Of course, the arrival of COVID five years ago merely accelerated and facilitated existing trends of inequality, commodification and ownership consolidation of housing and agriculture (and everything else). It spurred massive geopolitical shifts, a class of increasingly precarious workers drawn from what was once a heartier middle class, the rise of tech authoritarianism and proto-fascism along with old-fashioned xenophobia, and the decline in public health and the scientific literacy, interest, trust and funding that support it. Perhaps most of all, these trends include acceptance of mass death, and of huge suffering among one identifiable group after another.
Masks off: The lessons we didn’t learn from COVID | Salon.com
She is a true believer that the spread of Covid was solvable and preventable, if only we were more politically correct and enabled public health to be more authoritarian (while railing against authoritarianism).
After a long bit of whining, the story teller behind the above has no sustainable, workable solutions – it’s Elon Musk’s fault. Or Trump’s fault. Or the stupid people in the world.
She writes mostly scary headlines that we are all going to die, and should be living in fear. Unless we had more authoritarian technocratic elite experts with all the answers, precisely guiding us in how to live our lives.
