Oh you very much can, what you can’t do is stop ideas from mutating.

Ideas VERY rarely if ever actually survive the original source of them. The moment an idea is passed onto the next generation it changes.

You can make an argument that it’s the same idea, but it rarely RARELY is.

Much like a virus, an idea can have similarities to what came before, but each version is unique and has it’s owns strength and weaknesses.

All you can really hope is that the next version isn’t more deadly and immune to the cure.

People easily ignore death if it’s not directly connected to them.

Covid killed a lot but we also have many many times more people. The civil war directly effected a higher percent of the population in terms of death the. Covid did.

Covid was also hidden by modern medicine and society then the civil war was in many ways.

Covid to a lot of people just ment things closed sooner and they had to wear a mask. But society was already very insular and detached from the community around them. So it was only a progression of the norm. Unless you payed attention to the news or were in the healthcare industry. All the death was happening behind closed doors hidden away from society at large.

The civil war was best as I know far more impactful to the people because of the closet connection to their communities around them.

It was far more visible in a visceral way.

I would expect the avg German citizen in 1939 to be historically fucked with no options but bad ones!

The super bowl is broadcast into every store, restaurant and other local with a TV. People watch the super bowl from work in droves because it’s passive and just on regardless.