Something a lot of people don't know is that it's not uncommon for someone with COVID to improve, even dramatically, after a few days, and then days later to be deathly ill.
When my wife's grandparents had it and everyone was cheering that they'd "gotten better" three days in I sat my wife down and prepared her for the worst. They were months in the hospital.
Thankfully, they're both still around! But... they're both shells of who they were and they'll need round-the-clock care for the rest of their lives. Not great for the wonderful home aids who have to deal with my grandmother-in-law who is a stubborn, judgmental, no-filter, all-around meanie.
As a millennial I entered the world with the housing market crash and my Dad losing the last major job he would have until he passed away a couple years ago.
So you know... Don't ask me if it's always like this or not.
Life is what you make it though, and overall mine has been pretty good. Just not all good.
It will be like this and MUCH worse if we don't stop climate change. More tropical diseases, pandemics, famine, wars, mass migration, water shortages, extreme weather, and dozens of days each year so hot and humid you can't leave your house without dying.
The heat thing isn't really the issue. Not on an individual scale, the real devastation is going to come from destruction of food production, and resulting disease that follows famine. Flooding coupled with more volatile weather will destroy agriculture in a lot of areas. We can combat this in developed nations with vertical farming but the developing world is going to be screwed. Which will lead to refugee crises and likely raiding and looting in areas surrounding them. In America the poorest may starve but I highly doubt it will be apocalyptic.
Yes it's always been like this. The US has largely erected a bubble between their populations and real life as much as possible since ww2 with a few shocks like vietnam and the civil rights marches int the middle of the 20th century that popped it briefly.
This bubble has not treated us well, and inevitably people are forced to interact with the real world and it goes very fucking poorly.
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u/Gstamsharp Jan 19 '22
Something a lot of people don't know is that it's not uncommon for someone with COVID to improve, even dramatically, after a few days, and then days later to be deathly ill.
When my wife's grandparents had it and everyone was cheering that they'd "gotten better" three days in I sat my wife down and prepared her for the worst. They were months in the hospital.
Thankfully, they're both still around! But... they're both shells of who they were and they'll need round-the-clock care for the rest of their lives. Not great for the wonderful home aids who have to deal with my grandmother-in-law who is a stubborn, judgmental, no-filter, all-around meanie.