Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

My bank is drive through only without an appointment.
No big deal. I rarely go in anyway. Most of my banking is ATM once a month.
I haven't thought about it until now, but if I needed to get into my safety deposit box - and I can't think for the life of me why I would - somebody is letting me in.

 

fauchi virtue signaling for twitter he's so desirous for this to be worse just to look good for speaking engagements on college campuses

 

America is turning into a RISK playing board as we watch.

 

Every time you think someone on FOX has set the standard for stupidity, someone tops them in the next day or two.

 

33,000 deaths in the last 30 days

 

The virus and I have something in common.

 

There was a fun XBox game, released in 2005, called "Shattered Union" in which you fight the second American Civil War. The premise was that a rogue Russian general nuked Washington, D.C. during the 2008 inauguration following a contentious election (modeled after the 2000 election, but it could also apply to 2020) and the country broke up into a half-dozen different countries. Your job was to pick one faction and defeat the others to reunite the country. After you did that, you had to retake Alaska, which had been conquered by the Russians.

Shattered Union - Wikipedia

Anyway, the way that they split the factions actually had some thought behind it and the map they cooked up is starting to look more and more like what these pacts are shaping up as. And as much as I enjoyed the game, I'd rather not play it out in real life.

 

Crimson Skies, which was an entertaining computer and tabletop franchise, had the same idea but predated Shattered Union by several years. You played as a swashbuckling Robin Hood-type air pirate in a balkanized North America. It took place in an alternate version of the 1930s. In its backstory, the United States and Canada fell apart when the 1918 flu pandemic turned more virulent, followed by a second flu pandemic in 1927 and then the Depression.

 

To start, if America called it quits, Texas would immediately become independent and would probably rope in Oklahoma and New Mexico by sheer economic might. California would do the same on the West Coast, the rest of the old Confederacy sans Texas would reunite (with Virginia and West Virginia flipping historic roles ironically), and the Northeast would coalesce from Richmond north.

That leaves the Midwest and mountain states, where it could get interesting.