the @WHO: no human-to-human transmission of the virus
the @WHO: this isn't a pandemic
the @WHO: masks won't protect you
the @WHO (for some reason): fuck taiwan btwYouTube: disagreeing with the @WHO is now illegal
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) April 21, 2020
Excellent. Defund them, then drone strike them. It’ll save lives.
Authoritarian capitalist Vietnam hacking authoritarian capitalist China to get information on a new virus that may or may not have accidentally escaped from a lab is unbelievably cyberpunk. https://t.co/KqehIihkYx
— Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart) April 23, 2020
Huh. What a world.
Why did so many New Yorkers with COVID-19 wait until it was too late to call an ambulance?
Are you fucking serious with this shit? Think about how terrible our medical system is and how few people can afford to pay even if they have insurance — which many do not.
And then you have your fucking answer. These are our trust-fund journalists, people. Know-nothing assclowns.
— Angie Schmitt 🚶♀️🚴♀️ 🚌 (@schmangee) April 23, 2020
Wrong. MBA types are going to force everyone back into the office. I promise it’s going to happen.
kind of think it is a bit loopy for the media to get on its high horse when it spent two months saying no one should worry about Covid-19 and that if you did it was because you were racist
— Liz Franczak (@liz_franczak) April 14, 2020
Hey, whatever wins the wokeness wars, yeah? That’s the most important priority.
It is just exhausting to watch nondisabled people suddenly realizing that single-use plastic is often the only sterile, hygienic option.
Now that there’s a pandemic and *everyone’s* immune system is at risk, suddenly no one’s arguing that it’s *perfectly easy* to wash and reuse. https://t.co/7KGZ4s5ndw
— Mlle Defarge (@hearing_girl) April 21, 2020
Isn’t that something, though? Most people are literally incapable of taking others’ experience into account. How have humans survived so long? Just luck.
We were slowly heading this way anyway. https://t.co/RbYsU2fEgB
— James Marsh (@JamesMarsh79) April 22, 2020
Disagree. There will be an absolutely enormous pushback against remote work by MBAs and executives in about a year, and they’ll win — after all, they have the power and workers don’t.
Sure, remote work will increase a little. But it won’t become the norm because MBAs/Execs despise the loss of power. They won’t tolerate it for long.
Thank you @neonflag for this explanation of why @GovKemp opened Georgia. pic.twitter.com/XHMEsUHjXp
— Aisha Saeed (@aishacs) April 21, 2020
Good explanation. Neo-feudalism project proceeding nicely.
March 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens. I had just turned 5 (45 now). https://t.co/4BgMNYYnNZ
— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) April 22, 2020
Same for me! I was 3, just about to turn 4. I’m 43 now. I didn’t really understand what a mountain was, having never seen one, nor how it could explode — but I do remember the idea that the earth or part of it could just go kablooey concerning me greatly.
That’s not my earliest memory, but it’s the first major news event that I recall knowing anything about.
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IS A POLICY CHOICE
In today’s @markets newsletter, I wanted to remind people that none of the economic devastation we’re seeing was inevitable. It’s a political choice that it’s so awful.https://t.co/e5TYtjIuOw pic.twitter.com/R8msLzcos2
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) April 22, 2020
The plutes/conservatives saw their chance and they took it. The Democrats, had they any spine, could’ve resisted (just as in 2008/9) and did not.
Of course just like last time you’ll have morons coming out of the woodwork screeching, “No one could’ve known!” and that it was “inevitable,” but that’s just cover for them making use of the pillaging and looting opportunity they were waiting for.
What’s happening now is a policy choice. Never been anything but. Anyone who tells you any different is lying to you or is a useful idiot.