For information on stopping the spread of COVID-19, and on what to do if you are quarantined, have a look at the World Health Organization site.
I should probably walk back my claims of Jamie Delano's prescience a bit, in that this series is not a really a futurist speculation but a commentary on America at the turn of the millennium. If we read it as a far more metaphorical representation of American society, you can see the problems Delano is drawing attention to, and how they led us to the current state of United States socio-political organization. There's been no mention of who runs the country now, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that it was a celebrity of some sort.
This particular chapter is also a bit of a stroll through U.S. history, or part of it anyway. The 12 issues of this series share a setting - they're all set in the same United States in 2020, and there are apparently connections between the various characters, so maybe I'll have to go back and re-read the second story arc to see how Jack Atlanta's tale links to this first story. Most of today's issue takes place in the quarantine of Ellis Island, where immigrants to the U.S. were held until deemed healthy enough to enter the country, or were sent back where they came from. The island plays an opposite role in 2020, however, with victims of disease, any disease, sent to the island to waste away, out of sight, out of mind.
Well, that got a bit too real. Hopefully our current plague will get under control before something like this becomes necessary.
More to follow.
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