These people that Watkins is talking about — and there are so many of them — creep me out.

We’ve been on lockdown for so long we’ve entered a strange place where people will shame others for not wanting to be in the house anymore, let alone not accomplishing enough during the pandemic. They’re the most responsible, they cook the most French meals, practice yoga six times a day, which causes them to lose 38 pounds (and yet they’re also the most spiritual), and they’re double-masking even when they’re all alone, because nobody is handling this stay-at-home pandemic life better than they are. But this is not normal life. And I’m OK with acknowledging that.

They really will be the first ones lining up to go into the pods, eating bugs and such. It’ll affirm them somehow.

i was like 19 and believe me, we all fucking knew https://t.co/EUcKjhl7RV

— Bo Bolander (@BBolander) March 21, 2021

The “Who could have KNOWNNNNN?” defense is always trotted out in cases where almost everyone with a brain knew a thing, but the plutes and pols either wish to avoid culpability or really were that stupid. It happened with the Iraq War, the Great Recession and its causes, and it’s happening again with the pandemic.

And people fall for it. Somehow.