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Last time I went to WalMart, only saw 3 people wearing masks. All of them black.

rd6B says

Last time I went to WalMart, only saw 3 people wearing masks. All of them black.

Drama Queen Disability and Workman's Comp Prepping. Same thing happened at our post office during the swine flu scare, gloves 'n masks and posturing. The Filipinos, Chinese and white people just kept on working, no masks or gloves.

Lombardy, at the epicenter of the epidemic, said about 100 soldiers would soon be deployed to help local police enforce the lockdown, and called on the government to impose new measures to keep Italians at home.

OK, from now on it's "corona food" and "coronatown"!

The luxuries and fixations of the culture wars may finally be over. Nobody will mourn its passing, because nobody conclusively won it, or ever could. In Samuel P. Huntington’s magisterial Who Are We? (2004) he noted that the absence of an external ‘other’ to rally against usually undermines the unity of a society. Divisions and grievances multiply. Cultural battles replace political process. Huntington could see a future America with only an Obama-style ‘creed’ as the basis of its polity. Following such a trajectory this America evolves into a deglutinated confederation of ethnic, cultural and political tribes with nothing in common save geography. Like the Ottoman Empire, or Austro-Hungarian Empires before it, the USA dissolves in an acid bath of competing identities.

But then again, maybe not. Maybe, as the learnèd philosopher Matthew McConaughey posits, COVID-19 is the external ‘other’, the enemy, that can bring America back together again.

Nah... I thought 911 was bringing us together but look what happened a few short years later.

In case you wonder why we are where we are... #WuhanCoronaVirus pic.twitter.com/o5NedNv3jy

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 21, 2020