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.
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"