President Biden will announce a new rule Thursday from the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to require all private employers with 100 or more employees
y'know considering all the antivaxx and lolbertarian sentiment
the major contenders are finance capital and the industries that it is invested in. amazon has reasons to want the pandemic to end, namely that supply chains are seeing major disruptions that are getting worse fast. for instance, they need trucks to deliver goods: most truck parts are made outside the US and cannot be obtained because of covid disruptions. just one example.
i'd say it's probably 80% of capital that wants to end the pandemic through scientific and technological means, and 20% who want to go back to business as usual by ignoring it and letting people just die. capital always uses technology to solve it's crises, which always end up creating new crises.
A little birdy told me supply chains are a fucking disaster right now. As in, people getting sent the wrong shipments, WITH a delay. Getting expired goods, not getting delivieries etc.
I heard rumors on the internet but I've seen it first hand now
The supply chain issues are bigger than Covid. There's supply chain issues because the combo of the pandemic and the massive stimulus payments meant that a lot of people retired early and a lot of mothers left the workforce.
People still have that safety cushion of savings, and they've learned to spend less money on crap, so they aren't in a rush to get back to work. Even if Covid magically disappeared, they wouldn't just go find a job, especially the early retirees. It's only going to get worse because the big end of the Baby Boom is in their late 50s/early 60s right now.
the major contenders are finance capital and the industries that it is invested in. amazon has reasons to want the pandemic to end, namely that supply chains are seeing major disruptions that are getting worse fast. for instance, they need trucks to deliver goods: most truck parts are made outside the US and cannot be obtained because of covid disruptions. just one example.
i'd say it's probably 80% of capital that wants to end the pandemic through scientific and technological means, and 20% who want to go back to business as usual by ignoring it and letting people just die. capital always uses technology to solve it's crises, which always end up creating new crises.
A little birdy told me supply chains are a fucking disaster right now. As in, people getting sent the wrong shipments, WITH a delay. Getting expired goods, not getting delivieries etc.
I heard rumors on the internet but I've seen it first hand now
The supply chain issues are bigger than Covid. There's supply chain issues because the combo of the pandemic and the massive stimulus payments meant that a lot of people retired early and a lot of mothers left the workforce.
People still have that safety cushion of savings, and they've learned to spend less money on crap, so they aren't in a rush to get back to work. Even if Covid magically disappeared, they wouldn't just go find a job, especially the early retirees. It's only going to get worse because the big end of the Baby Boom is in their late 50s/early 60s right now.