This is sobering news from N Italy. Anaesthetists and life-support specialists writing to authorities about 'leaving the places for those who have the greater possibility of surviving.' #coronavirus https://t.co/zvYSgYSfMa

— Miriam O'Callaghan (@mir_ocall) March 7, 2020

Ah, to be back in the days when smug liberal fucksticks were admonishing us for worrying about Covid-19 instead of the flu.

Free universal coronavirus testing should have been a no-brainer.

Making people pay for testing in the middle of a pandemic = a civilizational death wish. https://t.co/C7YyeNTnjA

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 8, 2020

Every once in a while, even an economist says something sensible.

Medicare For All now.

A week ago some guy was mouthing off that poor children should starve if they can't pay for a school lunch, and I told him he should get punched in the mouth. Not that I'd do it, just that it should happen. I got insta-banned for 7 days. So, FYI: that's the line, apparently.

— Ken Lowery (@kenlowery) March 8, 2020

Twitter is completely supportive of harming and killing kids (and adults) as long as it’s capitalism doing it. Otherwise, any “violence” is not okay.

I just read an op-ed in the NY Times entitled, "I Am Burning With Fury and Grief Over Elizabeth Warren. And I Am Not Alone" by a 39-year-old white woman (am I allowed to mention her identity?) who admitted that she has literal dreams about Warren. Nonstop babbling psycho-drama

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) March 7, 2020

I read that too. I was cringing the whole time. I don’t mean cringing in my mind. I mean, cringing with my whole face. It was like reading a middle-schooler’s diary. It’s amazing what can get published today by “feminists.”

Why they are so intent on self-infantilization I have no idea but it’s not a very good strategy.

This is a Yale professor who wrote a book on fascism. We truly are ruled by idiots. https://t.co/AQ3bV7lOoH

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 7, 2020

She betrayed her supporters and her principles and hired incompetent Hillary Clinton campaign staffers.

Perhaps any one of those would not have been enough to doom her, but all those together were fatal to her campaign. Misogyny, while not irrelevant, was a distant fourth or fifth contributing to her failed bid.

The U.S. is always included in lists of “developed nations,” but it’s not obvious to me that we should be. Our inability to manage COVID-19 in any way, for lack of national healthcare or paid sick leave, makes clear that we’re simply not in the same class as those nations.

— Waldo Jaquith (@waldojaquith) March 8, 2020

Agreed. Having been to many countries, the US is not a developed nation. It does not meet any standards that would qualify it as such. Our systems are fragile and absurd and we do not care for our citizens; we are content to let many of them expire from deaths of opioids and despair, if they are not run down by SUVs in the street first.

Our health care system is a literal criminal enterprise, our federal government cannot govern (and no, that did not start with Trump), and the Boomers are perfectly content to let their children die of climate change and its follow-on effects.

The only area on which we meet any development metric is that we are the very best at predatory capitalism.