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There's a vocal subset of people here who like to act as if Covid is still the same threat it was five years ago. The pandemic is over, because Covid is endemic now. It just always is there. Like the common flu was before Covid. And the Covid variants these days are very much on a similar level to the flu. Trying to build some conspiratorial narrative out of that makes you sound insane.
Upvoting you because I agree that some voices need to process the shift to endemic.
But I also agree with the tweet that low cost systematic changes should still be underway to lower overall viral burden, or soften the blow of the next pandemic.
I don’t know if HEPA filters in public institutions is actually effective, so I suppose the argument hinges on that; is there actually low hanging fruit like that?
Oh, I agree with that too! That should just be a normal thing, enabling kids to still learn together with their peers. I was so damn glad when the restrictions were lifted, because I saw the awful effect social segregation was having on my kids. For offices, remote work should be a right for any job where it's possible and not something out feudal lords have to grant.
911 = never forget Covid = die for the economy Trump 2nd Term = who cares about the economy anyway?
I think I have whiplash at this piont.
I see the point but I do want to remind the infrequent fliers that you can bring nail clippers on planes now, and you've been able to for a long time.
Family occasionally visits and asks if they can borrow clippers when they arrive and im like "sure, but you can just bring your own." Like what, are you going to hijack a plane with toe nail clippers!?
If someone can hijack a plane with nail clippers, they can do it without the nail clippers.
Last time I've flown with my swiss army knife. They checked the blade length at the metal gates, all ok.
I have this thing called a Utili-Key which is a little multi-tool and knife that folds up into a key shape that goes on your keyring. I've flown with it multiple times without TSA noticing, but I had to get rid of it when I went to see a Philadelphia 76ers game. Nothing could be more TSA than a fucking basketball game being more secure than a flight.
I accidentally brought wire cutters in my carry on before boarding a flight in Florida. They measured the blade length and laughed and let me through, after I immediately told them they could throw them away. Then during my trip I forgot all about them. When I went to board my return flight the person immediately confiscated them.
the fact that a post like this still has people in the comments acting like COVID is in the past and 1k ppl in the US alone aren't dying of it every week. COVID literally hasn't gone anywhere all of you have just closed your eyes to the consequences of your actions.
19k people die in us yearly just because they use a gas cooker.
Dont look up how many die per year from regular flu. Covid is over and its a small disease like any other now.
Airport strip searches allow oppression of the people by the government.
Mask mandates do not.
Seems like the shared trait is "what's good for the ownership class, in the most selfish short term sense?"
9/11 brought billions of money to the rich and was a good excuse to arm the government to better oppress the working class.
Covid was the same.
I dont see your problem. /s
What I'm trying to say is all of this is just a way to maximize power at the top, always has been.
Please join unions and vote left.
except most unions aren't doing shit for covid workplace safety. that doesn't mean unions are bad, just ignorant
I agree. Regular unions arent my personal favorite either.
But that is why you can choose where to go and which union to join.
Try and join a base democratic union and watch your decisions be the only things that are done.
Our problem isnt that unions dont do our bidding. It is that we dont support those that do and that is by design. We're taught from a young age to not express our thoughts and wishes, to stay calm in the face of injustice. Of course people are angry and desperate.
I suggest you read about subversive groups and what is happening around the world in terms of turning these things around.
Unions would do that if more people who cared about it joined unions and pushed for it. Unions only work if you're actively doing stuff in them. It's democracy, it only works so long as you partake.
OK, let's say I'm disabled and I wanna partake in said democracy. I show up to the union meeting and everyone is unmasked, there's no air filtration or ventilation. am I just supposed to put myself at risk of infection until the union members get their shit together? that might take months to years during which I can't afford to be repeatedly reinfected.
this is not hypothetical, I've been part of multiple leftist spaces where my only options are to leave or to put myself at risk of harassment when I hand everyone N95s because I'm being "pushy".
Mm. You're describing someone very dear to me, because of whom I wear an n95 mask every day.
People you describe fight an uphill battle, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. They can ask for accommodations, but a lot of people won't meet them. Meetings can be held digitally, of course, and one can advocate for oneself digitally as well. In time they can hope to win allies, and with them also get advocates that are willing to help amplify their voice.
I'm sorry, but I don't have any good solutions. The world is neither kind or fair, the best we can hope for is to build communities with people that empathise and see us.
I wish you the very best.
I'm glad you understand, thanks for the reply.
I'm also glad you reached the point I wanted to make, that people like me become extremely cynical when unions are brought up as a solution because even with digital access we're still seen as second class members. they're not gonna invest as many resources in the digital meetings because there's no incentive to
I think it'd be hard not to get cynical when in such a situation. It's why it's so important to amplify the voices of marginalised people and bring them into the fold, they have needs as a society we need to see to them. It really shouldn't be that hard. Unfortunately a lot of people don't realise that being healthy and able-bodied is a temporary state, and at some point or other we're all going to need some form of support.
We all benefit from ensuring it's there.
Don't forget to remove your shoes before being allowed to the boarding area.
The 9/11 attacks were a reason to send troops to the middle east. COVID was not.
The 9/11 attacks were a reason to send troops to the middle east.
And roll back personal freedoms, which contrasts greatly with the hub-bub so many people made about their "personal freedom" to cough all over people without consequence.
Missed opportunity to start a total war on the pangolins (or bats or whatever it was)
I'm joining the war on bats.
On the side of drugs.
A Batman villain in the making!
~~reason~~ excuse to send troops to the Middle East.
Even worse, the attackers were from the Middle East, but the US sent troops into Asia, to Afghanistan.
a virus “hurt” and scared capitalists far more than some planes did; war is profit, pandemic is not.
that can't be true since then they'd do more to prevent future pandemics no?
would “they”? I mean eventually a pandemic becomes profitable by proxy; a thinned and sick labor pool with shit healthcare (USA) will work for a fraction of what they would before, just to not end up homeless or worse.
Traumatic event > emotion > propagandized media response > wealth being funneled towards capitalists
Y'all need the get on the sigma grindset, when tragedy strikes, don't get sad, don't emotionally process, just figure out how you can use it to manipulate people and make money
/s
pro tip: manufacture both tragedy and consent for the war in response! now we’re cookin’ with gas!
Brown people are scarier than an invisible virus.
Boo!
AAGHHH