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"The US government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic sure has been similar to
its handling of climate change, huh? Just accelerated to play out over the
course of only a few years, as opposed to several decades (if we’re lucky).
You can really see the parallels when you look at it in partisan terms. On one
side of the military-industrial capitalist duopoly, you have Republicans, whose
leadership mostly had to be dragged kicking and screaming to even recognize the
danger’s existence, then began downplaying it once it became impossible to
ignore; all the while displaying open distrust or outright hostility towards
science, and peddling so much misinformation and deranged conspiracy theory
that now the main disagreement between members of their voter base seems to be
over whether there’s any crisis at all, or whether the crisis was deliberately
engineered by Jews, black people, Mexicans, and/or the Chinese as part of some
nefarious plot to curtail “muh freedoms!”
On the other side, you have the Democrats, once again depending on their
long-held strategy of standing next to their uglier friend in order to look
better by comparison, and even then somehow managing to look worse when it
comes to certain details. Sure, they “trust the science,” but what good is that
if they still don’t do everything the science says must be done in order to
prevent (or at least mitigate) existential catastrophe? There isn’t a
functional difference between half a bridge or no bridge at all to the person
whose life depends on getting over a massive gorge.
Surrounding both sides are mounds of the dead, sacrifices to the
corporate-friendly people-mulcher that prints money on paper made from flesh
with ink made of blood; the human cost of both parties’ miserable failure to
adequately address either problem."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: April 6, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-81117543
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
