Fortunately, while the current situation is deadly serious for those who have lost loved ones and even worse for those that are without a job or even the possibility of a job for some time to come, like I saw back in 2011 when I was looking. Crowds in the unemployment office with few jobs available… Mostly black or brown faces in the crowds.

Looking back in history, the only time that the world was really in peril was during World War II. I will discount the Cold War because it was "unthinkable," and still is. Although some small nuclear power may try a terrorist move, we will survive it like we did 9/11, or in Obama's terms, "absorb it." We are big enough for that. We are absorbing COVID-19, quite well, whether we know it or not.

Aside from the small possibilities of a meteor strike, super volcano, tsunami, really deadly virus like the great plagues of the dark ages or AI, the only real threats we face are global warming and societal meltdown. While there is evidence that world society is threatened by meltdown, it is not really happening in spite of great stress being placed on the lowest of the low. Good deeds are far outpacing bad deeds in the current, temporary adjustment of society.

Ron

Lets hope "the good thing happens". It has been bad enough. I can't stand the sight and sound of him, especially now where he is trying to compromise the election itself. Talk about an attack of democracy. He needs to be put in his place, far down in the depths of hell, a state he has created for so many others. His time will surely come. Talk about a loser. He gives the name new life.

yes it could happen