It fuckin sucks.
If California had it like we do it'd be seeing 40,000 cases and 800 deaths a day.
Native Americans are dying at like 5 times the rate of whites. Here in MT entire Native towns have it. The elders are dying and with them their knowledge. It's cultural genocide and hardly anyone white or powerful gives a shit.
The municipal death of the little towns is accelerated. A third of the businesses near me were closed pre-2020 and now another third are boarded up or on their way there.
My friend's an RN at an ICU here and they've been full-to-bursting for weeks. None of her covid patients recover. They all die. Three weeks ago Idaho was sending their excess cases here. Now we're sending our cases to WA. As of today she's taking a couple weeks' break from tending the dying because the household's quarantined: her teen daughter has significantly symptomatic covid. Caught it at school because all MT schools have been in-person since September. When those kids go to thanksgiving it's going to kill so many thousands of grandparents.
The heavily reactionary white population's social media is further darkenening as the Steal is not being Stopped. The chuds are disappearing from facebook in their exodus to Parler and other venues where they are siloing themselves off to post at themselves until they finally drown in their lungs. All expectations being reduced to bare life, if that. The slow cancellation of the future not slow no more.
Remember that new congressman who was recorded body-slamming the Guardian reporter a few years back and breaking his little nerd glasses? That guy just got elected Governor. He's a rich tech goon from Maryland in the mold of Peter Thiel and within a year he's going to kick me off Medicaid. State Democrats used to win elections here and they don't any more and never will again. Montana's going to run the Kansas Experiment 2.0 and it's about to get stripped of its copper wiring.
There's nothing left to do but sit at home and glower at your screen while the last tattered scraps of community and economy dry up and blow away, and death seeps in between the boards and through the cracks.
Spare a thought if you please and will the last one to die please turn out the lights
Was the logical conclusion of capitalism and an industrial society under it.
The idea is that pre-contact/post-contact transition is basically an apocalyptic-scale cataclysm for Indigenous nations and anyone who got shipped over here on a boat for slavery.
Which frankly, it is. A 9/10 depopulation of the continent is like the premise of some bog standard sci-fi apocalypse story for sure.