https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1430184119749681153?t=nlLy24ba5AG35NqLHeGibw&s=19
The tweet has already been sufficiently dunked on, but it's just too mind-numbingly dumb I can't ignore it. What happens to a person's brain to make them forget the AIDS crisis, or the story of Typhoid Mary, or idk, most diseases?
He's right, although I don't know if it's for the right reasons. Fixating on individual recalcitrance distracts from the systemstic failures at the root of the US failed pandemic response. The widespread distrust of a free vaccine and/or disbelief that it's really free, for example, is a belief beaten into the American poor by the privatized health system. Not to mention the abortive attempts at lockdowns that were met with fury by businesses (and some workers, to be fair) that lose out in that scenario, as well as all the treat-dependent hogs.
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Oh noooo, the feds will see how boring and routine my empty life is!
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you are allowed to be mad about individual people and the systemic reason this pandemic has been so badly mishandled.
Sure but it's good to remember that this is the oldest trick in the book, taking systematic failures directly resulting from the work of the capitalist class and making them solely a matter of individual responsibility.
Also finding ways to offload the systemic failure to minority and marginalized communities. Ken Paxton blamed unvaccinated African Americans and Gregg Abbott has been blaming Mexicans at the border, for covid surges.