Everyone I talk to thinks a vaccine is about to come out and that will be a miracle-cure-all and everything will just go back to normal. Even if a vaccine happened tomorrow, this pandemic has proven that the US healthcare industry is not set up to deal with something like this. Who knows if the vaccine will even be affordable let alone if it actually works? It would probably take over a year to properly distribute a vaccine and god knows if anyone could afford it who is not rich, or taking into account all the anti-vaccine people (a chuck of the population is just going to refuse it outright). None of this is counting the economical apocalypse. I lost my job back in May and have struggled ever since. So many jobs lost, so many businesses shut down that aren't going to magically come back with a vaccine.
The virus has become so normalized that people are getting desensitized to all the deaths. They are just statistics at this point. I 100% expect some time next year after Biden enters office, liberals will be screaming about how the people who are dying are just STUPID STUPID STUPID and accuse all of them of not wearing masks. He don't even support any economical relief or lockdowns, so it's going to escalate so bad next year while everyone around me is still yelling about a vaccine.
At this point I have completely given up. I have zero hope and know if I catch it with my pre-existing medical condition, I will likely be dead. I expect all of this to continue to escalate and we will be in a great depression some time next year. This virus has been 100% proof of how fucking evil our ruling class is and the government that they control. Instead of holding them accountable, people here just blame victims for being stupid and not wearing masks, or they hope that a vaccine will magically appear out of the fucking blue.
For one, it's hyper normalization. Just like in Adam Curtis' film, as the soviet union was collapsing economically, everybody knew it. But, nobody knew what to do about it. So if the leader said "go about business as usual", then that's what a lot of people did. We have no alternative that makes sense to enough people for it to become a thing.
And second, airports should stop the TSA checkpoints now. What's the point? To stop another 9/11? That's just three days worth of covid deaths. Put that department to better use. How about taking people's temperatures when they enter the airport instead. Airplanes are being flown with no empty seats. The numbers are so high because people are catching it everywhere. They're getting it on planes, in schools, in restaurants, at work. Our organized efforts to stop this are pathetic to non-existent.
The US has spent the past 40 years defunding, deregulating and privatizing every industry it has ever had that offered safety nets. The pillars of neoliberalism. As a result of getting rid of everything, they just up the military, police and security budgets. We could easily have healthcare by cutting a chunk of the military's inflated budget but that will never happen.
. Just like in Adam Curtis’ film, as the soviet union was collapsing economically, everybody knew it.
For some reason I don't see this enough. Y'know, a lot of analysts in the 70's and 80's thought that the US and USSR were starting to look very similar in how they operated. That idea was "disproven" when the USSR collapsed but honestly I think that it was correct, we just had some more gas in the tank to keep on keeping on for a bit longer but I think we're gonna go down the same way
True to a degree. Both sides lied about the USSR being socialist. The soviets, because it was popular amongst their people; and the Americans because it was not popular. (Credit to chomsky.)
We don't even need a TSA at this point. Why is anyone flying besides critical work, where you can easily just do extra screening anyway? That's a prime example of a state organization that could have been re-directed for 3-4 weeks to actually deliver food to people or do other shit back in March/April to get a hold on things.
I want a vaccine as badly as anyone, but I’m at the point I’m almost pissed off at the news every day on the newest “promising vaccines” because it really is giving everyone false hope and making them act less safe 😔
The Pfizer vaccine made a lot of news where I live, but not one mainstream report about the CEO selling off over 60% of his stocks after it was announced, or the fact they've provided very little evidence that it works in all age groups and with people like me who have pre-existing medical condition.
A vaccine is not going to bring the jobs back either. That's what a lot of people fail to understand. This an economical apocalypse. We could've at least used some kind of relief fund to help workers who are struggling, but congress wasted most of the year pointing fingers back and forth and not wanting to do anything for us. Biden will come in next year and push austerity and probably give us tax credits at the expense of completely his lifelong career dream of defunding social security.
Or that it only works at really extreme levels iirc so transportation will be difficult.
And sadly until the economic issues affect them, people won’t care that a lot of people are unemployed now sadly. They may sympathize with all the deaths and etc and may outwardly sympathize with workers struggling, but they won’t see it as a big issue in their minds. At least the people I interact with :(
I've already been told "well, just get a job as an essential worker". I'm sure that will be what we're told more often next year.
The next far right reactionary movement that comes out of these economic conditions and as a backlash to Biden, is going to be worse than anything we've ever seen before.
So fucking depressing.
