Goddamn this shit is so telling. In the absence of any government-led public health response to a pandemic, masks are such an obvious preventative measure to home in on, and she has to be getting coached on deliberately not mentioning them at all. Advocating washing hands before masks--where are we, at the beginning of the pandemic again?

I'm so jaded by all the callousness. At this point, I and am more or less completely on board with the idea that our overlords have no financial incentive to put an end to this pandemic and are in fact trying to perpetuate this pandemic because

• they don't give a shit about the social murder of society's most vulnerable since they deem them as worthless anyways and less able to be exploited for profit
• there has been a huge transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthy already since the start of the pandemic, i.e. disaster capitalism 101
• the enduring nature of COVID and the ways in which it continues to mutate is a opportunity for more permanent profit streams for vaccines, treatments, and tests, especially once those things become completely commercialized starting next year
• the endless cycle of getting infected and having acute infections that need medication/treatment/hospital care can be expensive as fuck for people. :porky-happy: And also, millions of people with long COVID are going to need treatment. :porky-happy:

Even if it's not actually deliberate and only sheer stupidity/myopia/hubris, the disastrous outcomes are the same regardless.