The main thing the pandemic reveals is how deeply disgraceful our society is. Yes, the US is a failed state, and a particularly absurd one given its vast wealth, but it has failed in a debased and degraded way so aburd that it’d be funny if it didn’t harm and kill so many people.

It’s like watching a clown car go off a cliff while playing the soundtrack to Cats. It’s a fucking ludicrous tragedy that was utterly preventable and yet no one had enough will and foresight to lift a single finger to put a halt to it — with of course centrists screaming that anything else was impossible as they frantically snip the brake lines, put a brick on the accelerator pedal and remove all the guardrails.