Was reading this post and was absolutely terrified. It's gonna be bad.
Take away is that current lock downs are basically useless against the new strain as it has mutated enough to be more transmissible thru/around mask. Vaccines are still likely to work, and its not more deadly (seems like), but just going to blow thru our preventive measures like nothing.
Reposting because the first post didn't get enough traction and I need people to commiserate with me. Pulled out the money shot image, because I know libs don't read .
I'm convinced this is deliberate. There's no fucking way this was fucked up this bad on accident. The ruling class allowed and continues to allow the virus to spread unhindered because it is killing the sick, the old, and the poor. It's weeding out the people that aren't top producers. It's intentional, deliberate genocide and nothing can convince otherwise anymore.
It was deliberate insofar as the effective methods of handling the virus, e.g. the methods that perhaps China and Vietnam imposed, all undercut their bottom line. Also the virus makes poverty that much more threatening, so the coercion to work in terrible conditions for low wages has become that much tighter around the average person's neck. win-win for the rulers in the short-term, probably bad for them long-term
Point I might be trying to express is it doesn't matter if mass death was the goal or not. The bourgeoisie following their unfettered material interests would have resulted in the same decisions even if they had humane intentions. They may have believed in an optimistic outcome for humanity down in their hearts somewhere, but the fun part is the purity of their souls doesn't matter. They are genocidal tyrants by virtue wielding mass amounts of private capital and the conclusions from that position.
Well put
Yeah, I agree. I don't know if this was on purpose, but they are clearly fine with it. After all, why try to fix something that you've made billions and billions of dollars because of
They just don't care.
What you're seeing now is a return to how life was before the post-World War 2 welfare state. Rolling epidemics of disease, that killed the working class primarily due to lack of public infrastructure, were just a fact of life.
Winter comes? Welp, it's grandma's time to go, she got the Fever. Bugs are bad in the summer? Welp, some kids are gonna get malaria (which was widespread in the US until the 30s....). That's Capitalism!
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