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Assuming no reinfections, we just passed one in ten people having tested positive for COVID :amerikkka-clap:
The people who contribute unnecessarily to the spread of the disease have no responsibility for when the disease spreads.
The folks getting hit the heaviest by the disease aren't suburban boomers throwing fits at Macy's. They're service sector and agg workers who are forced into crowded venues in order to make a living, denied paid sick leave, and who lack access/affordability of quality PPE. The initial big COVID blow-ups were meat-packing plants, particularly in rural corners of the country heavily reliant on migrant labor.
Careful with this rhetoric or you're going to end up sounding like Lou Dobbs, blaming the victims of our abysmal health and trade policies for another debilitating symptom of capitalism in decay.
I’m not blaming the service workers, I’m blaming the anti-maskers that shop at the venues. They give it to a worker and that sparks a super-spreader event that spreads to hundreds of working class people.
Again, the primary vector for disease spread has not been suburban retail shopper. They make for excellent scapegoats, and quite a few of them deserve to get clocked for acting like twats, but these are not driving disease spread.
If you get covid-19 because someone couldn’t wear a mask, that’s not your fault.
If you can't access PPE because your local leadership is more concerned with profit margins than proliferation of protective gear, the problem is not one of individual choice but of systemic failure to distribute masks. The handful of Karens making a spectacle of themselves on YouTube have no influence over whether this gear is produced and distributed in a timely manner.
The only people I blame are anti-maskers.
Blaming "anti-maskers" makes about as much sense as blaming "anti-fa". You're lashing out at a meme, which plays neatly into the "personal responsibility" narrative that spawned this crisis.
The folks getting hit the heaviest by the disease aren't suburban boomers throwing fits at Macy's. They're service sector and agg workers who are forced into crowded venues in order to make a living, denied paid sick leave, and who lack access/affordability of quality PPE. The initial big COVID blow-ups were meat-packing plants, particularly in rural corners of the country heavily reliant on migrant labor.
Careful with this rhetoric or you're going to end up sounding like Lou Dobbs, blaming the victims of our abysmal health and trade policies for another debilitating symptom of capitalism in decay.
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Again, the primary vector for disease spread has not been suburban retail shopper. They make for excellent scapegoats, and quite a few of them deserve to get clocked for acting like twats, but these are not driving disease spread.
If you can't access PPE because your local leadership is more concerned with profit margins than proliferation of protective gear, the problem is not one of individual choice but of systemic failure to distribute masks. The handful of Karens making a spectacle of themselves on YouTube have no influence over whether this gear is produced and distributed in a timely manner.
Blaming "anti-maskers" makes about as much sense as blaming "anti-fa". You're lashing out at a meme, which plays neatly into the "personal responsibility" narrative that spawned this crisis.
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