Tekeristan wrote:The Hobbesian Metaphysician wrote:If a pandemic is severe enough the secession movements may make a full restoration of the U.S impossible.
Well, doesn't mean that they wouldn't be 'liberated' by the overwhelming strength of the U.S army, or convinced to join the country of old. So things would prove interesting.
The thing about pandemics is the probability of desertion by people to go back home, and be with their families or die with them (if they are already dead).