time for another optimism thread 1) city budgets are about to go to shit. this will make random left wing city councils less utopian and less eager to destroy the world to save it 2) i think corona deaths are going to stay relatively stable at their current plateau, not jump up.
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3) the crime surge arriving so quickly is making people nervous and reducing pressure to totally destroy law enforcement 4) a mostly back to normal fall (schools open but weird schedules or weird procedures, most but not all things open) will feel much better than you might think
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5) the institutions going craziest right now are like, i dunno, a respiratory virus that doesn't make you that sick unless you're already weakened in some way. you need to assume they're dangerous, but their ability to kill you specifically is a lot more limited than they'd like.
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6) vaccines are making big time progress,it's not crazy that they will start bringing us back to earth next year (with very gradual roll out) 7) 2021 will feel more normal than 2020. olympics, sports, movies, travel -not the world you knew before, but closer. 8) USA will survive
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I admire your optimism, Toad. Agree strongly on the first point: woke municipal government has never seen a budget shortfall. Going to be a rude awakening for them.
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