Even the passengers on the Titanic knew better than today’s COVIDiot overlords.

Although the catastrophic crash of the paradoxically named RMS Titanic has come to mark the end of the Gilded Age, the sinking of the ship forced its passengers to abandon the rank classism of the fin de siecle and go back to the basics. While the Titanic spent its four days en route to New York City stratified into the stark class system of the era’s ostentatious ocean liners, crisis forced the very best of Edwardian ethics to override whatever social mores had dominated the days before.