“Nothing can be done”, says country that didn’t do anything.
This is the 100% normalization moment, IMO. If there is a much worse new Covid variant in the future, both the GOP and the DNC will just ignore it. It took ~2 years.
agreed. also, it will be interesting if we face something totally different. like another ebola outbreak. will all pandemics now simply be treated with indifference?
There will probably be an initial wave of panic/caution from the ruling class, until they see what it means for them personally. But after two years of Covid, all of them probably know that they can go fully remote and just hire a couple of people to do their work for them.
Normalization until inflation going up because of shortage since a bunch of front line worker is in hospital right now instead of on the line working.
I don’t think that is why inflation happened. IMO most of inflation is just large corporations getting even larger during the pandemic and being able to raise prices. Most corporations have been reporting record profits, way above expectations.
https://twitter.com/as_a_worker/status/1448500582168338432
Inflation is absolutely being driven by real cost increases in shipping, directly as a consequence of international firms stiffing their workers and cutting their service to the bone, removing any slack in the system.
We are living through a heightening of the contradictions as the profit motive directly buts up against the physical capacity of the human body.
