I’ve found the easiest way to convince fellow white people to take COVID-19 seriously is to tell them about what’s happening in Italy. Most white people identify with Italians. Stuff happening in Asia might as well be happening on a different planet as far as they’re concerned.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) March 15, 2020

I wish that weren’t true but it is. That so many of the Boomers — a group among the most likely to die — disbelieve that Covid-19 is real and dangerous just says so much about our times. None of it, of course, good.

Truly I am not sure what to make of it all. It seems that people are fantastically more moronic than I thought, and I previously believed that most people were about on the level of monkeys flinging poo at one another.