MAID (aka assisted suicide in Canada) is actually good and the vast majority of criticisms of it are just conservative scaremongering propaganda

of course now it all makes sense. wars have end dates, winners, narratives featuring Great Men.

pandemics have none of this. there is no end date. everyone loses. nobody wants to think about any of it ever again.

I remember thinking how strange it was that no one ever spoke about the spanish flu of 1918—when twice as many people died as in WWII. I never heard about it in any history class

it's incredible that we don't have a single memorial, or a day of remembrance, or really any meaningful attempt to collectively process the scale of loss and trauma we all experienced as a country or as a world