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That's still not comforting. People can see if you're wearing your wristband or not; unlike a phone. This disease has leaders treating human beings like we're
by djsumdog 7y ago
That's still not comforting. People can see if you're wearing your wristband or not; unlike a phone.
This disease has leaders treating human beings like we're gears in a machine; or machines that can be turned on and off. >25million unemployed Americans who are burning through months of savings, with unpaid bills and rent and mortgage due, begs to differ.
Humanity cannot be turned off an put in storage. Maybe in the EU there is relief and good social welfare systems. In a lot of the world, there isn't. And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts. Some of them might be sure, but some of them have also been in food bank lines for hours and are wondering how they are going to survive without an income for another month.
We are suffering form two diseases. The first one is the virus killing people. The second one is ever measure without forethought leading to the suffering of the poor, increasing poverty and eroding our basic civil liberties.
This disease has shown our leaders don't see us as people. They claim they care about our lives, but they only really care that people are alive.
- wbl 7y agoTaiwan, South Korea and New Zealand have all had effective responses to the pandemic that haven't required lockdowns. It's just that the West doesnt believe in survival masks and didn't make them, and can't figure out how to find and isolate cases.
- djsumdog 7y agoI know personally that's not true about NZ. My ex is immune compromised and they have "Levels" there (L0, L1, etc.) and she most likely won't be able to leave her place for another two months. Another kiwi I worked with sent me a video of walking through an empty Wellington. It's a small nation, 4 million people, plus ACC (health care) and solid unemployment for all, so it's much easier for them to cope. It's also easier for them to close the country, as it is a set of islands. The friend who did that walk said it was still Orwellian though.
- wbl 7y agoThey are about to have complete elimination of the virus.
- im3w1l 7y agoIf worst comes to worst you can wear a fake wristband. But yeah.
- beamatronic 7y ago>> they only really care that people are alive. They care in the same way that farmers care about their sheep being alive...
- vzidex 7y ago> And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts. Except ... they are? From what I've seen the protestors are all for increased policed powers (Thin Blue Line type supporters), just not when it applies to _them_ - i.e. now.
- djsumdog 7y agoThat's why I really want to go to one with a camera. I want to know what's not being reported. I know from the DNC/RNC protests every election year, they are nothing like what people see on TV.