My 24-hour twitter break is now going to be a 48-hour twitter break. I checked in on twitter for just a few minutes and all I saw were a bunch of histrionic tweets that, at best, could described as being "catastrophe porn." This is a time of great anxiety and people need to be careful and they need to take care of themselves and pay attention to the news and everything else but, at the same time, I don't see what's to be gained from people having a panic attack online.

I swear, the last four years has just been a steady process of me losing respect for people online. I lost a lot of respect for a lot of people after I saw how they reacted to the 2016 election. I lost even more respect for some of them in 2018 and during the impeachment process. And now, in 2020, the Wuhvan Virus is here to show me who really is not worth listening to in a crisis.