What a bizarre experience.
When I was in school…I’m pretty sure the state history cirriculum was designed to be America centric, and pro-America. Any nation a boomer would remember being at war with? Not in the history books, or they appear out of nowhere, do something pro-America, and then disappear again, like Russia did from 1939 to 1945. And both World and US history classes end at 1950 because 1. to the limp dicks that actually make the policy, “The fifties are practically now” and 2. we haven’t done much “being the good guys” since the jitterbug fell out of fashion.
So I’m not used to seeing something in a history textbook that isn’t from at least two of my lifetimes ago.
We homeschool our kids, and are religious, but we are heavily opposed to Christian nationalism, and want our kids to learn what actually happened, not some whitewashed curriculum that downplays anyone particular people’s ideological downfalls.
We found a curriculum, but it took a while. One of the first ones I opened to read through had a first chapter titled “God’s gift to the world through America” noped right out of that one…
We had the same textbooks I see.
I’d say to my kids: “I was there when it was written”
I was there, $name. I was there 4 years ago when the strength of men failed.
We’re going to look like such fucking idiots when people read about how we collectively handled it.
The only consolation, is that most of us looked at how many people were handling it at the time and said, “well they’re fucking idiots.”
The past tense in the book is concerning
A history textbook which goes past the 1960s? This definitely is not a book used in American classrooms
The first time I felt old was when my youngest sister learned about events I remembered in school.
“For a small number of people, the disease could be fatal.” Is three million people a small number? And as others have pointed out, the pandemic isn’t over. https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covid-19-estimating-global-excess-mortality
Another one for my once in a lifetime crisis collection.
Why only once? The best things always have a sequel.
Then people born after 70s must be in a cinematic universe
Wtf Happened in 1971
Cool but I don’t need a goldbug conspiracy theorists’ website for that.
I am so confused, what is that website even trying to say!? Is it just a collection of graphs that seem to have some important turning point around 1971? Why choose that year in particular, you could do it for any other year? This seems like a lamer non-automated version of https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
In 1971, USA dropped gold standard and it has given rise to all kinds of conspiracy theories.
Ohhh, makes sense, thank you!
what is a glow ball panned emic? never herd of that
They say history is written by the victors. I wonder who wrote this.
Inb4 ‘Probably Victor’
Didn’t know a virus could write
idk, according to Plague Inc. rules it lost
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My great-grandma survived the Spanish flu as a teenager. But the high fever during the illness fucked her up so bad, she died of heart failure in her forties.
Yeah being disabled sucks. Millions of people live like this.
It’s not until it happens to someone you know that you really think about it.
But people learn to live with it.
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Again you learn to live with that.
You should do some reading about being disabled because you views are a little ignorant tbh.
No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn’t somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
Global pandemic is redundant
It has varying definitions, but not quite.
Definitions can range anywhere from “Effects a whole country” to “has spread to several large regions” to “threatens to affect the entire globe” but as a general rule the definitions shy away from saying global because then people will quibble about, like, Greenland not being effected because those bastards shut down the ports again.
So you could, for example, have a pandemic that spread through Europe and Asia but the swift and decisive actions of competent executives prevented the spread to the Americas.
