Score one for the survivalists

For the past three months, the liberal educated elite has been heaping scorn on the small but loud minority of disgruntled conservatives who have been stockpiling cans, throwing away tea, and getting ready to barricade themselves in their homes, or the nearest convenient cave, if they've been foreclosed on.

Then, what do you know, a pandemic strikes, and these same elites are now asking us if we're prepared for the forced closure of schools, shops, and workplaces.

It's a shame this plague is related to swine, since irony tastes best with bacon.