Biohazard: It seemed pretty obvious to me at the time what was coming. But in the end it was the people who made fun of me who were wiping their asses with their hands. Reality usually wins out over denial, and I enjoyed my last laugh.

"Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago" is gonna get thrown around a lot this cycle and somehow it's gonna be about the price of gas and eggs, and not how we ran out of space in the morgues and had to stack bodies like firewood in vans in central park

Trump didn't just screw up the economy. He let many thousands die bc he couldn't be bothered abt their safety. Never was there any doubt that COVID could be extremely dangerous. On Jan. 1 2020, reading a news report abt the new disease in China, I realized we could face a world pandemic in months.

In early April 2020 I got a hot tip that a corner store about a mile from me had toilet paper - kept behind the counter, you had to know to ask for it. Went there and paid $3/roll and felt like I won the lottery bsky.app/profile/blak...

Four years ago we were clubbing toilet paper hoarders over the head in the streets. I’d say we’re light years better off.

OMG, yes, the great toilet paper drought of 2020. A few weeks before the lockdowns I told my teammates at work to consider getting a bit more groceries because the disease being reported seemed like the real thing. They mocked me for it, and a few weeks later I was smug as hell wiping with real TP.

I told friends they should lay in a couple-three weeks of extra supplies. I had such faith that the CDC would take care of it.

It seemed pretty obvious to me at the time what was coming. But in the end it was the people who made fun of me who were wiping their asses with their hands. Reality usually wins out over denial, and I enjoyed my last laugh.

I just totally had not taken the lesson of Katrina and FEMA. Or, well, to be honest, I thought we had built the agencies back.

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