I did not get everything right about the path of the pandemic, but goddamn did I ever call the general course we’d take in the US.

Here’s what I said on February 29, 2020:

“I suspect Covid-19 will likely reveal America’s true status as the world’s richest Third World nation as we’ll be completely unable to deal with the disease and its consequences. The reasons I assert this is that we have:

• • A horrifically bad health care system that is about profit, not care. Many people simply will not visit a doctor no matter what because they know they cannot afford it.

• • Work cultures and workplace tyranny that forces sick people to work, which will cause exponential transmission.

• • Neglected agencies staffed by the fearful and the incompetent who will not be given the proper resources and haven’t had good leadership for years.

• Inability to impose adequate containment measures because concern with individual rights (metastasizing libertarianism) makes proper quarantine and isolation impossible.”

I hate being right. But it was honestly not that hard to call this one.

i wish I had some friendly holothurians https://t.co/oZM3uUc2Fz

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 10, 2021

I did not know about friendly holothurians, but now I need some as well.

People do not understand crash physics at all. You want the front of the vehicle to crumple in a serious crash! Otherwise you body will absorb the impact

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) August 9, 2021

Most people are brainless, so it’s ok that the crumple zone is their head. It’s fine.

How long before all vendors take screenshots of your screen every five seconds, do some bullshit “neural hashing” of the output, and examine it for any sign of thoughtcrime, etc.?

I give it a decade, probably less. Of course all for your own good, as the libs like to say.