I only recently realized how appropriate this Paul McCartney song is about today's times

[cojoel]

I wasn't such a fan of it when it came out all those years ago, but at this point with the anti-masker anti-vaxer types, what else can one do? Perhaps we will need to make a plan to repopulate the red states in the future...

[abqtommy]

1. Back in the day the U.S. and state governments did a lot to encourage settlement of

the less-populated areas of the country. There was the Oklahoma Land Rush and
The Homesteading Act and some version of those might still work. We are indeed living in
interesting times.