[conspire] "immunity" (COVID-19, ...) Re: Numbers racket

[Tony Godshall]

Southern Italy has whole towns abandoned, trees growing through what we
once roofs, rock walls falling down.  Back when they were built, being at
the top of a mountain where you could see your fields below was the thing
to do.  In the modern era, a village survives by being close to a freeway
or a coastline.


On Tue, May 5, 2020, 15:31 Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:

> > On May 5, 2020, at 15:11, Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:
> >
> > The accounts from the Mayflower settlers back to Europe told of a
> wonderland where the wilderness grows like orderly food-gardens.  These
> tales spread and grew in scope to the point where people wrote that pigs
> run around with forks already in their backs so you can take a bite at your
> leisure.
> >
> > But really, it was just a bunch of people not seeing the ruins of urban
> farm communities for what they once were.
>
> In fairness to them, having been to a metric ton of grown over places that
> were once yards and/or gardens in various parts of the world: if there’s
> any serious amount of water and there are pioneer (e.g., birch) trees that
> can seed, it can stop looking like farmland from the road in 20-40 years.
>
> I don’t have the energy to dig out a pic from Montserrat with a tree
> growing out of the second story of a house (not the first!), but that was
> one of the more bizarre things that stuck in my memory from my travels.
> That despite the fact that the environment was acidic enough to put holes
> in corrugated steel roofs.
>
> Deirdre
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