I remember the aftermath of 9/11. TV shows and movies with the twin towers in them were cancelled, some had the towers edited out. Studios wanted to avoid seen as being in poor taste over a recent tragedy.
Fast forward to 2020/21 and if anything studios are chomping at the bit to capitalise on covid. TV shows like Sweet Tooth, movies like Songbird. Hell, I even saw a board game about surviving a pandemic at my local Target today, haha what fun.
Does anyone else find this kind of fucked up? Here we have a tragedy that has a death toll far, far greater than 9/11 and rising. A tragedy that is still continuing today. Many people, especially in places like America and India, have had family and friends killed by covid or at least know someone who has lost a loved one.
Does anyone else find it disrespectful that people are capitalising on something very real and traumatic? I mean Jesus Christ, at least wait until the bodies are cold.
The Pandemic board game has been around before covid and it's actually a great game
Hell yeah, it's my go to board game when playing with people that don't normally play board games
I want 9/11 bff shirts where me and my best friend each have a twin tower on our shirt
Can't say I really care. I'm not a fan of pearl clutching in general. Capitalism was always gross and has always profited of tragedy.
I don't know man I don't think it's pearl-clutching to be scared and horrified by this disease.
Back when we thought this shit was gonna last like three months a trailer dropped for a horrific film about how the pandemic led to an Orwellian police state
I still wonder what happened to that movie
I mean yeah. Even more disrespectful that countries like the USA hoard vaccines, and then proceed to vaccinate fucking zoo animals against Covid 19 before giving countries in the global south vaccines.
Yeah, animals are getting vaccines now. All while the US refuses to give access to other countries
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1411390974685761540
It's because of the spectacle of 9/11 was greater than covid, at least to me anyway.
It's because 9/11 was an attack on the ruling class of america which was/is the largest and most harmful attack on them to have ever existed. It was turned into a national tragedy.
Covid? Hardly affected the ruling class directly, they're insulated from it and only have a temporary loss of their slaves. Not a national tragedy, an inconvenience to the ruling class at best that they really want to move past not turn into some massive national tragedy that justifies any changes people might want made from it.
Evidence: If a building full of working class people falls down and kills everyone inside they don't give a fuuuuuuuck.
I wrote this post ten months ago and it's still relevant.
Perhaps it will be instructive to take a look at the victims of each tragedy. The victims of 9/11 worked at the World Trade Center, one of the bastions of high finance in New York City. Overwhelming white, wealthy, and male, these victims were financiers, executives, and managers. “The best of the best,” and the idealized version of the “winners” of American meritocracy. They were also men who had their fingers on power in the United States, with connections to Congressmen and government bureaucrats. Because of these victims, we started two wars that killed upwards of a million people.
Those dying of covid-19 could not be more different. In NYC specifically, they are primarily black and Latino and primarily working-class—the folks who could not afford to quarantine and work from home. They are inherently lesser than those who died on 9/11, despite dying in far higher numbers, for they are not those who hold power in the United States. They are not “the best of the best,” they are merely workers. They will receive no nationwide mourning, for nationwide they “do not matter.” Instructive is the idea many were once pushing on social media to create “mask free” days at stores, that way antimaskers could go without making those who wear masks feel unsafe. Little consideration was paid towards the fact that the workers in the store itself would still be exposed to the virus by these antimaskers, for those people “don’t count.” They’re not really people at all. They are nobodies.
Agree completely.
National tragedies only apply to the ruling class. If someone walks into a major stock firm or bank on wall street with a gun and shoots up 50 members of the ruling class the laws in America will change overnight to prevent it happening ever again.
If someone walks into a school and does the same? Meh. Footnote in a long list of similar events.
Not that I'm advocating for gun control. I'm just pointing out that the reaction would be VERY different if such an attack actually affected the ruling class instead of the working class.
Yup, I think you're right. I'm sure the only reason the global North locked down at all very quickly initially is because covid did effect the ruling class. There was real fear and nobody knew basically anything, and the people who initially caught it/spread it were the jetsetting elite class. By the time they figured out that covid isn't serious if you're rich since you can a) quarantine in your mansion and b) get access to ridiculously experimental but effective drug cocktails like that antibody shot Trump got, they started lifting lockdowns and covid became no big deal.
Yeah I was thinking that too. Rich people are pretty safe from covid due to access to better health, so they don't give as much of a shit.
Yea it really feels like no one gives a shit which is just jarring. Everyone wants us to shut up and just go back to work like nothing ever happened
The mass trauma of Covid is going to be terrible. Capitalists in the USA are already talking about work shortages, did they forget that close to 1 million USA citizens died from Covid 19 when taking into account excess deaths, and that millions more have some form of long Covid or disability caused by Covid that prevents them from working most jobs. And that the pandemic effected the working class disproportionately. Like there's a connection they refuse to acknowledge, because doing so would mean they've maimed millions with their policies of "back to work/normal"
Nah it's wasn't Pandemic, I know that one. It was different. fair enough though, some of these things aren't new.
I don't know, maybe I am overreacting but honestly, I find this whole covid thing terrifying.
Because 9/11 can be milked as a casus belli for America to went on a rampage anywhere of their choosing for the next 20 years.
Meanwhile, the pandemic demonstrates that the neoliberal world order is completely unfit in handling any crisis more severe than someone shitting in a supermarket aisle.
Plague. Inc: Evolved
TIME PLAYED LAST TWO WEEKS: 24.6 hours
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Nah, Plague inc is good. I mostly mean stuff being released now.
There was a well-reviewed cooperative board game, named PANDEMIC, that has been around since 2008. They made many spinoff PANDEMIC board games that were similarly well-liked. The board game that you saw in stores might have been around for over a decade.
Capitalism creates and perpetuates more then enough trauma all on it's own surely. Poverty itself is a conga line of trauma.
Well I find the pendulum doesn't like to be pulled too far in one direction. ;)
9/11 is an event seared into the brain of a lot of people, almost everyone I know my self included can remember exactly where they were when it happened. While covid has had a massively higher death toll for many people it hasn't been a really tragic event, just a long shitty life experience. It's it going to leave us all traumatized? Absolutely. But a pandemic is now a cultural event that everyone can relate too that can be capitalized on with out triggering enough people to cause a backlash big enough to effect profits.
Also what everyone else said about 9/11 effecting rich dudes while covid only effects the dirty poor's.
Yeah, that's what I mean. With 9/11 they would have delayed or cancelled that.
I seem to remember a firefighting one getting cancelled but it was like 20 years ago so I might be misremembering. I was like 9 at the time so maybe I have it wrong lol.
