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		ryandrake on March 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health c... In the past, people went off to war and some of them literally died for their country. Today, people won’t even so much as wear a little piece of cloth on their face while shopping for their khakis. We are doomed if the next COVID is 20x deadlier.

decafninja on March 22, 2021 [–]

I've heard the semi-joke that if this generation was the one involved in WWII, Americans (and many others in Europe and Asia) would be speaking deutsch or nihongo today.

Man in the High Castle, I suppose.

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