Thanks MF. Perhaps my Ogham were being literal -- I believe millions have died from the quaxx and millions more will die in the coming years. Approximately 25 million perished in the Black Death, and I don't think the quaxx will have any trouble killing off that many if it has not already. There are many stealth deaths that aren't attributed to the quaxx.
I used to want to move to Canada and I looked into it at one point. I love cold weather! I am glad my love of the frozen north never got me to move there. The people in charge up there are truly sick in the mind.
I agree with you: power, water, gas, and internet are not going anywhere soon. Neither are newly-constructed buildings that sit empty right alongside old, empty abandoned ones. Our species adores wastefulness. Airplanes aren't going to suddenly disappear from the skies, nor cars from the roads. But I do think the drop in fertility will cause my area of suburban Chicago to be more like Japan in a few years, where a bunch of old people watch everything slowly decay around them in genteel, civilized boredom. In Japan, there are far more adult diapers sold than baby ones any given year. That's kind of horrifying, but it isn't the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination.
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Re: Apocalypse Later
Date: 2023-01-19 05:34 am (UTC)I used to want to move to Canada and I looked into it at one point. I love cold weather! I am glad my love of the frozen north never got me to move there. The people in charge up there are truly sick in the mind.
I agree with you: power, water, gas, and internet are not going anywhere soon. Neither are newly-constructed buildings that sit empty right alongside old, empty abandoned ones. Our species adores wastefulness. Airplanes aren't going to suddenly disappear from the skies, nor cars from the roads. But I do think the drop in fertility will cause my area of suburban Chicago to be more like Japan in a few years, where a bunch of old people watch everything slowly decay around them in genteel, civilized boredom. In Japan, there are far more adult diapers sold than baby ones any given year. That's kind of horrifying, but it isn't the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination.