatively impact health.
And that’s why African-Americans are so weak and puny today. For example, only 29 of the 32 first-round picks in the 2020 National Football League draft were black. If blacks weren’t still so malnourished from their slavery days, they would have made up 33 of the first 32 selected.
That’s just The Science.
Good Clean Fun: Misadv... Offerman, Nick Best Price: $7.98 Buy New $18.91 (as of 04:01 UTC - Details) The important thing in this school of op-edery is that you never, ever attribute any black health problems to black tendencies toward obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, or the like. It’s all slavery. And redlining:
In a recent essay addressing Covid-19 specifically, Rashawn Ray underscored the legacy of redlining that pushed black people into poor, densely populated communities often with limited access to health care.
In reality (and reality is rather important at present), coronavirus tends to kill the old, the obese, and the sickly. America, like Britain, though, has a lot of citizens who aren’t in the best of shape, so somewhat more middle-aged people have died here than in Italy, where the infection spread widest in some quite fit towns in the foothills of the Alps and hence almost only the very old died.
Here in the U.S. 19.3% of official coronavirus deaths have been under 65 and 40.3% under 75. The median age of the deceased has been around 70, compared with 79 in Italy.
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