The Great American Spirit -- February 21, 2021

Hardest hit city in Texas? Houston.

Earlier in the week, before we had power back on, I saw that this most recent unfavorable event would be forgotten in two weeks and everything would be back to "Covid-19 normal" in two months (or did I say one month? I forget). 

From The WSJ today which means the story was written one to two days ago. 

When I say this will be forgotten two weeks from now, I'm not talking about the horrendous challenges faced by those directly hit. Those folks will be affected for months; some will have faced unimaginable tragedies (including deaths) but the media will have moved on to something else two weeks from now. 

To put this in perspective, the Japanese have still not "contained" Fukishima from 2011, ten years ago, and that directly affected a lot fewer people. It should be noted that humans built nuclear reactors in the most volcanically-active nation and did not protect at least one nuclear reactor from tsunamis, a well-known phenomenon in that region of the world.  And, of course, the irony, the only nation to have been hit by two nuclear events during wartime