I can’t remember who the author was anymore but read a book about a leper island down around Louisiana. I think around the early 1900’s. Once sent there, you pretty much died there.
Is America on a course toward a self fulfilling prophesy of an apocalypse? Many of those who warn of such a catastrophe seem eager to demonstrate their personal superiority and fire power in that event. A mass hysteria of Charles Manson mindset possibly. There are apparently a great many lemmings with delusions of grandeur.