“Nothing can be done”, says country that didn’t do anything.
I was in a government building in Idaho a few months ago to pay a parking fine when an email went out to the staff that the mask mandate was lifted for government employees. In the most surreal moment of my life, people around me began tearing off their masks in celebration and spreading the news across the building that the pandemic was over.
The following week Idaho was reported to have the highest COVID transmission rate in the entire world.
Do you work as a Chud-chronicler or something? Like why would you go to either of those places?
:seen-this-one: hey it’s summer of 2021 when the CDC said if you’re vaccinated you can stop masking which lead to the delta variant surge!
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.
We’re going to be hearing the phrase “We have to learn to live with COVID” a whole lot more now.
Living with covid means masking in public indoor areas, but that’s too much of a sacrifice. What they mean is “cull the herd”.
I remember hearing how in the medieval ages, Arabs rightfully considered European a bunch of unhygienic barbarians. Well I’m glad to see I get to re-live a bit of that history.
Proud to be an American, where at least I know that people would rather a million people die (including maybe themselves) than give up their treats at all. This shit terrifies me. For the rest of my life, whenever I interact with anyone the question of ‘are you one of the psychotic braying hogs that fought to risk as many people’s lives as possible?’ will be going through my brain. Maybe I would have had this reaction after Iraq,but I was too young to be really paying attention when it kicked off.
I feel like I’m in a cult because my mind always defaults to “fascist/homophonic/etc.” when I see anyone new due to shit that I’ve seen so many people say and support
Profiling for sunburned Anglo guys in drab colored clothes with tiny beards, strong arms and fat guts.
Anglos in general do not have the benefit of the doubt at all, even myself 👁
