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9/11 brought billions of money to the rich and was a good excuse to arm the government to better oppress the working class.
Covid was the same.
I dont see your problem. /s
What I'm trying to say is all of this is just a way to maximize power at the top, always has been.
Please join unions and vote left.
except most unions aren't doing shit for covid workplace safety. that doesn't mean unions are bad, just ignorant
Unions would do that if more people who cared about it joined unions and pushed for it. Unions only work if you're actively doing stuff in them. It's democracy, it only works so long as you partake.
OK, let's say I'm disabled and I wanna partake in said democracy. I show up to the union meeting and everyone is unmasked, there's no air filtration or ventilation. am I just supposed to put myself at risk of infection until the union members get their shit together? that might take months to years during which I can't afford to be repeatedly reinfected.
this is not hypothetical, I've been part of multiple leftist spaces where my only options are to leave or to put myself at risk of harassment when I hand everyone N95s because I'm being "pushy".
Mm. You're describing someone very dear to me, because of whom I wear an n95 mask every day.
People you describe fight an uphill battle, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. They can ask for accommodations, but a lot of people won't meet them. Meetings can be held digitally, of course, and one can advocate for oneself digitally as well. In time they can hope to win allies, and with them also get advocates that are willing to help amplify their voice.
I'm sorry, but I don't have any good solutions. The world is neither kind or fair, the best we can hope for is to build communities with people that empathise and see us.
I wish you the very best.
I'm glad you understand, thanks for the reply.
I'm also glad you reached the point I wanted to make, that people like me become extremely cynical when unions are brought up as a solution because even with digital access we're still seen as second class members. they're not gonna invest as many resources in the digital meetings because there's no incentive to
I agree. Regular unions arent my personal favorite either.
But that is why you can choose where to go and which union to join.
Try and join a base democratic union and watch your decisions be the only things that are done.
Our problem isnt that unions dont do our bidding. It is that we dont support those that do and that is by design. We're taught from a young age to not express our thoughts and wishes, to stay calm in the face of injustice. Of course people are angry and desperate.
I suggest you read about subversive groups and what is happening around the world in terms of turning these things around.
Owner class don't care if you, some peasant, dies. It's their control getting threatened that gets them motivated.
And besides, the air filters at your kids’ private academy are better than the hospitals the poors use, never mind the public schools!
911 = never forget Covid = die for the economy Trump 2nd Term = who cares about the economy anyway?
I think I have whiplash at this piont.
the fact that a post like this still has people in the comments acting like COVID is in the past and 1k ppl in the US alone aren't dying of it every week. COVID literally hasn't gone anywhere all of you have just closed your eyes to the consequences of your actions.
I'm reading posts as yours thankful to still find some people with common sense. I lost friends to covid while others kept ranting about nonsensical conspiracy theories and proudly rebelling. One of the dumbest shit I've heard people say is "Why should I wear a mask for covid if I don't wear one for flu?". Well, if you actually gave a damn about anyone's wellbeing you'd wear a mask for BOTH.
19k people die in us yearly just because they use a gas cooker.
Dont look up how many die per year from regular flu. Covid is over and its a small disease like any other now.
It's like that with everything. If a catastrophe can be capitalized, it will. 911 was extremely profitable for the MIC, imperialism, etc. Covid was only profitable to big pharma. The state values global violence far more than the health of any population.
Except if other capital interests stand in the way of a new market.
Clean energy is extremely lucrative, but dirty energy still has money.
Plenty of other sectors profited also from covid, an excuse to make everything more expensive and never cheaper when it ends.
Same with that ship that blocked the Suez Canal for a short time.
a virus “hurt” and scared capitalists far more than some planes did; war is profit, pandemic is not.
Traumatic event > emotion > propagandized media response > wealth being funneled towards capitalists
Y'all need the get on the sigma grindset, when tragedy strikes, don't get sad, don't emotionally process, just figure out how you can use it to manipulate people and make money
/s
pro tip: manufacture both tragedy and consent for the war in response! now we’re cookin’ with gas!
There's a vocal subset of people here who like to act as if Covid is still the same threat it was five years ago. The pandemic is over, because Covid is endemic now. It just always is there. Like the common flu was before Covid. And the Covid variants these days are very much on a similar level to the flu. Trying to build some conspiratorial narrative out of that makes you sound insane.
