This Is Not Normal

In which John considers the fragility of everything, and a potential reversal of human progress for the first time in generations.
SOURCES:
Poverty and Health Graphs come from Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-po...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tu...
https://ourworldindata.org/child-mort...

Info on historical rates of child mortality came from Statista
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1...

Percentage of U.S.-born people living to 20 is from the SSA: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4...

The total "pause" on foreign aid: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national...


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