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.
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.