Britain Burned the White House
Where Cruise Ships Are Sent to Die
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/travel/cruise-ships-scrapped.html
Easy to imagine the demolition of high-rises as Covid continues its onslaught against once densely populated, sealed windowed, lofty piles about the size of the largest cruise ships stood on their noses like Titanics heading for the sea bottom, DeCaprio and Kate Winslet flying high on a diving board comparable to the observation platform at Hudson Yards.
Grim as it is to recall the downfall of the World Trade Center Twin Towers 110 stories high, that explosive collapse could be in the offing for uninhabitable disease spreaders whose needed safe and healthy reconfiguration is just not economically feasible. Clean the slate and start over with different zoning, building and health codes which will disperse workers and reduce excessive transportation burdens.
Some of that change of architectural and planning tradition occurred after world wars 1 and 2, or earlier in response to mass disease attacks.
A pessimistic arm chair historian could point to the extermination of natives by arriving explorers in which disease was more effective than armaments, and then the armaments afficiandos were devastated by flu and plague, and then the Japanese incinerated by Los Alamos hot shots.
Sacrificial demolition of the atomic leader Oppenheimer for political vengeance leads readers to the present in which disease is conquering political ideology, high-rise profiteering, cruise ships and airliners and hotels and MAGA-hatted Mickey Mouses.
UK burned the White House. Worthy demolition now.