How many American celebrities still in their primes have died from COVID? Stage actor Nick Cordero, songwriter Adam Schlesinger ... after that I'm drawing a blank. Maybe Herman Cain at age 74 ... Here's Wikipedia's list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_due_to_COVID-19 … Who do you find?
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I'm starting to think that American popular culture lost more future accomplishment in that 1959 small plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, age 22, Ritchie "La Bamba" Valens, 17(!), and the Big "Chantilly Lace" Bopper, 28 than in all the COVID deaths so far.
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American rock music dragged for a half decade after the Buddy Holly crash until the British Invasion revived it. Ritchie Valens, only 17, was on a trajectory to be the most famous Mexican-American ever.
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If there is a parallel universe where AIDS never happened, I imagine popular culture there looks very different.
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In a parallel universe where AIDS never happened a different plague emerges. AIDS was just the first to exploit that massive opportunity by the new ecological niche created by a change in human behavior.
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