Spanish Flu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. Lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world’s population at the time – in four successive waves. The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between …

Elephants in Our Rooms ~ 01/29/21 ~ Janet Kira Lessin & Debra DeFranco

Kathleen Parker: The GOP isn’t doomed. It’s dead. 2 Proud Boys charged with conspiracy in Capitol riot; 1 had bomb-making manual on thumb drive, feds say https://news.yahoo.com/2-proud-boys-charged-conspiracy-151604873.html Did Brian Williams deliberately throw this magnificent shade at the 11th hour? Cartoon: why aren’t you voting for impeachment? She counted ballots in a pandemic, and he killed …

Stochastic Terrorism

stochastic terrorism [ stuh-kas-tik ter-uh-riz-uhm ] noun the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted: The lone-wolf attack was apparently influenced by the rhetoric of stochastic terrorism. Racism, sexism, xenophobia, prejudice, hate rhetoric create stochastic terrorism where people …