Health

The US has 4.29% of the world population. We have 25% of the world's Covid cases and 25% of the world's death toll from Covid. These are figures you'd expect from a failed state, and this is about where we are politically right now, the government rendered incapable of response by an orange slug in the White House and a vicious dogmatist in the Senate. What you see is what we got for the next seven months. There is nothing we can do about this except vote, that and make nuisances of ourselves who make sure everybody around us knows what is really going on out there.

What will be fascinating will be the two decades after the virus either runs its course and sinks into hiding or a vaccine is developed and distributed beyond the 0.1%, the latter necessitating the defeat of the slug and most of his enablers. By November, we should all know people who aren't there any more, thanks to their bungling and refusal to consult experts who might have been bad for business.

I'm getting up there, so I won't see it. Right now, I'm clinging to spite to keep me alive until I can help vote them out. Anything after that will be gravy.

I wish I could tell you it would be sunshine and roses, but it won't be. It will be bad enough that the world will pity us. And it will have happened in four years.