Everyone I talk to thinks a vaccine is about to come out and that will be a miracle-cure-all and everything will just go back to normal. Even if a vaccine happened tomorrow, this pandemic has proven that the US healthcare industry is not set up to deal with something like this. Who knows if the vaccine will even be affordable let alone if it actually works? It would probably take over a year to properly distribute a vaccine and god knows if anyone could afford it who is not rich, or taking into account all the anti-vaccine people (a chuck of the population is just going to refuse it outright). None of this is counting the economical apocalypse. I lost my job back in May and have struggled ever since. So many jobs lost, so many businesses shut down that aren't going to magically come back with a vaccine.
The virus has become so normalized that people are getting desensitized to all the deaths. They are just statistics at this point. I 100% expect some time next year after Biden enters office, liberals will be screaming about how the people who are dying are just STUPID STUPID STUPID and accuse all of them of not wearing masks. He don't even support any economical relief or lockdowns, so it's going to escalate so bad next year while everyone around me is still yelling about a vaccine.
At this point I have completely given up. I have zero hope and know if I catch it with my pre-existing medical condition, I will likely be dead. I expect all of this to continue to escalate and we will be in a great depression some time next year. This virus has been 100% proof of how fucking evil our ruling class is and the government that they control. Instead of holding them accountable, people here just blame victims for being stupid and not wearing masks, or they hope that a vaccine will magically appear out of the fucking blue.
For one, it's hyper normalization. Just like in Adam Curtis' film, as the soviet union was collapsing economically, everybody knew it. But, nobody knew what to do about it. So if the leader said "go about business as usual", then that's what a lot of people did. We have no alternative that makes sense to enough people for it to become a thing.
And second, airports should stop the TSA checkpoints now. What's the point? To stop another 9/11? That's just three days worth of covid deaths. Put that department to better use. How about taking people's temperatures when they enter the airport instead. Airplanes are being flown with no empty seats. The numbers are so high because people are catching it everywhere. They're getting it on planes, in schools, in restaurants, at work. Our organized efforts to stop this are pathetic to non-existent.
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The US has spent the past 40 years defunding, deregulating and privatizing every industry it has ever had that offered safety nets. The pillars of neoliberalism. As a result of getting rid of everything, they just up the military, police and security budgets. We could easily have healthcare by cutting a chunk of the military's inflated budget but that will never happen.
We're headed towards collapse indeed.
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For some reason I don't see this enough. Y'know, a lot of analysts in the 70's and 80's thought that the US and USSR were starting to look very similar in how they operated. That idea was "disproven" when the USSR collapsed but honestly I think that it was correct, we just had some more gas in the tank to keep on keeping on for a bit longer but I think we're gonna go down the same way
The CIA had a big incentive to exaggerate the "threat" of the USSR in order to continue to justify their mission.
True to a degree. Both sides lied about the USSR being socialist. The soviets, because it was popular amongst their people; and the Americans because it was not popular. (Credit to chomsky.)
We don't even need a TSA at this point. Why is anyone flying besides critical work, where you can easily just do extra screening anyway? That's a prime example of a state organization that could have been re-directed for 3-4 weeks to actually deliver food to people or do other shit back in March/April to get a hold on things.
I want a vaccine as badly as anyone, but I’m at the point I’m almost pissed off at the news every day on the newest “promising vaccines” because it really is giving everyone false hope and making them act less safe 😔
The Pfizer vaccine made a lot of news where I live, but not one mainstream report about the CEO selling off over 60% of his stocks after it was announced, or the fact they've provided very little evidence that it works in all age groups and with people like me who have pre-existing medical condition.
A vaccine is not going to bring the jobs back either. That's what a lot of people fail to understand. This an economical apocalypse. We could've at least used some kind of relief fund to help workers who are struggling, but congress wasted most of the year pointing fingers back and forth and not wanting to do anything for us. Biden will come in next year and push austerity and probably give us tax credits at the expense of completely his lifelong career dream of defunding social security.
Or that it only works at really extreme levels iirc so transportation will be difficult.
And sadly until the economic issues affect them, people won’t care that a lot of people are unemployed now sadly. They may sympathize with all the deaths and etc and may outwardly sympathize with workers struggling, but they won’t see it as a big issue in their minds. At least the people I interact with :(
I've already been told "well, just get a job as an essential worker". I'm sure that will be what we're told more often next year.
The next far right reactionary movement that comes out of these economic conditions and as a backlash to Biden, is going to be worse than anything we've ever seen before.
Every year will be worse than the previous one from now on
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