Coronavirus spreads. But don't panic! (topical thread)

[mordant]

True then.  True now.

I think its true in extreme ways now, that are specific to particular inflection points in history where we let our collective guard down and allow, through corruption and leadership failure, too much un-tethering of lived experience from factual analysis to become enshrined in public life. And I see it as far from confined to the far right, or even just the right.