AMERICA IS A FAILED STATE. IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR CAPITAL HOW IS IT NOT HAPPENING
I think about this shit all the damn time. I was a big WWII nerd as a kid (oh who am I kidding, I still am) and then 9/11 happened and I watched them try to play it off as being as significant as Pearl Harbor (it would end up being as large or even bigger, but just because of what we made of it, not because of the substance and aftermath of the actual attack) and I remember sitting there as a teenager and thinking "wait this doesn't feel right."
Then we declare war on terror and start a forever war. Yet, we have no victory gardens. Hell, the price of gas spikes, but there is no attempt to ration it. There's no shortages of items in stores, even the rare items are fulled stocked, to say nothing of the common household staples. America was the eye of the hurricane. Inside, everything was placid. Again, I was watching this unfold and I just had this thought humming in my head insisting "wait, this doesn't feel right."
America waging war now versus America waging war in WWII is like comparing a sport hunter to a subsistence hunter. Yeah we're both shooting at the deer but modern America will drag it to a truck and throw it in the bed and drive home while America under FDR would have eaten the organs and started drying the lean cuts to last the winter.
It was really weird an alienating. I kept saying things like "if I didn't watch TV I wouldn't even know we were at war" because it was true! The most tangible thing I experienced was dealing with increased traffic because the W Bush administration closed down lots of smaller military bases and consolidated them in larger "Joint Bases" and I happened to live close enough to one of those that the freeway would get clogged to shit during rush hour because thousands of troops were getting into their Dodge Chargers at the same time.
I made this point before. People love to point to the WWII generation as being the greatest generation or “when men were men”.
Seeing them flip out over not be able to drink every weekend is hilarious when they invoke that generation all the time.
There aren’t many moments in American history that I feel proud of but the Great Depression and WWII era when people understood the danger of fascism and organized militant labor unions during the Great Depression really make me proud.
Time to go full Epstein brain and say that the big drug companies are faking their production issues so they can slow-roll the vaccines, creating the opportunity for the pandemic to mutate into something that requires a totally different vaccine that they will then sell.
full Epstein brain probably involves there being his cum in the vaccine
full epstein brain: slow rolling the vaccine so they can play with their shares for a long time
Always just look for the most evil answers and they are probably at least partially true.
I think they are opportunistically reducing the number of social security recipients
The ultra wealthy are getting far richer scooping up small businesses and landlord operations, the poor and particularly the unhealthy and old (who require more government assistance) are dying and saving the state money, and they get to continue making money off of testing , stealing bailout money, etc., among other things.
Why on earth would they want to put a serious effort into stopping it? It honestly benefits a lot of them.
My dad was eligible and opted out because covid "isn't even dangerous." Just in case you were wondering if dumbass right wingers working in health care could still possibly be in denial this late in the game
Holy fuck. How has he gotten this far and like "oh I'll be fine." Is he in the only hospital where no healthcare worker has died form it or something?
There is 1 (one) single solitary vaccine rollout location in the city of Boston. It's on the C line and takes 45 minutes on public transit from downtown. It has no available appointments through the end of February.
I am carpooling with coworkers to get it at Gillette, I guess, because sitting in a car with two other people for 45 minutes sounds like a fantastic fucking idea. Though I guess I work in close proximity with them, so does it really matter? IDK, I just want the vaccine.
Somerville, MA (the most densely populated area on the east coast outside of NYC) has 0 (zero) locations for vaccination. Which sounds like a great fucking idea, I guess.
Try don't care if the poor die. We are only consumers. All the laborers are over seas.
This is the biggest mystery for me. During world wars they turned every factory into a bullet factory. Why isn't every factory a vaccine factory? Probly because it's not profitable for whatever reason.
Markets represent the anarchy of production. Just because something would be good for capital doesn't mean that there is any coordination between capitalists to help them realize such a vision.
Directly meeting working class needs would set a terrible precedent and would also interrupt thousands of grifts.
It sounds like a prisoner's dilemma. Probably like being the first to offer of factory capacity loses market share or something. So that two rational actors will always rather deal with a pandemic than agree to fight it.
Rational, of course, if you only think about the money line and ignore 100% externalities like a fucking pandemic.
Over 2 million deaths from it in just over a year isn't a big deal? Millions more permanently injured isn't a big deal?
