The idea that you have a moral obligation to change your behavior so as not to harm others sounds crazy to many Americans, even outside this particular context.

— Sturgeon’s Law (@Sturgeons_Law) March 12, 2020

Yeah, my partner remarked that she heard someone use the phrase “civic duty” and that even to her ears, it sounded antiquated. It does to mine too, alas. Such talk is considered among the neoliberal technocrats of the left and the right as so, just, déclassé and passé and something a prole would say.

We are so, so fucked as a society, as a polity. As a people.