I'm watching normies run around panicking like chickens with their heads cut off. This pandemic really brings to the surface the worst of human nature.
They're irrationally hoarding enough toilet paper and kitchen rolls to last their family a decade.
They're stockpiling masks and other PPE so that doctors and nurses face a serious risk of becoming patients.
They're lying about their symptoms so that they can get a hospital bed at the expense of vulnerable patients who actually need inpatient care.
They believe in and spread all sorts of ridiculous conspiratorial nonsense. "Oh, the outbreak is fake. Oh, the virus is a bioweapon. The ricecels made it. Or the U.S. military. Or the Illuminati. Who needs experts anyway? Why should I trust someone with a Harvard PhD when I can just use Google?"
They're avoiding or even outright harassing every Asian person they see, because they're too fucking stupid to tell the difference between the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Thais, et cetera.
Why is this funny, you ask? It's because normies are such sanctimonious and self-congratulatory blowhards. They pat themselves on the back for performing the smallest acts of kindness. They think they made better life choices than all other wageslaving normies even though they're just two paychecks away from homelessness. When the shit hits the fan they behave like fucking animals. I mean, there is no reason for anyone to ever start a brawl in a supermarket, but hey, I suppose you really needed that last pack of spaghetti.
What's even funnier than seeing normies panic is that all of this was somewhat predictable. This isn't the first coronavirus outbreak; we had SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012, 2015, and 2018. Last year, a think tank in D.C. (CSIS) ran a role-playing simulation involving a coronavirus pandemic. Policymakers should've seen this coming. Corporate leaders should've seen this coming. I mean, look at the U.S. airline industry. Over the last few years they spent all of their cash on stock buybacks instead of creating a rainy day fund, and now they're begging Congress for a $50 billion bailout.
Well, I say that they deserve to go bankrupt.
But the real kicker is the fact that after this outbreak is over, life will return to normal. Normies will continue to consume fake news and vote for unqualified demagogues. It won't occur to these idiots that governance is a realm for serious people; that issues like public health, counterterrorism, and climate change are best handled by boring people with fancy degrees. Researchers won't get the funding they need to better manage shit like this, because normies demand more NEETbux and lower taxes at the same time. For the same reason, some public schools will remain underfunded, creating an underclass of intellectually stunted morons with no scientific literacy or critical thinking skills.
So this will happen again, probably within the next few decades. The next pandemic could very well be caused by another coronavirus, or a new strain of drug-resistant bacteria. And the cycle will repeat itself, again and again. People will panic, and after each successive crisis, they won't learn a single thing.
