Meanwhile at the Church of the Perpetually Offended

Under the FT Alphaville story "Coronavirus is good for bitcoin" we find these comments:

Occupy till I die
slow news day?

Dr P
In reply to Occupy till I die.
gotta have something to talk about until the TSLA results

Anonimouse

Only the hottest takes on what could possibly be a deadly pandemic...is this what we pay a subscription for? What a joke.

Izabella Kaminska

This is not a hot take on a deadly pandemic. This is part of our extended hot take on bitcoin. 

Izabella Kaminska

P.S you do realise this is a critique? XXXX is good for bitcoin is a meme. 

Anonimouse in particular but the other two as well should heed the words of Abraham Lincoln (attributed):

"Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt"

I can't begin to imagine what they would think of our (purloined) unofficial tagline, iterated  a few hundred times:

...As amateur scribblers we are adherents of the WaPo's Joel Aschenbach's dictum:

...When in doubt, go with the most hysterical headline.
(Rule one of blogging is that the End Of The World will be good for page views.)
Joel Achenbach, Washington Post
-World War Five

posted while playing R.E.M.

And dancing the Apocalypto (or a nice Danse Macabre)

The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from 

the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel

Take that Mr. A. Mouse