thread. The West is out of shape. Only 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy. covid19 will be cruel to them. Their institutions are also unfit. The CDC cannot tie its own shoes without breaking a sweat. As for its one job, controlling disease, forget it./1

And the people, the demos: That too is unfit. In the US a great part of the patriotic right has exchanged its chance to lead during the pandemic for self-indulgent hollow rants about their liberties./2

They've chosen to be that one asshole with his curtains open and his lights on in the middle of an air-raid blackout, because THE CONSTITUTION GOSHDARNIT. liberty doesn't mean you have no civic or social obligations. it binds you to a higher standard. /3

If you talk like this you make your whole movement irrelevant, esp. when it turns out the liberty you were demanding was the liberty to feed your beer gut. Oh and the economy? The virus is contracting global demand. You won't save it by not quarantining./4

The only question is whether we are going to be poorer with vast mortality, or poorer with merely considerable mortality. The mental obesity of AmNat twitter is manifest not only in the hollow liberty posting, but in impossible conspiracy theories about the virus. /5

These all have two things in common: They posit that Sars2 is somehow a fake threat, and that it is a globalist power grab. Only minds that can't even run a two-minute lap at the track would peddle this scientifically and politically illiterate garbage. /6

Neoliberal globalists a) ignored this pandemic to keep you shopping, b) prevented border controls which could have stopped it early, and c) indulged in racism mongering right through the last weeks of February. /7

Now globalist elites have the virus burning through their backyard. The wealthiest places - like NYC - were hit first. They also realise they are facing a crisis of their own legitimacy. They are weak and desperate to stop this, and they also want to escape blame. /8

who is really manipulating the mind of the obese, confused, unfit right? maybe ask yourself why you're busy running around in circles posting about Event 201, rather than asking why Vox and the NYT were telling you not to worry about C19 in January. /9

public health measures have been so successful, we forgot that plagues have always been with us. now we are being reminded. the germs are striking back, and we have to remember what are forefathers knew: it's deadly serious, it threatens all of us, and we have to win./10

and as we fight this war against a deadly pathogen, we have to make it clear to everyone: the neoliberal globalists did this. their open borders spread this everywhere. their empty capitalist ideology made it impossible to protect ourselves early, when it could've mattered. /11

their overseas factories are why our doctors don't have enough personal protective equipment to keep them in the fight. we want to beat Sars2, but we also need these assholes out of power. because they want to get right back to globalism when this is over. /12 end thread.