Upvoting you because I agree that some voices need to process the shift to endemic.
But I also agree with the tweet that low cost systematic changes should still be underway to lower overall viral burden, or soften the blow of the next pandemic.
I don’t know if HEPA filters in public institutions is actually effective, so I suppose the argument hinges on that; is there actually low hanging fruit like that?
Oh, I agree with that too! That should just be a normal thing, enabling kids to still learn together with their peers. I was so damn glad when the restrictions were lifted, because I saw the awful effect social segregation was having on my kids. For offices, remote work should be a right for any job where it's possible and not something out feudal lords have to grant.
Where do you get the information that it's endemic when the WHO are saying it's still a pandemic?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino[…].
So there is a cumulative effect that can be occurring with each infection.
Early in the pandemic, we actually published a paper where we showed that, even in animal models — when we infected mice with a very, very mild case of SARS-CoV-2 infection — which only caused lung inflammation, we still saw these inflammatory chemicals called chemokines emerging from the infected lungs and starting to attack central nervous system structures such as the spinal cord and the brain.
[…]You know, this is a virus that, once it enters the body, is very capable of entering the bloodstream, creating immune responses that travel all over the body.
It disrupts what we call "interferon signalling," which is part of the immune system that helps you to fight off infections or latent infections, such as Epstein Barr virus.
Typically our immune system can keep these things suppressed, but when SARS-CoV-2 enters the picture, it starts to cause altered interferon signalling. It causes immune damage and dysregulation.
And suddenly, not only does your body have trouble clearing the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself, but it also starts to have trouble keeping some of these other viruses that have been latent from reactivating and causing problems.
In addition to SARS-CoV-2's ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.
And so between those two features, the ability to dysregulate the immune system and the ability to cause systemic damage throughout the bloodstream, you have a very dangerous novel virus on your hands.
Not being the same threat is largely due to vaccines which are being restricted, and it being a different threat doesn't mean it's no threat.
Also, it is still a pandemic, only the emergency phase ended.
And the Covid variants these days are very much on a similar level to the flu.
They're not. Many of the variants that exist now last for weeks. I don't know of any flu symptoms that don't go way basically on their own within a week or so.
The 9/11 attacks were a reason to send troops to the middle east. COVID was not.
~~reason~~ excuse to send troops to the Middle East.
Even worse, the attackers were from the Middle East, but the US sent troops into Asia, to Afghanistan.
The 9/11 attacks were a reason to send troops to the middle east.
And roll back personal freedoms, which contrasts greatly with the hub-bub so many people made about their "personal freedom" to cough all over people without consequence.
Smooshing events together is normal when you look back at the past, but those of us who witnessed 9/11 as adults know that "Never forget" came later. The immediate response was that if you stay home and hide, the "terrists" win. The big message was, "Act normal, keep shopping!" Same as with COVID. "Don't let this affect your spending habits" is always the oligarchy's reassuring response to bad news. Don't let this little bump in the road hurt profits. They pulled out the "never forget" card later when they decided to turn a terrorist act by a fringe group into an excuse for more military spending.
It's never about protecting you. It's about controlling you.
The difference between security measures and medical measures: the lack of the latter kills peasants, the presence of the former suppresses them. Win-win, if you a wealthy ghoul who thinks the poors are filthy takers.
I see the point but I do want to remind the infrequent fliers that you can bring nail clippers on planes now, and you've been able to for a long time.
Family occasionally visits and asks if they can borrow clippers when they arrive and im like "sure, but you can just bring your own." Like what, are you going to hijack a plane with toe nail clippers!?
If someone can hijack a plane with nail clippers, they can do it without the nail clippers.
Do they still yell at you to take your shoes off, unless you have taken your shoes off in which case they yell at you because you took your shoes off, because today on this particular flight right now, they don't want you to take your shoes off. Tomorrow who knows.
I wouldn't mind so much but they're also obnoxious.
3k people died in 9/11 in the USA. 1 million people died of covid in the USA. But what people are outraged about is civil liberties. ("The other COVID reckoning" by Scott Alexander.)